[1980 Code § 117-9; Ord. No. O-2-08]
All diseases or conditions listed in N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.3, and
any amendments thereto are declared to be communicable for purposes
of this code.
[1980 Code § 117-10; Ord. No. O-2-08]
This code adopts by reference the incubation periods for any
communicable disease set forth in the latest edition of Control of
Communicable Diseases Manual, published by the American Public Health
Association.
[1980 Code § 117-11; Ord. No. O-2-08]
This code adopts by reference the periods of isolation and quarantine
of persons who are isolated or quarantined because of illness or infections
for Communicable Diseases the periods set forth in the latest edition
of Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, published by the American
Public Health Association.
[1980 Code § 117-12]
a.
All reports of cases or suspected cases of communicable diseases
shall be made in writing to the Health Officer, signed by the physician
or other person making the same, and shall set forth the nature of
the disease or proposed disease and the name, age, sex, race and precise
location of the person infected.
b.
It shall be the duty of every physician, within 12 hours after the
disease has been diagnosed, to report the name, age, disease or condition
and the precise location of the person infected to the Division of
Health as well as to the State Department of Health for purposes of
contact epidemiology.
c.
Physicians having knowledge of any outbreak of a disease not listed in Subsection 25-7.1, or of unusual manifestations of disease shall report the facts to the Health Officer, who shall make an investigation and submit a report thereof to the State Department of Health.
d.
When no physician is attending any person that appears to be infected
with any communicable disease, then it shall be the duty of any person
who is in attendance, who has knowledge thereof, to report at once
the existence of such suspected disease.
e.
Every house owner or householder who shall know of or have reason to suspect the existence of any person affected with any disease or condition mentioned in Subsection 25-7.1 who is in or upon any premises owned or occupied by him or her and who is not being attended by a physician shall report immediately to the Division of Health the existence of such person and all necessary facts within the knowledge of the person making such reports as to name, address, age and sex of the person having or suspected of having such disease or condition.
f.
Every superintendent or other person having control or supervision over any hospital, sanatorium or other public or private institution situated within the Town of Morristown in which any person suffering from any of the communicable diseases enumerated in Subsection 25-7.1 is received for care or treatment shall, within 24 hours after any such case has been received into said institution, report such sickness.
g.
It shall be the duty of every teacher, nurse or medical school inspector
to report to the principal or other person in charge of a school the
name of any child who appears to be infected with a disease declared
by this code to be communicable. It shall be the duty of the principal
or person in charge of the school to report immediately, in writing
or by telephone or in person, if practical, to the Health Officer.
h.
The principal or person in charge of every school shall immediately exclude from school or isolate any child or person in such school who appears to be infected with any communicable disease mentioned in Subsection 25-7.1 and shall immediately report such fact to the Division of Health, together with the name and address of such child or person and the supposed nature of the disease. Such person shall be excluded from school until the danger of communicating the disease has passed as certified by a physician or the Health Officer.
[1980 Code § 117-13; Ord. No. O-2-08]
No druggist, pharmacist or other person in the Town of Morristown
shall sell, give away, prescribe or administer to any person any drug,
medicine or preparation thereof intended to be used for the treatment,
relief or cure of any disease mentioned in this article except upon
a written prescription of a physician, physician's assistant
or nurse practitioner, licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey.
[1980 Code § 117-14; Ord. No. O-2-08]
The Division of Health, whenever it deems it necessary, may
require and order the person in charge of any school under the jurisdiction
of such Division to exclude any or all unvaccinated children and teachers
in such school and may specify the length of time for such exclusion:
and any person who shall fail to comply with such order shall be subject
to the penalty provided by this code: provided, however, that the
Division may exempt a pupil from the provisions of this section if
the parent or guardian of said pupil objects thereto in a written
statement signed by him upon the ground that the proposed immunization
interferes with the free exercise of his religious principles, in
accordance with the provisions of N.J.A.C. 8:57-4.4, Religious Exemptions,
or any amendments thereto.
