Title 26, Title 26: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:4-16. Reporting of communicable diseases by house owner or householder Every house owner or householder who has reason to believe that any person living, dwelling or being in any building under his control is ill or infected with any disease required by law or the State Sanita…

26:4-17. Physicians to report persons affected with disease on dairy premises Every physician who shall attend any person ill or infected with any communicable disease required by law or the State Sanitary Code to be reported, on any premises where milk is produced for sale or di…

26:4-18. Report when member of family of sick person is employed on dairy premises Every physician who shall attend any person ill or infected with any of the communicable diseases required by law or the State Sanitary Code to be reported, having knowledge that a member of the fa…

26:4-19. Report of persons affected with communicable diseases in institutions Every physician, superintendent or other person having control or supervision over a State, county or municipal hospital, sanatorium or other public or private institution in which any person ill or in…

26:4-2 Powers of State department and local board. 26:4-2. In order to prevent the spread of disease affecting humans, the Department of Health, and the local boards of health within their respective jurisdictions and subject to the State sanitary code, shall have power to: a. De…

26:4-20. Transmission of duplicate of report from institutions in certain cases Every person designated by any local board of health to receive reports of communicable diseases who shall receive any report of sickness from a physician, superintendent or other person having charge…

26:4-21. Certificate of cases reported to local board On the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December in each year every physician, house owner or householder making any report of a communicable disease shall receive from the officer to whom the report was made …

26:4-22. Fee for cases reported to local board The certificate, when presented to the proper disbursing officer of the municipality within which the affected person may have been, shall entitle the person making the report to receive the sum of ten cents for each name certified t…

26:4-23. Register of reported cases; inspection The facts contained in the report of a communicable disease shall be entered by the officer to whom the report is delivered in a register kept for that purpose. The register shall be subject to the inspection of the local board and …

26:4-24. Reports of local boards to state department The officer to whom the report of a communicable disease is delivered and whose duty it is to make a record of the same, shall, at least once each week, and daily when required by the state department, transmit by mail the fact…

26:4-26. Fee for cases reported to state department Upon presentation of a certificate of the number of cases reported to the State Department pursuant to section 26:4-24 of the Revised Statutes at least once per year the officer shall be entitled to receive from the proper disbu…

26:4-27. Definitions As used in this article: "Venereal disease" includes syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale. "Treating a venereal disease" includes the treatment of or attempt to treat a venereal disease by prescription, formula, pat…

26:4-28. Venereal diseases declared infectious and communicable Syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale are hereby declared to be infectious and communicable diseases, dangerous to the public health. Amended by L.1945, c. 104, p. 448, s. 2…

26:4-29. Determination of infectiousness; review A case of venereal disease shall be regarded as infectious until a physician licensed to practice medicine has examined the case and reported to the local board that the case is not infectious, but if in the opinion of the local bo…

26:4-3. Evaluation of destroyed goods; reimbursement of owner Whenever the state department or a local board, in order to prevent the spread of communicable disease, destroys any goods, it shall make an inventory of the goods, and immediately certify the value of them. The certif…

26:4-30 Examination upon report from director. 26:4-30. When a local board or health officer receives a report from the director or from any person authorized by the director to make such report, that a person within the jurisdiction of the local board or health officer is, or is…

26:4-31. Duty of suspected person to be examined; sex of examining physician Any person requested by the local board or health officer to be examined under the authority of section 26:4-30 of this title shall submit to examination and permit necessary specimens of blood or bodily…

26:4-32. Prostitute; examination; certificate prohibited A prostitute or other lewd person shall be considered a suspected person within the meaning of section 26:4-30 of this title and may be required to submit to examination at any time. No certificate of freedom from venereal …

26:4-33. Discovery of sources of infection The local board shall use all reasonable means to ascertain the existence of any case of venereal disease within its jurisdiction. It shall investigate any case or suspected case that is not under the care of a reputable physician, and s…

26:4-34. Duty of attending physician The physician in attendance upon a person having an infectious venereal disease, or suspected of having such disease, shall instruct the person in the precautionary measures for preventing the spread of the disease and the necessity for system…

26:4-35 Examination and quarantine of infected person failing to report to attending physician. 26:4-35. If a person in the infectious stage of a sexually transmitted infection shall fail to report as directed to the physician in attendance for treatment, the physician shall repo…

26:4-36. Quarantine; persons who may be quarantined; duration; penalty Quarantine for venereal disease has the purpose of preventing transmission of venereal diseases and shall mean and include, restriction of the actions, behavior and movements of a person or confinement to a de…

26:4-37. Quarantine, restrictions, proceedings, report 26:4-37. In establishing quarantine for venereal disease, the licensed health officer or the State Commissioner of Health, or the authorized representative of either shall by notice in writing define the restriction of the ac…

26:4-38. Report of private cases to state department The physician, nurse, or other person treating a venereal disease shall report the case immediately to the state department.

