N.J. Admin. Code § 7:1H-2.5

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 7:1H-2.5 - Personnel standards

(a) Every county department and local health agency shall provide environmental health services under the direction of a full-time employee trained and experienced in managing environmental health services. Each such department or agency shall be administered by a full-time health officer, provided however, that the existing administrator or a commission formed for the provision of one or more environmental health services need not be a health officer to continue as administrator of that commission.

(b) No county department or local health agency shall appoint any person to fulfill the duties of a sanitary inspector who is not a licensed sanitary inspector. Every employee of a county department or of a local health agency shall be qualified by experience and education to perform the environmental health services for which the employee is hired. Employees performing duties which, by the complexity of their nature, require a degree in the physical, chemical, biological or environmental sciences or engineering shall have such a degree.