New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Section 8:57-1.1 - Purpose and scope
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The rules are designed to promote the identification and reporting of specified communicable diseases so that public health officials can take appropriate action to prevent the further spread of those diseases to other persons and thereby preserve, maintain, or improve the public health.
(b) This subchapter establishes requirements for:
(c) This subchapter also covers investigation requirements and regulatory actions to be taken by the local health officer or the Department when notified of a communicable disease, isolation and quarantine restrictions, medical examination and specimen submission requirements that may be placed upon a person ill with a communicable disease, restrictions that may be placed upon a foodhandler ill or infected with a communicable disease, and requirements for confidentiality and enforcement.
(d) The Commissioner may amend the reportable communicable diseases specified at 8:57-1.5, 1.7 and 1.8 for such periods of time as may be necessary to control disease, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, 52:14B-1 et seq. for purposes of research, surveillance, and/or in response to technological developments in disease detection or control.
(e) The Commissioner may amend any provision of this chapter during a public health emergency by order of the Commissioner pursuant to the Emergency Health Powers Act, 26:13-1 et seq.
(f) The Department's Communicable Disease Service is a public health entity with public health oversight functions pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 CFR 164.501 and 512(b), referred to as HIPAA.
The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available