Title 26, Title 26: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:1A-81. Limitations on appropriations Limitations on appropriations to any of the boards or agencies enumerated in section four hereof, contained in any existing law, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this act, continue in full force and effect. L.1948, c. 444, p. 1753, …

26:1A-82. Transfer of employees of Crippled Children's Commission Such employees of the State Crippled Children's Commission, as the State Commissioner of Health may, after consultation with such commission, determine are needed for the proper performance of the work of such comm…

26:1A-83. Crippled Children's Commission appropriations transferred All appropriations available and to become available to the State Crippled Children's Commission are hereby transferred to the State Department of Health, and shall be available for the objects and purposes for w…

26:1A-84. Barber and beauty culture appropriations transferred All appropriations available and to become available to the State Board of Barber Examiners, and all appropriations available and to become available to the department of beauty culture control and to the board of bea…

26:1A-85. Civil Service, pension and retirement rights not affected Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any right or protection provided him by Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, Civil Service, or under any pension law or retirement system. L.1948, c. 4…

26:1A-86. Orders, rules and regulations not affected This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by any of the respective boards or agencies enumerated in section four of this act but such orders, rules and regulations shall continue…

26:1A-87. Pending actions or proceedings This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any of the respective boards or agencies enumerated in section four of this act and pending on the effective date hereof, and such actions or procee…

26:1A-88. Professional or occupational licenses not affected Nothing in this act shall affect the validity of any license, certificate of registration, or other authorization, heretofore issued to any person under any prior law, to practice any profession or to engage in any occu…

26:1A-89. Repeal All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed. L.1948, c. 444, p. 1756, s. 25.

26:1A-9. Force and effect of Code; enforcement; local regulations The provisions of the State Sanitary Code shall have the force and effect of law. Such code shall be observed throughout the State and shall be enforced by each local board of health, the local police authorities a…

26:1A-9.1. Exemption for pupils from mandatory immunization; interference with religious rights; suspension Provisions in the State Sanitary Code in implementation of this act shall provide for exemption for pupils from mandatory immunization if the parent or guardian of the pupi…

26:1A-90. Short title This act shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "State Department of Health Act of 1948." L.1948, c. 444, p. 1756, s. 26.

26:1A-91. Effective date This act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, except that any appointment, and any confirmation of any appointment, permitted by this act may be made prior to such date. L.1948, c. 444, p. 1756, s. 27.

26:1A-92. Prevention of Chronic Illness Act This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Prevention of Chronic Illness Act." L.1952, c. 102, p. 438, s. 1.

26:1A-93. Declaration of public policy The growing problem of prevention, detection and care of chronic illness, which is of such character as not to be exclusively medical, educational or welfare, has now reached such proportions in this State as to require the participation of …

26:1A-94. Division of Chronic Illness Control established in Department of Health There is hereby established within the Department of Health a Division of Chronic Illness Control for the prevention, early detection and control of chronic illness and rehabilitation of the chronic…

26:1A-95. Supervision; director The Division of Chronic Illness Control shall be under the immediate supervision of a director, who shall be a physician qualified in public health, and who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the State Commissioner of Health. L.1952…

26:1A-96. Duties of division The division shall administer and provide for the carrying out of the programs required to perform the general functions provided by this act to be performed by the State and for the carrying out of the general policies formulated by the Advisory Coun…

26:1A-97. State Department of Health; duties The State Department of Health shall within funds appropriated and available therefor be charged with the responsibility of carrying out the obligations herein assumed by the State as its share of the task of providing for prevention, …

26:2-100. Severability If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of this act shall be adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not invalidate, impair or affect the remainder of this act, which…

26:2-103.1 Findings, declarations relative to universal newborn hearing screening. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: Hearing loss occurs in newborns more frequently than any other health condition for which newborn screening is currently required. Moreover, early detect…

26:2-103.2 Definitions relative to universal newborn hearing screening. 2. As used in this act: "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health. "Department" means the Department of Health. "Electrophysiologic screening measures" means the electrical result of the application of …

26:2-103.3 Screening for hearing loss in all newborn children. 3. a. The commissioner shall ensure that, effective January 1, 2002, all newborn children in the State shall be screened for hearing loss by an appropriate electrophysiologic screening measure. b. Effective January 1,…

26:2-103.4 Hospital, birthing center to provide for newborn screening for hearing loss. 4. Every hospital that provides inpatient maternity services and every birthing center licensed in the State pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall be required to provide for ne…

26:2-103.5 Physician, midwife to advise parent of availability of newborn hearing screening. 5. In the case of a newborn born outside of a hospital or birthing center who is not transferred to a hospital or birthing center, the physician or midwife, licensed in this State pursuan…

