N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.3
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise or another subchapter defines one of the following words or terms differently for the purposes of that subchapter.
"Administrator" shall mean the person having control or supervision over a health care facility, correctional facility, school, youth camp, child care center, preschool, or institution of higher education.
"Animal facility" shall have the meaning established for "facility" at 8:23A-1.1.
"Bioterrorism" shall have the meaning established at 26:13-2.
"Certified animal control officer" shall have the meaning established at 8:23A-2.1.
"Child care center" shall have the meaning established at 10:122-1.2.
"Clinical laboratory" shall have the meaning established at 45:9-42.2 7.
"Clinical laboratory director" shall have the meaning established at 45:9-42.2 7.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, or his or her designee.
"Communicable disease" means an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal, or inanimate reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
"Domestic companion animal" shall mean any domestic dog, cat, ferret, bird, reptile, rodent, rabbit not raised for food or fiber, or other animal kept primarily as a household pet for personal appreciation and companionship.
1. Domestic companion animal includes feral and free-roaming dogs and cats.
2. Domestic companion animal does not include:
i. Livestock and aquaculture as defined at 2:2-1.1 and regulated by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture; and
ii. Animals regulated under the Animal Welfare Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 2131 et seq., and the regulations promulgated thereunder at 9 CFR §§ 1.1 through 4.11 as research animals.
1. The format of the electronic file must be one that is specified in the Electronic Laboratory Reporting Technical Manual, available at subchapter Appendix A.
2. Further information on transmission protocols, file formats, laboratory coding, test plans to initiate electronic laboratory reporting with the Department and contact information can be found in the Electronic Laboratory Reporting Technical Manual, available at subchapter Appendix A.
1. Information regarding CDRSS is available in the CDRSS Information Guide, which is written and published by the Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and is available 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.
1. This person is responsible for evaluating health problems, planning appropriate activities to address these health problems, developing necessary budget procedures to finance these activities, and directing staff to carry out these activities efficiently and economically.
1. This term includes infections acquired in the health care facility but appearing after discharge, and also such infections among the staff of the facility.
1. "Endemic level" means the usual prevalence of a given disease within a geographic area.
2. "Suspected outbreak" means an outbreak, which appears to meet the definition of an outbreak, but has not yet been confirmed.
"Overlap agent or toxin" shall have the meaning established at 26:13-2.
"Pediatric" means a person who has not yet attained the age of 18 years.
"Pet shop" shall have the meaning established at N.J.A.C. 8:23A-1.1.
"Pound" shall have the meaning established at N.J.A.C. 8:23A-1.1.
"Public health emergency" shall have the meaning established at 26:13-2.
"Quarantine" shall have the meaning established at 26:13-2.
"School" means any building, structure, or part thereof used for purposes of the education of children between grades kindergarten through 12 whether publicly or privately owned.
"Sexually transmitted disease" means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale and chlamydial genital infections.
"Shelter" shall have the meaning established at 8:23A-1.1.
"Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA)" and "Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA)" mean any Staphylococcus aureus isolate with intermediate susceptibility or resistance to vancomycin, detected and defined according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Seventeenth Informational Supplement (M100-S17).
"Veterinarian" shall mean a person licensed by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery and dentistry, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:44.
"Zoonotic disease" shall mean a communicable disease transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans, and may include transmission by intermediate vectors, such as mosquitoes or ticks.
N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.3
See: 21 N.J.R. 3897(a), 22 N.J.R. 1766(a).
Text of 1.2, reportable diseases, recodified to 1.3; text of 1.1, Definitions, recodified to 1.2 with reporting officer deleted; exception deleted at "State Department of Health."
Amended by R.2003 d.412, effective 10/20/2003.
See: 34 N.J.R. 3945(a), 35 N.J.R. 4883(b).
Added "Invasive disease"; deleted "Outpatient-based setting"; Pediatric surveillance system".
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.2 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 the introductory paragragh, substituted "chapter" for "subchapter" and inserted "or another subchapter defines one of the following words or terms differently for the purposes of that suchapter"; deleted definitions "Hospital or other health care institution", "N.J.A.C." and "N.J.S.A."; added definitions "Administrator", "Animal facility", "Cimal control officer", "Clinical laboratory", "Clinical laboratory director", "Domestic copanion aniamal", "Electronic laboratory reporting(ELR)", "health care facility", "Hospital-onset methecillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)", "invasive infections", "Influenzza virus, novel strain", "Isolation", "Kennel", "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)", "Multidrug-resistant organisms", "Neonatal", "Overlap agent or toxin", "Pediatric", "Pet shop", "pound", "Public health emergency", "Quarantine", "Sheller", "Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA)", "Veterinarian", and "Zoonotic disease", and rewrote definitions "Bioterrorism", "Child care center", "Commissioner", "Electronic reporting", "Ethinicity", "Health officer", "Health care provider", "Nosocomial infection", and "outbreak". Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.3, Reportable diseases, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.5.
The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available