[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Maywood:
Art. I, 10-18-73;[1] Art. II, 10-18-73.[2] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Diseased animals — See Ch. 338, Art. II.
[Adopted 10-18-73]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Diseases declared communicable by the New Jersey State Department
of Health.
Every physician in professional attendance upon any person in the borough
suffering from a communicable disease or, where no physician is in attendance,
any parent, guardian, house owner or householder who knows that any person
living, dwelling or being in any house or building in the borough under his
or her control has or is suspected of having a communicable disease shall
file an appropriate form, in writing, with the executive officer of the Board
and the State Department, including the name, age, sex, color and precise
location of such person or suspect, together with the name of the disease
suspected, within 12 hours after such diagnosis or discovery is made. If the
disease is diphtheria, scarlet fever or smallpox, it is requested that a report
by telephone be made at once to the executive officer, the written report
to follow. The following are also required to be reported: viral hepatitis,
shigellosis, salmonellosis. measles, german measles and mumps.
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Board to establish the
true character of any disease which is suspected to be communicable, a medical
examination of the person affected may be ordered by the Board, and no person
shall interfere with or refuse to submit to such examination.
Whenever the Board of Health shall have reason to suspect that any person
may be the carrier of the germs of communicable disease, the Board may require
that specimens for examination shall be taken from such persons, and it shall
be the duty of such person to furnish the specimens required. For the purpose
of this Part III, all persons who harbor or carry the causative germs of any
disease, commonly known as "carriers," shall be considered as being affected
with such disease and shall be subject to and comply with the rules and regulations
of the Board which relate to the quarantine, isolation and control of persons
affected with such disease, according to Title 26 of the New Jersey Statutes
Annotated.
Whenever quarantine or isolation has been established by the Board of
Health upon or in any building within this borough in which any communicable
disease exists, such quarantine or isolation and all provisions thereof shall
be maintained and obeyed by all persons until the recovery or death of the
person affected by any such disease has been reported to the Board of Health
and until the Board or the executive officer has lifted said quarantine or
isolation.
It shall be unlawful to transport any person having a communicable disease
or any disease having the symptoms of a communicable disease in any bus, taxicab
or other public conveyance, except in an ambulance or other vehicle, the use
of which is permitted for the purpose.
It shall be unlawful for any person, while suffering from any communicable
disease, to willfully expose himself or for any person in charge of anyone
suffering from any communicable disease to willfully expose or allow to be
exposed such person so suffering in any street, store, inn, public conveyance,
school, church or other public place in the borough except as permitted by
the executive officer.
Any person in the borough having a communicable disease or suspected
of the same shall be subject to state quarantine laws.
Whenever isolation or quarantine is to be established on any premises,
the executive officer shall cause a written order establishing such isolation
or quarantine to be served upon the person in charge of such premises. Service
upon any responsible members of the household shall be deemed sufficient service
upon all members of the household of the person served.
For the purpose of this Part III, the maximum incubation period (that
is, the time which may elapse between the date of the last exposure to a given
disease and the date of its development) shall be as established by the New
Jersey State Department of Health.
The minimum periods of isolation, during which a person in the borough
is suffering from a communicable disease, shall be as established by the New
Jersey State Department of Health.
It shall be the duty of every person in the borough having knowledge
of the existence of a communicable disease within said borough, not known
by such person to have been reported by anyone to the executive officer, to
report the same to said executive officer.
No person shall bring into the borough or knowingly cause to be brought
into the borough any person affected with a communicable disease without previously
obtaining a permit from the executive officer of the Board of Health for that
purpose. No person shall knowingly bring or cause to be brought any article
into the borough liable to propagate a communicable disease.
[Adopted 10-18-75]
No superintendent, principal or teacher of any public, private or parochial
school and no parent or guardian of any person suffering from any communicable
disease shall knowingly permit any such person to attend any of the aforementioned
schools. No person suffering from any such disease shall attend any public
assembly or any place of amusement while so suffering, and no parent or guardian
shall permit any such person to attend a place of amusement or public assembly
while so suffering from any of the aforesaid diseases.
It shall be the duty of the superintendent, principal or teacher of
any public, private or parochial school within this borough to report to the
executive officer of the Board of Health the name and residence of any child
or other person in the school suspected of any communicable disease who shall
present himself or herself for attendance at such school.
It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in immediate charge
of any public, private or parochial school to exclude therefrom any child
or other person affected with a disease suspected to be communicable until
such child or other person shall have presented a certificate issued by the
physician stating that such child or other person is not liable to transmit
infection.
No superintendent, principal or teacher of any school and no parent
or guardian of any child attending any school shall permit any person residing
in any household in which a communicable disease shall exist to attend any
school, place of amusement or assembly until the executive officer of the
Board of Health shall have given a permit therefor. Any such teacher, principal
or superintendent of said school shall report to the executive officer any
persons or children suspected of having any communicable disease as well as
cases reported by a physician which occur in school.
Every undertaker having notice of the death of any person within this
borough from any communicable disease dangerous to public health or of bringing
of the body of any person who died from such disease into the borough shall
give notice thereof to the executive officer.
No public funeral in the borough shall be held for any person who has
died of cholera, diphtheria, leprosy, meningitis (epidemic cerebrospinal),
plague, poliomyelitis (acute anterior), scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus fever
or yellow fever.
Every undertaker who shall be called upon to take charge of the body
of any person who shall have died of any of the diseases defined as communicable
by the New Jersey Department of Health shall warn the family of such person
that every precaution must be taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
Every attending physician shall, within six hours next after he shall
have been informed of the death of any person in the borough who shall have
died of any communicable disease, give written notice thereof to the Board,
particularly setting forth the name, age, sex, color and address of such deceased
person, the date of his or her death and the name of the disease causing death,
and such report shall be independent of the regular certificate of death required
by law.
No public coach, cab, carriage, conveyance, automobile or any upholstered
vehicle used for the conveyance of passengers shall be used to convey the
body of a person who has died from any communicable disease.