26:4-39 Report of institutional cases to DOH. 26:4-39. The physician, superintendent, or other person having control or supervision over any State, county, or municipal hospital, or other public or private institution shall report the following cases to the Department of Health i…

26:4-4. Notice to local board to control disease; proceeding to compel action Whenever within the jurisdiction of a local board there is a person infected with any communicable disease, the State department may cause a notice in writing, signed by the Commissioner of Health, to b…

26:4-40. Contents of report The report required by sections 26:4-38 and 26:4-39 of this title shall contain the following information: a. Name, address, color, sex, nationality, and the age as nearly as practicable, of the person so infected with a venereal disease; b. Character …

26:4-41. Contents of reports secret; exceptions No person shall disclose the name or address or the identity of any person known or suspected to have a venereal disease except to the person's physician or to a health authority, or, in the event of a prosecution under this article…

26:4-46. Free treatment by local board Any person suffering from a venereal disease in the infectious stage and who is unable to pay for treatment may apply for care and treatment to the local board having jurisdiction of the place in which he resides. If the board after investig…

26:4-47. Free diagnosis and treatment by state department of health The State Department of Health may: a. Provide appropriate laboratory services for the diagnosis of sexually-transmitted diseases; b. Provide antibiotics and other appropriate drugs and biologicals for the treatm…

26:4-48. Rules and regulations; authority of State Director of Health as to quarantine or examination The State Department shall make and enforce any rule or regulation for the quarantining and treatment of a venereal disease which it may deem necessary for the protection of the …

26:4-48.1. Optional treatment of persons opposed to medical treatment on religious grounds In any quarantine for venereal disease or any commitment or court order imposed by authority of this act upon any person who, since immediately prior to the onset of the person's infection …

26:4-48.2 Expedited partner therapy. 1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a health care professional who diagnoses a patient as having a sexually transmitted disease may provide expedited partner therapy to a sexual partner of the patient pursuant to …

26:4-48.3 Informational materials. 2. a. The department shall develop and print written informational materials related to expedited partner therapy, in accordance with the provisions of this section, and shall regularly distribute an adequate supply of printed copies of the info…

26:4-48.4 Immunity from liability. 3. a. Except in the case of gross negligence or willful misconduct, a health care professional who provides expedited partner therapy pursuant to this act, and a licensed pharmacist who dispenses a prescription for medication issued for expedite…

26:4-49. Additional penalty for second offense In case a defendant shall have been twice convicted, within the space of six months, of the violation of the same provision of this article and due proof of such fact is made, the court may, in addition to the imposition of the penal…

26:4-49.1 Blood sample, syphilis testing for pregnant women. 1. Every physician attending pregnant women in the State for conditions relating to their pregnancy during the period of gestation and/or at delivery shall, in the case of every woman so attended, take or cause to be ta…

26:4-49.2. Standard serological test; duty of State Department of Health For the purpose of this act a standard serological test shall be a test for syphilis approved by the State Department of Health, and shall be made at a laboratory licensed in syphilis serology by the departm…

26:4-49.3 Statement of blood test in birth or stillbirth report. 3. In reporting every birth and stillbirth, physicians and others required to make such reports shall state on the certificate whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the …

26:4-49.4. Effective date This act shall take effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine. L.1938, c. 41, p. 117, s. 5.

26:4-49.5. Migrant laborers; definition For the purposes of this act "migrant laborer" shall mean any seasonal, temporary or migrant worker entering New Jersey and living in a tent, vehicle, building or structure used as living quarters directly or indirectly in connection with a…

26:4-49.6. Examination of migrant laborers; notice to State Department of Health Any migrant laborer who cannot show satisfactory evidence of examination for syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal diseases having been performed by a health department or licensed physician within …

26:4-49.7. Examination and treatment by order of court 1. When it appears to the Superior Court or to any municipal court, from the evidence or otherwise, that any person coming before such court on any charge, may have a venereal disease in an infectious stage, it shall be the d…

26:4-49.8. Examination and treatment for venereal disease of inmates of institutions The warden or other person in charge of any jail, house of correction, or other penal or correctional institution shall require and cause a medical examination for venereal diseases to be made of…

26:4-5. Closing public or private schools by reason of epidemic Each local board may declare any epidemic or cause of ill health to be so injurious or hazardous as to make it necessary to close any or all of the public or private schools within the jurisdiction of the board. No p…

26:4-57.1. Application for financial aid Any person declared by the department of health to be a carrier of the causative agent of typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or other disease the infective agent of which is transmissible through food to other persons may apply to the direct…