2017 New Jersey Revised Statutes
TITLE 18A - EDUCATION
Section 18A:40-10 - Exclusion of teachers and pupils exposed to disease

18A:40-10. Exclusion of teachers and pupils exposed to disease

No teacher or pupil who is a member of a household in which a person is ill with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, yellow fever, typhus fever, cholera, measles, or such other contagious or infectious disease as may be designated by the board of education, or of a household exposed to contagion as aforesaid, shall attend any public school during such illness, nor until the board of education has been furnished with a certificate from the board of health, or from the physician attending such person, or from a medical inspector, certifying that all danger of communicating the disease by the teacher or pupil has passed.

L.1967, c.271.

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