New Jersey § 26:1a-7

§ 26:1a-7.

The Public Health Council shall have power, by the affirmative vote of a majority

of all its members, to establish, and from time to time amend and repeal, such reasonable

sanitary regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this act or the provisions

of any other law of this State as may be necessary properly to preserve and improve

the public health in this State. The regulations so established shall be called the State Sanitary Code. The State Sanitary Code may cover any subject affecting public health, or the preservation

and improvement of public health and the prevention of disease in the State of New

Jersey, including the immunization against disease of all school children in the State

of New Jersey. In addition thereto, and not in limitation thereof, said State Sanitary Code may

contain sanitary regulations: (a) prohibiting nuisances hazardous to human health;

(b) (deleted by amendment) (c) regulating the use of privies and cesspools; (d) regulating

the disposition of excremental matter; (e) regulating the control of fly and mosquito

breeding places; (f) regulating the detection, reporting, prevention and control

of communicable and preventable diseases; (g) regulating the conduct of public funerals;

(h) regulating the conduct of boarding homes for children; (i) regulating the conduct

of maternity homes and the care of maternity and infant patients therein; (j) regulating

the conduct of camps; (k) (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1987, c. 302) (l) regulating

the preparation, handling, transportation, burial or other disposal, disinterment

and reburial of dead human bodies; (m) prescribing standards of cleanliness for public eating rooms and restaurants ; (n) regulating the conduct of tattoo parlors; (o) regulating the conduct of body

piercing; and (p) regulating the conduct of cosmetic tattooing . Prior to the final adoption by the council of any sanitary regulation or amendment

thereto or repealer thereof the council shall hold a public hearing thereon. The council shall cause to be published, at least once, not less than 15 days prior

to such hearing, in each of the counties of the State in a newspaper published in

each of said counties, or if no newspaper be published in any such county, then in

a newspaper circulated in such county, a notice of such hearing, specifying the time

when and the place where such hearing will be held, together with a brief summary

of the proposed regulation, amendment or repealer and a statement that copies of the

text thereof may be obtained from the State Commissioner of Health and Senior Services

or from the board of health of any municipality in the State. The State Department of Health and Senior Services shall prepare and make available

on request therefor, copies of the text of such proposed regulations and changes therein

in the manner described in such public notice.