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Industrial Diseases—Act Requiring Reports of, to State Board of Health Repealed. (Ch. 278, Act Apr. 20, 1920.)

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1. The act entitled “An act to require physicians to report certain human ailments and diseases to the State board of health and providing penalties for its violation," approved April 1, 1912, be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 1920.

County Communicable Disease Hospitals-Appointment, Powers, and Duties of Board of Managers. (Ch. 253, Act Apr. 20, 1920.)

1. Section 3 of the act [An act to authorize boards of chosen freeholders of counties of this State to acquire lands and erect and maintain hospitals for contagious diseases, and to provide for their control and management," approved April 8, 1903] to which this is an amendment be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

3. When such hospital has been built, and is ready for occupancy, the director of the board of chosen freeholders of the county in which it is located, shall, with the consent and approval of said board, appoint a board of managers of said hospital, which board shall consist of six members, residents of the said county, three of whom shall be selected from the members of the several boards of health in said county, except in municipalities governed under commission form of government and in which there are no such boards of health, such selections may be made from the several heads of the departments charged with the administration of matters of public health in such municipalities, and three shall be physicians; not more than three members of any such board shall belong to the same political party; two of the persons first appointed as herein provided shall be appointed to serve for three years, two shall be appointed to serve for two years, and two shall be appointed to serve for one year, from the date of their appointments; and thereafter the members of said board of managers shall serve for the term of three years; the members of said board of managers shall serve without compensation; any vacancy in said board arising from any cause, except expiration of term of office, shall be filled in the manner herein provided for original appointments, for the unexpired term only; said board of managers shall have the control and government of such hospital and the care and custody of such hospital building or buildings; it may appoint and remove at pleasure a superintendent or warden thereof, and such other officers or employees as it may deem necessary, and fix their compensation; it may adopt and establish suitable by-laws with respect to the terms of admis sion, support, and discharge of patients, and such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary for the proper conduct and government of said hospital. Local Health Officers, Sanitary Inspectors, and Plumbing Inspectors-Licenses- -Appointment. (Ch. 73, Act Apr. 5, 1920.)

1. Section 1 of the act [A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to establish in this State boards of health and a bureau of vital statistics, and

1 Reprint 200 from Public Health Reports, p. 135.

to define their respective powers and duties," approved March 31, 1887, which said supplement was approved April 8, 1903] to which this is a supplement be amended so as to read as follows:

1. To the end that local boards of health may be enabled to secure the services of capable health officers and trained sanitary and plumbing inspectors, the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey is hereby authorized to cause examinations to be made by such persons and at such times and places as it may appoint, and under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, for the purpose of determining the qualifications of applicants for license as health officers, sanitary and plumbing inspectors; every such examination shall be in such subjects and conducted in such manner as the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey shall direct, and every applicant whose examination shall be approved by said State board shall receive a license as health officer, sanitary or plumbing inspector as hereinafter provided.

2. Section 2 of the act to which this is a supplement be amended so as to read as follows:

2. Said State board shall issue five classes of licenses, to wit: Health officers' licenses, sanitary inspectors' licenses of the first class, sanitary inspectors' licenses of the second class, sanitary inspectors' licenses of the third class, and plumbing inspectors' licenses; every person whose examination as an applicant for a health officer's license is approved shall be entitled to receive such license, and every person whose examination as an applicant for a sanitary inspector's license of the first class, the second class, the third class, or as plumbing inspector is approved shall be entitled to receive a sanitary inspector's license of the first class, the second class, the third class, or that of a plumbing inspector, according to the approval of his examination.

3. Section 4 of the act to which this is a supplement be amended so as to read as follows:

4. Any person licensed as a sanitary inspector of the first class shall be eligible to appointment as such inspector by any local board of health in this State; any person licensed as a sanitary inspector of the second class shall be eligible to appointment as such inspector by any local board of health in any municipality of this State, not being a city; any person licensed as a sanitary inspector of the third class shall be eligible to appointment as such inspector by any local board of health in any township of this State; any person licensed as a plumbing inspector shall be eligible to appointment as such inspector by any local board of health in any city, municipality, or township of this State as hereinbefore mentioned: Provided, however, That the holder of any such plumbing license shall be a practicing plumber in the city, municipality, or township of this State in which he resides at the time of his appointment by said local board of health; the title " sanitary inspector as used in this act shall be understood to apply to every officer appointed by a local board of health to aid in the enforcement of the sanitary laws of this State, or the rules, regulations, and ordinances of such local board, excepting health officers and persons performing merely clerical duties in the office of such local board; any sanitary inspector so appointed shall be the agent of the local board appointing him for the performance of such services as such local board or any health officer under the authority of such local board shall assign to him.

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4. Section 5 of the act to which this is a supplement be amended so as to read as follows:

5. No local board of health shall hereafter (on or after the 1st day of January, 1905) appoint any person as health officer who is not the holder of a health officer's license granted as in this act above prescribed, or as sanitary

inspector who is not the holder of a sanitary inspector's license, or as plumbing inspector who is not the holder of a plumbing inspector's license of the class hereinabove prescribed for the municipality or township within which the appointing local board shall have jurisdiction: Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall prevent any local board of health from continuing in office any person now filling the office of health officer, sanitary inspector, or plumbing inspector of such local board.

Employees of Local Boards of Health-Pension Fund for Relief of. (Ch. 332, Act Apr. 21, 1920.)

