New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION
Section 8:57-6.8 - Required immunization; meningococcal

(a) Each new student entering a four-year institution, for the first time after September 1, 2004, and who resides in a campus dormitory, shall receive one dose of meningococcal vaccine as condition of attendance at that institution, except as provided in 8:57-6.14 and 6.15.

(b) An institution shall exempt a student from the meningococcal vaccine requirement if the student objects thereto in a written statement submitted to the institution signed by the student or the parent or legal guardian if a minor, explaining how the administration of meningococcal vaccine conflicts with the student's bona fide religious tenets or practices, except that a general philosophical or moral exemption to the vaccination shall not be sufficient for an exemption on religious grounds.