N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-6.14
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024
Section 8:57-6.14 - Medical exemptions(a) A student shall not be required to have any specific immunizations, which are medically contraindicated.(b) An institution shall exempt a student from the specific immunization requirements for the stated period of time based on a written statement submitted to the institution by a physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy, or an advanced practice nurse in any jurisdiction of the United States, or in any foreign country, indicating that an immunization is medically contraindicated for a specific period of time, and setting forth the reason(s) for the medical contraindication, based upon valid medical reasons as enumerated by the 2007 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Recommended Child, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization Schedules and the ACIP Recommendations, available as set forth in (b)1 and 2 below: 1. The 2007 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), Recommended Childhood, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization Schedules, which is amended yearly, is available through: i. Verbal request to the Department at (609) 588-7512;ii. Written request mailed to the New Jersey Vaccine Preventable Disease Program, Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369; or(c) An institution shall retain the physician's or an advanced practice nurse's statement as part of the student's immunization record.1. The institution shall annually review the statement to determine whether the exemption shall remain in effect for the next year.2. When the student's medical condition permits immunization, the medical exemption shall thereupon terminate and the student shall be required to obtain the immunization(s) from which he or she has been exempted.(d) An institution may temporarily exclude a student with medical exemptions from receiving specific immunizations, from classes and from participating in institution-sponsored activities during a vaccine-preventable disease outbreak or threatened outbreak. 1. The decision to exclude a student with a medical exemption shall be made by the institution in consultation with the Commissioner and the exclusion shall continue until the outbreak is over or until proof of the student's immunization or immunity is furnished.N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-6.14
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.9 by R.2002 d.264, effective 8/19/2002.
See: 33 N.J.R. 2752(a), 34 N.J.R. 3023(a).
Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.10, Religious exemptions, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.11.
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.10 and amended by R.2005 d.262, effective 8/15/2005.
See 36 N.J.R. 3335(a), 37 N.J.R. 3037(b).
Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.11 recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.12.
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.11 and amended by R.2009 d.107, effective 4/6/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1962(a), 41 N.J.R. 1419(a).
Rewrote the section. Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.14, Reports to be submitted to the Department of Health and Senior Services, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.17.The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available