[1980 Code § 117-15]
The Division of Health, in case of an epidemic or unusual prevalence of any communicable disease, may take such measures and order done and cause to be done such acts as may be deemed necessary for the preservation of the health, and to that end may cause any and all schools within the territorial jurisdiction of this Division, all churches, libraries, theaters, houses, buildings and other places where people are accustomed to congregate to be closed for a specified period of time or until the epidemic or unusual prevalence of such communicable disease shall have ceased to exist. Any person who violates or neglects or refuses to comply with any measures or order shall be subject to the penalty as provided in Article XX of this code.
[1980 Code § 117-16; Ord. No. O-2-08]
Every person suspected of being affected with or exposed to any communicable disease mentioned in Subsection 25-7.1 shall, until officially released by the Division of Health, be quarantined, isolated or restricted according to the rules and regulations of the Division of Health and shall follow such precautions to prevent the spread or transfer of such disease as the Division of Health may direct, as authorized by N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.9 or any amendments thereto.
[1980 Code § 117-17]
a.
In establishing an isolation or quarantine, the Division or Health
Officer shall define the place and the limits of the area within which
the infected person is to be isolated. No person except the attending
physician or nurse shall enter or leave the area of isolation without
the permission of the Health Officer. Isolation or quarantine shall
be continued until it is determined by examination that the person
no longer has the disease in an infectious state.
b.
After isolation or quarantine of any person infected with or exposed
to a communicable disease shall have been established, such person
shall not leave the apartment or premises where he is isolated or
quarantined, nor shall any other person remove such person or permit
him to be removed unless a permit for such removal shall have been
issued first by the Health Officer.
[1980 Code § 117-18]
When the diagnosis of any communicable disease is established,
the Division will have the right to post, in plain view at the entrance
of the house or upon the doors of the apartment where this case is
isolated, a placard stating the existence of a communicable disease
and the name of such a disease.
[1980 Code § 117-19]
No person shall interfere with or obstruct the posting of any
placard by any representative of the Division in or on any place or
premise, nor shall any person conceal or mutilate any such placard
or remove it except by permission of the Health Officer. It shall
be the duty of the occupant of the premises where a placard has been
posted to notify immediately the Health Officer of any interference
with or removal of such placard.
[1980 Code § 117-20]
The physician or nurse or the necessary attendant upon a case
of communicable disease, after tending upon the case, shall take such
precautions and practice such measures of cleansing or disinfection
of his person and garments as will prevent the conveyance to others
of the infected material of the patient.
[1980 Code § 117-21]
No person shall expose or permit the exposure of anyone to any
communicable disease or its causative agent. No person suffering from
a communicable disease or harboring positive organisms of any communicable
disease and no articles which may tend to propagate or spread such
disease shall be brought into the Town without permission from the
Health Officer. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person
that such persons or articles have been brought into this Town without
the permission of the Health Officer, he shall immediately give notice
thereof to the Health Officer. No person shall remove any such diseased
person or infected article from any house or place without a permit
from the Health Officer.
[1980 Code § 117-22]
No person infected with chicken pox, diphtheria, epidemic cerebral
spinal meningitis, German measles, measles, mumps, acute anterior
poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, streptococcal sore throat, whooping
cough, smallpox or Vincent's angina in an infectious state shall
attend or be permitted to attend any public, private or Sunday school,
day care center, or any public or private gathering, nor shall such
person visit or make use of any public library or any of the books
belonging there; nor shall the personal clothing or bed clothing of
any person infected with such disease be sent to a public laundry,
unless it shall have first been disinfected in such manner as prescribed
by the Division of Health or Health Officer.
[1980 Code § 117-23]
The Division of Health may, if it shall be deemed necessary,
require a person believed to be a carrier of disease germs or a Contact
of such person, to furnish specimens for examination. It shall be
the duty of such person to furnish the necessary specimens for examination
and permit the Health Officer or his representative to collect such
specimens.
[1980 Code § 117-24]
Whenever the Division of Health may deem it necessary to establish
the true character of any disease which in its opinion may be communicable,
a medical examination of the person infected may be required, and
such specimens or secretions or other material for examination shall
be taken from such person; and it shall be the duty of such person
to submit to such examination and furnish such necessary specimens.
