{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-59-6-5","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 59:6-5","heading":"Immunity from liability for failure to diagnose certain conditions; exceptions.","body":"a.  Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for injury resulting from diagnosing or failing to diagnose that a person has a mental illness or is a person with a substance use disorder involving drugs or from failing to prescribe for mental illness or a substance use disorder involving drugs; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection exonerates a public entity or a public employee who has undertaken to prescribe for a mental illness or a substance use disorder involving drugs from liability for injury proximately caused by negligence or by a wrongful act in so prescribing.\nb.\tNothing in subsection a. exonerates a public entity or a public employee from liability for injury proximately caused by a negligent or wrongful act or omission in administering any treatment prescribed for a mental illness or a substance use disorder involving drugs.\nAmended 2017, c.131, s.218.\nL.1972, c. 45, s. 59:6-5; amended 2017, c.131, s.218.","path":["TITLE 59 CLAIMS AGAINST PUBLIC ENTITIES"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"d9de4fe16a59b2bd2af2d9ab6959c5eb1bc591de0a0ce209eb907ad35b4cb43c","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-59-6-4","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-59-6-6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}