N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.11

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

Section 8:57-1.11 - Isolation and quarantine for communicable disease

(a) A health officer or the Department, upon receiving a report of a communicable disease, shall, by written order, establish such isolation or quarantine measures as medically and epidemiologically necessary to prevent or control the spread of the disease.

1. If, in the medical and epidemiologic judgment of the health officer or the Department, it is necessary to hospitalize the ill person in order to provide adequate isolation, a health officer or the Department shall promptly remove, or cause to be removed, that person to a hospital.

2. Such order shall remain in force until terminated by the health officer or the Department.

3. A health officer may use Quarantine and Isolation - Model Rules for Local Boards of Health, available at subchapter Appendix B, as a guide for establishing isolation and quarantine measures.

i. Quarantine and Isolation - Model Rules for Local Boards of Health, is written and published by the Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, and is available at subchapter Appendix B, and by written request to the Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369, or online through the Department's web page at http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/index.html;

(b) A health officer or the Department may restrict access of the persons permitted to come in contact with or visit a person who is hospitalized or isolated pursuant to this section where medically or epidemiologically necessary to prevent the spread of the disease.

(c) The Department or health officer may, by written order, isolate or quarantine any person who has been exposed to a communicable disease as medically or epidemiologically necessary to prevent the spread of the disease, providing such period of restriction shall not exceed the period of incubation of the disease.

(d) Any person who is responsible for the care, custody, or control of a person who is ill or infected with a communicable disease shall take all measures necessary to prevent transmission of the disease to other persons.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.11

Amended by R.1990 d.243, effective 6/4/1990.
See: 21 N.J.R. 3897(a), 22 N.J.R. 1766(a).
Text on medical examination and submission of specimens recodified to 1.11; text on health officer investigations recodified to 1.9 with further specification of investigation requirements.
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.10 and amended by R.2003 d. 412, effective 10/20/2003.
See: 34 N.J.R. 3945(a), 35 N.J.R. 4883(b).
Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.9, "Health officer investigation", recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.8.
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.9 and amended by R.2009 d.107, effective 4/6/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1962(a), 41 N.J.R. 1419(a).
Section was "Isolation and restriction for communicable disease". Rewrote (a); in (b), substituted "persons" for "individuals" and "pursuant to" for "under authority of" and inserted "where medically or epidemiologically necessary to prevent the spread of the disease"; in (c), deleted ", if authorized by local ordinance or by the Department," following "officer" and substituted "isolate or quarantine" for "restrict" and "as medically or epidemiologically necessary to prevent the spread of the disease," for ", under conditions he or she may specify;"; and in (d), substituted "Any" for "A". Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.11, Foodhandlers ill or infected with communicable diseases, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.13.

The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available