Title 26, Title 26: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:4-69. Expenditure of appropriations The State department shall expend such sums as shall be annually appropriated for the study, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. Amended by L.1977, c. 63, s. 7, eff. April 15, 1977.

26:4-70. Rules and regulations by state department; distribution of copies; enforcement The State department shall make rules and regulations for the care of persons suffering with tuberculosis, and for preventing the spread of the disease. The State department shall enforce the …

26:4-71. Investigation of reported cases When cases of tuberculosis are reported to the state department as required by law, the state department and the local boards shall investigate such cases for the purpose of ascertaining whether the rules and regulations of the state depar…

26:4-71.3 Person with communicable tuberculosis leaving hospital against medical advice; report. 3. If any person who has tuberculosis in a communicable form shall leave any hospital against medical advice, the administrator shall report such person to the local board of health o…

26:4-73. Duty to report to local board Whenever one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen or reddened, or show any unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, and no licensed practitioner of medicine is in attendance upon the infant at the time,…

26:4-74. Compulsory treatment Upon receipt of such report the local board shall direct the parents or persons having charge of such infant to place the infant immediately under the care of a licensed physician, or under the care of the physician of the local municipal government …

26:4-75. Distribution of copies of law The local board shall furnish a copy of this article to every licensed physician, nurse, and midwife, and any other person deemed proper by the local board in the locality over which the board has jurisdiction, and the state department shall…

26:4-76. Free remedies The state department shall furnish, free of cost, to a licensed physician or midwife, any prophylactic remedy which it deems best for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum, together with instructions which it considers necessary for the proper administrat…

26:4-77. Violations; penalty; recovery Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) to be recovered in a civil action by the local board of the municipality in which the violation occurs. Amended by L.1953, c…

26:4-78. Report of suspected cases of rabies Whenever a dog, cat or other animal is affected by rabies or suspected of being affected by rabies or has been bitten by an animal known or suspected to be affected by rabies, the owner or person in charge of the animal or any person h…

26:4-79. Report by physician attending person bitten by animal Every physician shall, within twelve hours after his first professional attendance upon any person bitten by a dog, cat or other animal, report to the person designated by law or by the local board, under authority of…

26:4-8.1. Immunization at public expense The State Department of Health and Local Boards of Health may provide at public expense, the necessary equipment, materials and services for immunizing people from the diseases which pupils are required to be immunized against by the State…

26:4-80. Report by parent or guardian when child is bitten and no physician attends The parent or guardian of a child bitten by a dog, cat or other animal, when no physician attends such child, shall within twelve hours after first having knowledge that the child was so bitten, r…

26:4-81. Report when adult is bitten and no physician attends If an adult is bitten by a dog, cat or other animal and no physician attends him, the adult, or if he is incapacitated, the person caring for him, shall report to the person designated by law or by the local board of h…

26:4-82. Confining animal which has attacked or bitten person The local board, within its jurisdiction, may serve notice upon the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal which has attacked or bitten a person, to confine the animal at the expense of the owner or pe…

26:4-83. Killing or confining animal bitten by another The local board, within its jurisdiction, shall serve a notice, in writing, upon the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal known or suspected to have been bitten by an animal known or suspected of being affe…

26:4-84. Confining animals to prevent spread of rabies Whenever the local board or any officer or inspector thereof has reason to believe or has been notified by the State Department that there is danger that rabies may spread within the jurisdiction of such board, such board, of…

26:4-85. Permit to release animals An animal confined under order of the local board shall not be released until a certificate of release has been issued by the board.

26:4-86. Examination of animals by local board 26:4-86. The local board or the duly authorized agent of the board, within its jurisdiction, shall be permitted by the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal which has attacked or bitten a person, to examine the anim…

26:4-86.1 Findings, declarations. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: pets are important in the lives of their owners and are often integral to the owner's well-being and emotional and mental health; a domestic companion animal, the term often used for a pet in State law,…

26:4-86.2 Rabies testing requirements; notifying owner, acknowledgement from owner. 2. a. Except as provided under subsection e. of this section, no rabies testing shall be performed on a dead domestic companion animal until the health official requiring the rabies testing, or th…

26:4-87. Local board to report prevalence of rabies Each local board shall furnish information to the state department concerning the prevalence of rabies within its jurisdiction whenever or as often as requested to do so by the state department.

26:4-88. Circular on rabies; distribution The state department shall prepare a circular containing a description of the symptoms, the methods of transmission, the treatment, and the preventive measures to be taken against the spread of rabies, and, upon application, shall provide…

26:4-89. Free Pasteur treatment Each local board may furnish without charge the Pasteur treatment for any indigent person, residing within its jurisdiction, who has been bitten by an animal known or suspected to be affected by rabies. Any expense thus incurred shall be provided f…

26:4-9. Epidemic in state institution Whenever an epidemic shall occur in an institution maintained in whole or in part by the state, the state department shall immediately take all necessary measures to check and control the epidemic.

26:4-94 Penalties; recovery. 26:4-94. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article, or any notice served thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for the first offense, and not less than $50 nor more than $250 for each subsequent offense, to be recovered i…

26:4-95. Powers of municipalities not affected Nothing in this article shall be construed to change or affect the provisions of any law authorizing the mayor or governing body of a municipality to enforce measures for the restriction and control of rabies.

26:4-95.1. Establishment and conduct of virology program; objectives The State Department of Health is hereby directed to establish and conduct a virology program having as its objectives: (a) the furnishing of services as may be necessary to establish the presence of virus disea…

26:4-95.2. Financing virology program The virology program shall be financed during the current fiscal year from any moneys available to the department. L.1958, c. 24, p. 74, s. 2.

26:4-95.3 Findings, declarations relative to HPV. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, and can be transmitted without intercourse; b. Although most HPV infections are …

26:4-95.4 Public awareness campaign about HPV. 3. a. The Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education and the Director of the Division on Women in the Department of Children and Families, shall establish a public awareness campaign to inform the gene…

26:4-96. Laboratory supplies The state department may prepare in the state bacteriological laboratory culture media, stains, solutions, cultures, cultural products, and other laboratory supplies which may be useful to the county or municipal laboratories, physicians, or pharmacis…

26:4-97. Disposition of receipts from sale of supplies All moneys received from the sale of such laboratory supplies shall be paid by the state department to the state treasurer and shall be added to the amount appropriated for the support of the bacteriological laboratory, and s…

26:4-98. Impure biological products; prohibiting sale or use of If the state department ascertains that any vaccine virus, antitoxin, or other biological product sold, or offered for sale, or held for sale or use for prophylactic or remedial purposes is dangerous to human health,…

26:4-99. Free distribution of toxoid and vaccine; appropriation The state department may purchase and distribute free, in accordance with rules of the department, diphtheria toxoid or toxin-antitoxin, or both, and smallpox vaccine. For the purchase and distribution of such materi…