TEXT OF LAW:
26:1A-7. State Sanitary Code
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.
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