The following diseases are declared to be reportable to the State Department of Health for purposes of this code. All diseases listed herein are to be reported in the manner prescribed by Regulations 2 and 3 of this article.
Amebiasis
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis
Cholera
Dengue
Diarrhea of newborn
Diphtheria
Food poisoning (specify)
Glanders
Hepatitis
  Infectious
  Serum
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal meningitis
Plague
Psittacosis
Q Fever
Rabies
Relapsing fever, louse-borne
Rocky mountain spotted fever
Salmonellosis (specify)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Tetanus
Trachoma
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid Fever
Typhus Fever
Venereal diseases
  Chancroid
  Gonorrhea
  Granuloma inguinale
  Lymphogranuloma venereum
  Opthalmia neonatorum
  Syphilis
Virus infection of the central nervous system
  Aseptic meningitis (specify)
  Encephalitis (specify)
  Poliomyelitis
Yellow fever
A. 
Every physician attending any person ill with or infected with any of the diseases listed in Regulation 1[1] within 12 hours after such disease has been diagnosed shall report such disease to the officer designated to receive these reports by the local Board of Health of the jurisdiction wherein diagnosis is made, excepting cases of venereal diseases, which are to be reported directly to the State Department of Health.
[1]
Editor's Note: See § 396-29.
B. 
The report shall include the name of the reporting physician, the name of the disease, the name, age, sex, exact location of the person ill or infected with such disease, and such other information as may be requested by the State Department of Health.
C. 
Physicians shall also comply with the provisions for reporting diseases described in Regulation 4, Reporting of certain diseases occurring on or about dairy premises.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: See § 396-32.
D. 
Physicians having knowledge of any outbreak of a disease not listed in Regulation 1 or of unusual manifestations of disease shall report the facts to the health officer in whose jurisdiction the condition exists, who shall make an investigation and submit a report thereof to the State Department of Health (N.J.S.A. 26:4-15).
E. 
For purposes of research, surveillance and in response to technological developments in disease control, the State Commissioner of Health is empowered to amend the list of diseases to be reported and the manner of reporting diseases as set forth above for such periods of time as may be necessary to control disease.
A. 
The superintendent or other person having control or supervision over any county or municipal hospital, sanitarium, clinic, or other public or private institution in which any person is ill or infected with any of the diseases listed in Regulation 1,[1] within 24 hours after such disease has been diagnosed, shall report such disease to the officer designated to receive these reports by the local Board of Health having jurisdiction over the territory in which such institution is located, excepting cases of venereal diseases, which are to be reported directly to the State Department of Health.
[1]
Editor's Note: See § 396-29.
B. 
The superintendent or other person having control or supervision over any hospital, sanitarium, clinic, or other institution maintained and operated by the state in which any person is ill or infected with food poisoning or any of the communicable diseases listed in Regulation 1,[2] within 24 hours after such disease has been diagnosed, shall submit a report of this fact to the State Department of Health.
[2]
Editor's Note: See § 396-29.
C. 
The reports required by Subsections A and B of this regulation shall be signed by the superintendent, or other person having charge of the state, county, or municipal hospital, sanitarium, clinic, or other public or private institution, and shall state the name of the disease, the name, age, sex, exact location of the person ill or infected with such disease, the home address of such person, or the address from which he was received from the institution, the date upon which he was received for care or treatment, and such other information as may be required by the State Department of Health.
D. 
The provisions of Regulation 4, Reporting certain diseases occurring on dairy premises,[3] are applicable to any public or private institution operating a dairy on or about its premises (N.J.S.A. 26:4-19,20).
[3]
Editor's Note: See § 396-32.
A. 
Every physician attending a person ill or infected with food poisoning or a communicable disease listed in Regulation 1,[1] which may be transmitted through milk or a milk product, on any dairy or other premises where milk or a milk product is produced or processed for sale or distribution or any dwelling in which any person resides who is employed on or about any such dairy or other premises, shall report immediately such findings by telephone or telegram to the officer designated by the local Board of Health to receive such reports in the local health district having jurisdiction of the particular dairy or other premises and also to the State Department of Health, and within 12 hours thereafter shall submit a written report to said local reporting officer and the State Department of Health. The report shall include the name of the reporting physician, the name of the disease, the name, age, sex, exact location of the person who is ill or infected with such disease, the name of the owner or manager of said dairy or other premises, and the trade name of the business (N.J.S.A. 26:4-17).
