26:4-100.7 - Purchase of vaccine to supplement federal grants; distribution - New Jersey Statutes

26:4-100.7.  Purchase of vaccine to supplement federal grants; distribution
    The State Commissioner of Health (hereinafter referred to as  "the commissioner" ) is authorized and directed, without compliance with chapter 48 of the laws of 1954, to purchase poliomyelitis vaccine supplementing that which  may be made available pursuant to conditions of Federal grants in sufficient  quantities to inoculate children of this State who shall not have attained the  age of 20 years and for whom free vaccine is not available through the auspices  of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis or because of inability to  pay the cost thereof.  The commissioner shall distribute the vaccine so  purchased or acquired under such plan, procedures and regulations as to him  shall appear necessary or appropriate to accomplish the objective of providing  the vaccine without cost for such children, fairly and equitably, according to  priority groups based upon the relative susceptibility of various age groups of  children to poliomyelitis as determined by the commissioner and upon such  evidence or assurances of use for such children as to the commissioner shall  appear to be adequate and consistent with expeditious distribution of the  vaccine.

     L.1955, c. 69, p. 231, s. 2.