NEW JERSEY
MEDICAL NEGLECT STATUTES
CIVIL MEDICAL NEGLECT STATUTE
A child shall not be considered neglected or abused solely because their parents provide spiritual treatment in accordance with the practices of a recognized religion. However, this exemption does not apply when laws related to communicable diseases and sanitary matters are violated.
New Jersey Civil Statute:
No child who in good faith is under treatment by spiritual means alone through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner thereof shall for this reason alone be considered to be abused or neglected.
New Jersey Revised Statutes §9:6-8.21(c)
The article to which this act is a supplement shall not be construed to deny the right of a parent, guardian or person having the care, custody and control of any child to treat or provide treatment for an ill child in accordance with the religious tenets of any church as authorized by other statutes of this State; provided, that the laws, rules, and regulations relating to communicable diseases and sanitary matters are not violated.
New Jersey Revised Statutes §9:6-1.1
CRIMINAL MEDICAL NEGLECT STATUTE
A child shall not be considered neglected or abused solely because their parents provide spiritual treatment in accordance with the practices of a recognized religion. However, this exemption does not apply when laws related to communicable diseases and sanitary matters are violated.
New Jersey Civil Statute:
[N]o child who in good faith is under treatment by spiritual means alone through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner thereof shall for this reason alone be considered to be abused or neglected.
New Jersey Revised Statutes §9:6-8.21(1)(c)
The article to which this act is a supplement shall not be construed to deny the right of a parent, guardian or person having the care, custody and control of any child to treat or provide treatment for an ill child in accordance with the religious tenets of any church as authorized by other statutes of this State; provided, that the laws, rules, and regulations relating to communicable diseases and sanitary matters are not violated.
New Jersey Revised Statutes §9:6-1.1