[1]
Editor's Note: See § 396-29.
B. 
Where a physician is not in attendance upon a person suspected of being ill or infected under the circumstances described in Subsection A of this regulation, the owner or person in charge of any dairy or other premises on which milk or a milk product is produced or processed for sale or distribution shall report immediately such findings by telephone or telegram to the officer designated by the local Board of Health to receive such reports in the local health district having charge of the particular dairy or other premises and also to the State Department of Health, and within 12 hours thereafter shall submit a written report to said local reporting officer and the State Department of Health. The report shall be signed by the owner or person in charge of the dairy or other premises and shall state the name of the suspected disease, the name, age, sex, exact location of the person suspected of being ill or infected, the name of the owner or manager of said dairy or other premises and the trade name of the business (N.J.S.A. 26:4-16).
C. 
When a person is ill or infected with the causative agent of food poisoning or a communicable disease listed in Regulation 1[2] which may be transmitted through milk or milk products, on a dairy or other premises where raw milk or a raw milk product is produced for sale, distribution or processing in a local health district other than the one in which the raw milk or raw milk product is produced, it shall be the duty of the health officer, immediately upon being so informed, to transmit this information by telephone or telegram to the health officer of the local health district to which the raw milk or raw milk product is transported for sale, distribution or processing, and within 24 hours thereafter to notify the State Department of Health in writing of the restrictive measures he has established to prevent the transmission of infection (N.J.S.A. 26:3-19; 26:3A-14).
[2]
Editor's Note: See § 396-29.
A. 
Reporting officers who receive reports of disease required under this chapter shall send a copy thereof to the health officer having jurisdiction in the local health district in which the disease is reported.
B. 
Reporting officers who receive reports of diseases required under the Regulations 2, 3, and 4,[1] within 24 hours thereafter, shall send a copy thereof to the State Department of Health.
[1]
Editor's Note: See §§ 396-30, 396-31 and 396-32.
C. 
The health officer of a local health district who receives a report of a disease listed in Regulation 1[2] from his reporting officer shall immediately forward the facts contained therein, together with such related information as he may have available, to the health officer of the local health district where the disease was believed to have been contracted and the health officer of the local health district wherein the home address of the ill or infected person is situated. If either of said health districts is not located in New Jersey, the health officer shall forward this information in writing to the State Department of Health (N.J.S.A. 26:4-24).
[2]
Editor's Note: See § 396-29.
A licensed health officer, upon receiving a report of a case of a reportable disease, shall make an investigation for the purpose of ascertaining the source and spread of the infection and shall immediately relay such information to the State Department of Health. The health officer shall investigate any suspected case of reportable disease to ascertain the existence of such disease.
A. 
A health officer, upon receiving a report of a communicable disease, shall by written order establish such isolation or other restrictive measures required by law or regulation or as may be necessary to prevent or control disease. If it is necessary in the judgment of the health officer in order to provide adequate isolation, a health officer shall promptly remove, or cause to be removed, a person ill with a communicable disease to a hospital. Such order shall remain in force until terminated by the health officer.
B. 
Only the physician and nurse or other person in attendance upon the patient, or duly authorized representatives of the State Department of Health or local health department, shall be permitted to come in contact with or visit a person hospitalized or isolated under authority of this section, except by order of the health officer.
C. 
A health officer, if authorized by the State Department of Health or local Board of Health regulations, may by written order restrict any person who has been exposed to a communicable disease, under conditions he may specify; providing such period of restriction shall not exceed the period of incubation of the disease. The minimum period of isolation of persons ill or infected with a communicable disease or restriction of contacts of such communicable disease shall be not less than that prescribed by regulation of the State Department of Health.
A. 
The State Department of Health or a licensed health officer may order a person ill or infected with a reportable or communicable disease to submit to medical examinations and to submit specimens of blood, bodily discharges or other specimens to determine whether or not such person is infectious to others or is a carrier of disease.
B. 
The licensed health officer or an authorized representative of the State Department of Health, who has reason to believe that a person is ill or infected with a reportable and/or communicable disease, may order such person to submit to medical examinations and to submit specimens of blood, bodily discharges or other specimens to determine whether or not such a person is ill or infected with such a disease, or is infectious or is a carrier of disease.