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1. Section 4 of an act entitled "An amendment of an act entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning local boards of health and employees thereof in cities of this State, and for the relief of such employees,” approved April second, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen,' which amendment was approved March 1, 1918, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

4. Section 8 of the act to which this act is amendatory is hereby amended to read as follows:

8. All pensions created under this act shall be exempt from execution, attachment, or any other legal process whatever. Such pension fund shall be created and sustained as follows, viz:

I. There shall be deducted from every payment of salary to such employees 2 per cent of the amount thereof, providing such employee entered such services on or before the age of 35 years; if after such age then such percentage shall be increased to such an amount as shall be determined by the board of trustees to correspond to the risk arising by the additional age of such employees.

II. The city shall raise by taxation and pay into said fund yearly an amount equal to 4 per cent of the total salaries paid to such employees.

III. All fines, if any, imposed on any employee, all fines and penalties collected for the violation of any statute relating to the public health, or ordinance of the board of health; all moneys deducted from the salary of any such employee on account of absence or loss of time.

IV. All moneys given or donated to such fund by any person or corporation in any manner or form whatsoever.

In case there shall not be sufficient money in said pension fund created as aforesaid the common council or other governing body shall include in any tax levy a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of said fund for the time being.

The board of trustees of any such corporation may assess and collect from each and every employee of such board or department the said 2 per cent of his annual salary, to be paid monthly to the treasurer of the corporation, and such assessment and collection shall be in manner and form as may be provided in the by-laws of the corporation, and whenever any employee shall die or be discharged, having served for a less term than 20 years, all payments made by such employee to said pension fund shall be forfeited and be added to and become a part thereof. The board of trustees are hereby empowered, in its judgment, to make it a condition of membership that each member shall sign an order on the city treasurer or other disbursing officer directing the retention of the amount of the assessment levied hereunder, to be paid over directly to the association by retention from his salary or wages, and the city treasurer or other disbursing officer is hereby directed to make such retention

2 Supplement 38 to Public Health Reports, p. 264. Reprint 264 from Public Health Reports, p. 299.

scribing its powers and duties and fixing penalties fo approved April 24, 1911], of which this act is amend hereby is, amended to read as follows:

5. (a) Whenever the department of health of the or the owner or owners of any dairy or breeding ar department of agriculture to cause an inspection to animals as may be supposed to be diseased with tube of agriculture may designate a veterinarian to mal if deemed advisable by the department of agriculture test of said animal or animals in accordance with the the department of agriculture. If the owner or ow animals shall agree to comply with and carry out the r ment of agriculture relating to the removal from th of condemned animals, the disinfection of the premis into the herd of other animals, the expense of such in be borne by the department of agriculture.

(b) Whenever such an inspection or test shall result any animals examined or tested, such animal or anima antine by the owner or owners thereof until notified by culture to slaughter said animal or animals, and upo said owner or owners shall immediately slaughter or ca mals to be slaughtered in the presence of a duly autho municipal inspector. If the owner or owners of any an demned shall, before the slaughter of said animal or a the net proceeds from the sale of the meat, hide, and of said animal or animals, provided the same shall by a Federal, State, or municipal health inspector, the shall have no further claim against the State on accou the owner or owners of said animal or animals so con

Reprint 200 from Public Health Reports, p. 153.

3. Section 11 of the act of which this act is amendatory be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows:

11. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange as and for certified milk, any milk which is not produced in conformity with the rules, regulations, and standards adopted by the State department of health under authority contained in this act, or which does not bear the certification of a medical milk commission incorporated pursuant to the provisions of this act or of a medical milk commission incorporated in some other State for the purposes specified in section 1 hereof: Provided, however, That in the case of a medical milk commission incorporated in another State, before the milk produced under the supervision of such a commission may be sold in this State, such commission must have received a permit from the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey to certify to milk sold in this State, which permit shall be revocable at any time for cause. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $100, to be sued for and recovered by and in the name of the director of health or by the local health officer, local board of health or other board or officer exercising the powers of a local board of health, of any local jurisdiction within which such violations may occur, in the same manner as penalties incurred for violation of an act entitled "An act to secure the purity of foods, beverages, confectionery, condiments, drugs and medicines, and to prevent deception in the distribution and sales thereof" (Revision of 1907[)], and approved May 20, 1907, are sued for and recovered.

Certified Milk and Cream-Production, Handling, and Sale. (Reg. Dept. of H., Nov. 9, 1920.)

CHAPTER XI. REGULATION 1. Sale of certified milk.-No person shall distribute or sell, or have in possession with intent to distribute or sell, as certified milk or cream, any milk or cream which has not been produced on a dairy operating under an agreement with a duly incorporated medical milk commission, and which is not produced, distributed, and sold in accordance with the regulations hereinafter set forth.

REG. 2. Agreements.-Certified milk shall be produced in accordance with uniform, written agreements between the dairymen and the medical milk commissions. Such agreement shall require the observance of the rules and regulations hereinafter set forth.

REG. 3. Certified cream.-The term "Certified milk," as used in these rules and regulations, also includes certified cream produced from certified milk.

DUTIES OF PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES.

REG. 4. Employees designated by medical milk commissions and their duties.-Certified milk shall be produced on dairies operated in accordance with regulations hereinafter set forth under the supervision of medical milk commissions incorporated or licensed in accordance with the provisions of chapter 237 of the laws of 1909 and the amendments and supplements thereto. Before milk may be certified, every milk commission shall designate a veterinarian, a physician, a chemist, a bacteriologist, and a sanitary inspector (who may be one of the previously mentioned employees) and such other persons as the commission may deem necessary to enforce these regulations and the rules of the commissions. These employees shall be required to render regularly written report of their inspections and examinations to the commissions.

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