30:4A-12 - Prayer-healing believers not required to submit to medical treatment; but only to quarantine and other regulations - New Jersey Statutes

30:4A-12.  Prayer-healing believers not required to submit to medical treatment;  but only to quarantine and other regulations
    Any person who indicates that he subscribes to the art of healing by prayer  as practiced by any well recognized religious denomination, the principles of  which are opposed to medical treatment, shall not be required to submit to  medical treatment unless he, or his parent, guardian or person standing in loco  parentis, consents, and shall, if he desires, receive such other treatment  permitted under Title 45, chapter nine, of Revised Statutes. Any such person,  however, shall be subject to all rules and regulations with reference to  quarantine and isolation in case of contagious or infectious diseases and  subject to physical restraint in case of emergency or violence.

     L.1946, c. 118, p. 554, s. 12.