The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- State Sanitary Code, N.J.A.C. 8:24
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- specified businesses: retail food establishments and their owners, managers and employees
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Jersey DUT-NJ
Operative words
When the Department or health authority has reason to suspect that any retail food establishment is or may be a source of foodborne infection, it shall... order appropriate action to be taken which will eliminate the source of infection.... the Department or health authority may cause an order to be issued requiring the establishment to be closed in order to protect the public health.
Penalty
Closure order (hearing within 15 days while the order remains in effect); exclusion of employees; N.J.S.A. 26:1A-10 penalties (Ex. DUT-NJ-005)
What it required
A retail food establishment suspected as a source of infection had to take the corrective action the health authority ordered on pain of closure, and the health authority could order an ill or infected employee to leave and 'order the employer to prohibit such employee from returning to work' until permission was granted (subsection (d)).
Retrieval noteText from Cornell LII's N.J.A.C. mirror. The section's terms are 'foodborne infection'; it is recorded as the Sanitary Code's closure-and-exclusion mechanism for infected food establishments and employees, on which the Department's 2020-2021 dining directives (Exs. NJ-069, NJ-077) and local health officers operated.