26:2-103.6 Central registry of newborns at risk of hearing loss. 6. a. The commissioner shall establish a central registry of newborns identified as having or being at risk of developing a hearing loss. The information in the central registry shall be used for the purposes of com…

26:2-103.7 Screening, monitoring covered service. 7. The Commissioner of Human Services shall ensure that the newborn hearing screening and periodic monitoring of infants for delayed onset hearing loss required pursuant to this act is a covered service under the State Medicaid pr…

26:2-103.8 Hearing Evaluation Council. 8. The commissioner shall establish a Hearing Evaluation Council to provide on-going advice to the department on implementation of this act. The council shall be composed of not less than seven persons appointed by the commissioner who inclu…

26:2-103.9 Rules, regulations. 9. The commissioner, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act. L.2001,c.373,s.9.

26:2-104. Legislative findings and declaration The Legislature hereby finds and declares: a. That New Jersey is currently suffering from the highest overall mortality rates for cancer in the Nation; b. That certain forms of cancer are now believed to be attributable to environmen…

26:2-105 Establishment, maintenance of State cancer registry. 2. The Department of Health shall establish and maintain an up-to-date registry which shall include a record of cases of cancer and specified cases of tumorous or precancerous disease that occur in New Jersey, and such…

26:2-106 Reports; rules, regulations; enforcement. 3. a. The Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the Public Health Council, shall require the reporting of cases of cancer and other specified tumorous and precancerous diseases, and the submission of such specified additio…

26:2-107 Confidentiality of reports. 4. The reports made pursuant to this act are to be used only by the Department of Health and such other agencies as may be designated by the Commissioner of Health and shall not otherwise be divulged or made public so as to disclose the identi…

26:2-108 Immunity from liability for individuals, organizations providing information. 5. No individual or organization providing information to the Department of Health in accordance with this act shall be deemed to be, or held liable for, divulging confidential information. L.1…

26:2-109. Inapplicability of act to compel individual to submit to medical or health department examination or supervision Nothing in this act shall be construed to compel any individual to submit to medical or health department examination or supervision. L.1977, c. 266, s. 6.

26:2-110 Findings, declarations relative to screening for disorders in newborn infants. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Newborn screening is an essential public health activity that strives to screen every newborn infant for a variety of congenital disorders, which…

26:2-110a Newborn Screening Advisory Review Committee. 2. The Commissioner of Health shall establish a Newborn Screening Advisory Review Committee to annually review the disorders included in the Newborn Screening Program, screening technologies, treatment options, and educationa…

26:2-111 Newborn Screening Program; fees. 2. The Newborn Screening Program in the Department of Health shall screen all infants born in this State based on the list of disorders that is recommended by the Newborn Screening Advisory Review Committee and approved by the Commissione…

26:2-111.1 Option of additional screening for disorders in infant required; cost. 1. a. A health care provider shall give an infant's parent or guardian the option of consenting to the performance of testing by qualified laboratories for disorders in infants for which testing is …

26:2-111.10 Public awareness campaign established. 2. a. The Commissioner of Health shall establish a public awareness campaign to educate pregnant persons about cytomegalovirus (CMV) and cCMV and the value of early detection of, interventions for, and possible treatments for, CM…

26:2-111.2 HIV testing required for certain newborns. 4. a. The Commissioner of Health shall require each birthing facility in the State to administer to a newborn in its care a test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) if the HIV status of the mother of the newborn is unknown.…

26:2-111.3 Findings, declarations relative to newborn screening for congenital heart defects. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are structural abnormalities of the heart that are present at birth; CHDs range in severity from simple pro…

26:2-111.4 Birthing facilities required to perform pulse oximetry screening; rules, regulations. 2. a. The Commissioner of Health shall require each birthing facility licensed by the Department of Health to perform a pulse oximetry screening, a minimum of 24 hours after birth, on…

26:2-111.5 Testing of newborns for certain lysomal storage disorders required. 1. a. All infants born in this State shall be tested for the lysosomal storage disorders known as Krabbe, Pompe, Gaucher, Fabry, and Niemann-Pick diseases within six months following the occurrence of …

26:2-111.6 Testing of infants for adrenoleukodystrophy. 1. a. All infants born in this State shall be tested for adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) beginning six months following the occurrence of all of the following: (1) the development of a reliable test or series of tests for screeni…

26:2-111.7 "Let Them Be Little Act," screening of newborns for MPSI and MPSII provided. 1. a. All infants born in this State shall be tested for mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I), also known as Hurler syndrome, Hurler-Scheie syndrome, or Scheie syndrome, beginning six months follow…