C. 
Persons ordered to submit to examination and to submit specimens under the provisions of Subsections A and B of this section shall comply with said order.
D. 
Specimens obtained under the authority of this regulation shall be submitted to a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health for the examination of such specimens.
All laboratories shall immediately report results of laboratory examinations of specimens indicating or suggesting the existence of a reportable and/or communicable disease to the State Department of Health and to the physician or veterinarian submitting the specimen.
A. 
Persons advised that they are ill or infected with a communicable disease shall not contact others or dispose of bodily secretions or exudates in such a manner as to cause or contribute to, promote, or make possible, the spread of such disease.
B. 
Persons responsible for the care, custody or control of persons ill or infected with a communicable disease shall not permit such persons to contact others in such a manner as to cause or contribute to, promote, or make possible, the spread of a communicable disease.
C. 
A person shall not needlessly expose himself, or visit, or come in personal contact with any individual ill or infected with a communicable disease or with discharges of any kind from such individual or in any manner cause or contribute to, promote or make possible the spread thereof.
The physician in attendance upon a person presenting signs and symptoms of a communicable disease shall instruct the person and attendants operating under his supervision in the precautionary measures for preventing the spread of the disease and the necessity for treatment and continued medical supervision, or refer such person to an appropriate health agency for instruction in the precautionary measures in preventing spread of the disease and the necessity for treatment and continued medical supervision.
The superintendent or person in charge of any hospital or any other institution or dispensary, in which there is a person ill or infected with any communicable disease, shall take the appropriate precautions as may prevent the spread of infection.
Any person exposed to the risk of contracting smallpox by proximity to a case or suspected case of the disease, who refuses to be vaccinated, shall be restricted at his own expense for at least 14 days from the date of his last exposure.
When a person is ill with any communicable disease which may be transmitted through food, or who is infected with the causative agent of any such disease or any dairy or other premises where food is intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored, or otherwise handled, such food shall not be sold or distributed from such dairy or other premises unless a written permit for the sale or distribution of such foods shall have been issued by the health officer or by a representative of the State Department of Health.
Food intended for sale or distribution, which is manufactured, packed, stored, or otherwise handled on any premises upon which a person ill or infected with a disease transmissable by food worked or was permitted to work, visit, board, or otherwise frequent, may be destroyed or ordered destroyed by the health officer or by the State Department of Health if such food is considered so contaminated as to be liable to cause disease; or the food may be ordered to be treated in a manner that will eliminate contamination.
A. 
Persons ill or infected with a communicable disease which may be transmitted through food are prohibited from working in any establishment where food intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored, or otherwise handled.
B. 
Persons who reside, board, lodge, or visit with a household where they may come in contact with any person ill or infected with a communicable disease which may be transmitted through food are prohibited from working in any establishment where food intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored, or otherwise handled unless permission is granted by the health officer or the State Department of Health.
C. 
Persons employed in any establishment where food intended for sale or distribution is manufactured, packed, stored, or otherwise handled may be required to submit to a physical examination for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not they are ill or infected with a communicable disease, whenever in the judgment of a health officer or the State Department of Health such examination may be necessary.
A. 
A health officer, local Board of Health, their representatives or a physician in the performance of his duties for a medical milk commission shall only employ a laboratory which complies with the provision for certification and standards for laboratories contained in Chapter IV of the State Sanitary Code for the laboratory service required by this chapter.
B. 
A health officer or local Board of Health shall not accept laboratory reports required by this chapter, or Chapter VII, Regulation 42, from a laboratory that does not comply with the regulations of Chapter IV, provided that a laboratory report indicating the existence of disease may be accepted subject to confirmation by an approved laboratory.
The use of living microbiological agents, other than those agents approved by the Division of Biologic Standards of the National Institutes of Health, in the inoculation of human beings is hereby prohibited until full and complete data regarding the methods of use, including a specimen of the living microbial agents and other agents employed therewith, and full account of the details of preparation, dosage, and administration, shall have been submitted to the State Department of Health and permission granted by the Department in writing for the use of the same.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of Chapter II of the New Jersey State Sanitary Code, or of the provisions specifically set forth in this article, shall be punishable by a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $500.