New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 42 - MECHANICAL RESTRAINTS AND SAFEGUARDING EQUIPMENT


Current through Register Vol. 55, No. 48, December 18, 2023

CHAPTER SOURCE AND EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective: September 24, 2021.
See: 53 N.J.R. 1843(a).
CHAPTER HISTORICAL NOTE:
Chapter 42, Emergency Mechanical Equipment, was adopted pursuant to authority of N.J.S.A. 30:1-12, 30:1-15.1; 30:4-1 et seq. and 30:6D-5, R.1986 d.341, effective August 18, 1986, operative January 1, 1987. See: 17 N.J.R. 1832(a), 18 N.J.R. 1706(a).
Chapter 42, Emergency Mechanical Equipment, was repealed and a new Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was adopted as new rules by R.1991 d.437, effective August 19, 1991. See: 23 N.J.R. 1653(a), 23 N.J.R. 2538(a).
Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978), Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was readopted as R.1996 d.386, effective July 16, 1996. See: 28 N.J.R. 2314(a), 28 N.J.R. 3959(a). Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978), Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, expired on July 16, 2001.
Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was adopted as new rules by R.2001 d.372, effective November 5, 2001. See: 33 N.J.R. 1553(a), 33 N.J.R. 3743(a).
Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was readopted as R.2007 d.180, effective May 4, 2007. See: 38 N.J.R. 4621(a), 39 N.J.R. 2258(a).
In accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1b, Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was scheduled to expire on May 4, 2014. See: 43 N.J.R. 1203(a).
Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was readopted as R.2014 d.170, effective October 8, 2014. As part of R.2014 d.170, Subchapter 4, Medical/Dental Evaluations, Examinations, or Treatment, was renamed Medical or Dental Evaluations, Examinations, or Treatment, effective November 3, 2014. See: 46 N.J.R. 1302(a), 46 N.J.R. 2149(b).
In accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1, Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was scheduled to expire on October 8, 2021. Pursuant to Executive Order Nos. 127 (2020) and 244 (2021) and P.L. 2021, c. 103, any chapter of the New Jersey Administrative Code that would otherwise have expired during the Public Health Emergency originally declared in Executive Order No. 103 (2020) is extended through January 1, 2022. Chapter 42, Mechanical Restraints and Safeguarding Equipment, was readopted, effective September 24, 2021. See: Source and Effective Date.

CHAPTER AUTHORITY:

N.J.S.A. 30:1-12 et seq., 30:4-6 et seq., and 30:6D-5.

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