The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey - Department of Health (State health department) · New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.J.S.A. 26:13-23; 26:13-12; Executive Orders 103, 119, 138, 151, 162, 171, 180, 186, 191 and 200 (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-12-15 Dec. 15, 2020
- Effective
- immediately (read as 2020-12-15)
- End
- 'for the duration of the public health emergency originally declared in Executive Order No. 103 (2020), and as extended by Executive Order' (the Public Health Emergency ended June 4, 2021 under EO 244) (read as 2021-06-04)
- In force
- Dec. 15, 2020 to June 4, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingSupply chain
- Addressees
- physicians, nurses, health care providers and facilities administering COVID-19 vaccine
- points of dispensing
- Functions reached
- CB patient base (priority groups; who could be vaccinated and when)
- SC vaccine allocation and reallocation
- CL clinical operations at PODs
- WF workforce (employers' access to vaccination governed by phase)
- Collection
- State health department orders to licensed settings AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS
Operative words
WHEREAS... 'any person who violates the New Jersey Vaccine Education and Prioritization Plan or any procedures contained therein shall be liable for a civil penalty of $500 for each violation';... NOW THEREFORE, I... pursuant to the powers afforded to me under the Emergency Health Powers Act, hereby ORDER the following: 1. Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:13-23, I find that COVID-19 constitutes an emergent [threat]... 2. Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:13-23, the Department of Health is implementing a New Jersey Vaccine Education and Prioritization Plan, which is attached hereto... This Directive shall take effect immediately.
Enforcement
N.J.S.A. 26:13-23 (civil penalty of $500 for each violation, recited); N.J.S.A. 26:13-19
Notes
The instrument that gave New Jersey's phase structure the force of law; the Department's phase memoranda (021, 022, 023, 036, 037) implement it.