No person shall interfere with or prevent the securing of such specimens.
The Division of Health may cause any person suspected of being infected
with a communicable disease to be isolated or quarantined until medical
or laboratory examination shows that the person is free of the causative
organisms of disease.
[1980 Code § 117-25]
Adequate cleansing or disinfection, or both, of rooms, furniture
and belongings, when deemed necessary by the Division of Health or
when required by this code, shall immediately follow the recovery,
death or removal of the person infected with a communicable disease.
Such cleansing shall be performed by and at the expense of the occupant
or the owner of said premises, upon the order and under the direction
of the Division of Health in accordance with the provisions of this
code.
[1980 Code § 117-26]
When an order requiring the cleansing or disinfection of articles
or premises is not complied with, the Health Officer shall cause a
placard to be posted on the premises forbidding the occupancy of such
rooms or premises until such order shall have been complied with.
No person shall remove, mutilate, conceal or destroy any such placard,
except by direction of the Division of Health.
[1980 Code § 117-27]
Furniture, bedding, clothing, carpets, rugs or other articles
which may have been contaminated with infective material, which are
of such nature or in condition that they cannot, in the opinion of
the Health Officer, be properly cleansed or disinfected, shall, upon
his order, be destroyed in the manner designated by him.
[1980 Code § 117-28]
Every physician attending any person whose illness is caused
or suspected of being caused by food poisoning (bacterial or chemical)
shall, within 12 hours after his first attendance, make a written
report to the Division of Health stating the name, age, sex, race
and address of such person.
[1980 Code § 117-29]
Every veterinarian who shall attend any animal in the Town of
Morristown affected with or suspected of being affected with anthrax,
glanders, farcy, foot and mouth disease, rabies, tuberculosis, psitacosis
or any other communicable disease transmittable to humans shall file
with the Division of Health, within 12 hours thereafter, a written
report stating the name of the disease, the kind of animal, the precise
location of such animal, the name and address of the owner or person
in charge thereof and any other necessary information regarding the
animal so affected. In case no veterinarian shall attend such animal,
then it shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge to file
such report with the Division of Health. The owner or person in charge
of any animal affected with or suspected of being affected with any
disease mentioned above or with any other communicable disease shall
isolate or restrict such animal and follow such precautions in such
manner and for such length of time as the Division of Health may direct.
The Division of Health shall have the power to order the destruction
of any animal so affected, and it shall be the duty of the owner or
person in charge thereof to comply immediately with the terms of such
order. The Division of Health shall not be liable for the value of
animals so destroyed.
[1980 Code § 117-30]
It shall be the duty of any person having knowledge of any dog,
cat or other animal affected with rabies or suspected of being infected
with rabies within this Town to forthwith notify the Division of Health
and, if possible, give a description of the animal, the location where
it may be found and the name and address of the owner or the person
having custody of the animal.
[1980 Code § 117-31; Ord. No. O-2-08]
a.
Whenever a dog, cat or other animal bites any person, the owner or
person in charge of said animal shall, at his own expense, surrender
the animal to be quarantined for observation in accordance with the
instructions of the Division of Health. The length of said observation
period shall be determined by the Division of Health and shall be
for at least 10 days after the animal has bitten a person. In the
alternative, the owner or person in charge of said animal may arrange,
with the permission of the Division of Health, for the quarantine
of such animal for a like period by a licensed veterinarian of the
State of New Jersey. Animals with nursing puppies may be quarantined
at home.
[1980 Code § 117-32; Ord. No. O-2-08]
Whenever a death has been caused by any communicable disease,
the transportation, care, disposal and burial of the body shall be
in accordance with the regulations regarding same as required by the
State Sanitary Code and in accordance with such further regulations
as the Division of Health may direct.
No body may be transported out of the State or country without
a letter of authorization from the Health Officer stating that the
body is safe for travel and is non-communicable. If the body is of
a person who died of a communicable disease, the Health Officer will
require a certification of embalmment by a licensed funeral director
before issuing a letter of authorization to transport the body.
