N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.12

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 23, December 2, 2024

Section 8:57-1.12 - Medical examination and specimen submission

(a) The Department or a health officer may order a person who is suspected of being ill or infected with a reportable communicable disease, or who has been exposed to a reportable communicable disease, to submit to a physical examination, X-ray studies, laboratory studies, and such other diagnostic procedures as deemed necessary to determine whether or not such person is communicable to others or is a carrier of disease.

(b) Any person who the Department or health officer orders to submit to an examination and/or to submit specimens under (a) above shall comply with the order.

(c) The Department or health officer shall submit specimens obtained under the authority of this subchapter and under the provisions of this section to a laboratory, which is approved by the Department for the examination of such specimens.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.12

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 ill or infected foodhandlers recodified to 1.12; on medical examination and submission of specimens recodified from 1.9.
Recodified from N.J.A.C. by R.2003 d. 8:57-1.11, effective 10/20/2003.
See: 34 N.J.R. 3945(a), 35 N.J.R. 4883(b).
Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.10, Isolation and restriction for communicable disease, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.9.
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.10 and amended by R.2009 d.107, effective 4/6/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1962(a), 41 N.J.R. 1419(a).
In (a), deleted "or" preceding the first two occurrences of "communicable" and inserted "a" preceding "physical"; in (b), substituted "the Department or health officer orders" for "is ordered" and inserted "an" preceding "examination"; and in (c), substituted "The Department or health officer shall submit specimens" for "Specimens", "subchapter" for "chapter" and "section" for "rule shall be submitted", inserted "the" preceding "provisions" and "examinations" and inserted a comma following laboratory. Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.12, Confidentiality, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.14.

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