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42 <br />GENERAL ORDINANCES 165 <br />health of the operatives, clerks, or other persons therein em- <br />ployed. No food shall be kept, stored or sold in a damp place. <br />Except at night, live poultry shall not be kept in the same room <br />or compartment in which meat or other foodstuffs are kept or <br />offered for sale. <br />Sec. 402. Food establishments—ice boxes. <br />All ice boxes and refrigerators in food establishments shall at <br />all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. All different <br />articles of food stored in ice boxes shall be kept in separate con- <br />tainers. <br />Sec. 403. Food establishments—garbage cans. <br />All food establishments shall be equipped with covered, water- <br />tight metallic cans of sufficient size for retaining and keeping <br />garbage and waste in a sanitary manner and shall at all times <br />be kept covered and so disposed as not to cause a nuisance. <br />Sec. 404. Food establishments —employees, washing fa- <br />cilities, etc. <br />No one shall sleep or be permitted to sleep in any room where <br />food is stored, prepared, cooked or served. No employee or <br />other person in any way connected with the handling, cooking, <br />or preparing of any foodstuffs or products in any food establish- <br />ment shall engage at work following a visit to a water -closet, <br />urinal, or toilet room, without first thoroughly cleansing his or <br />her hands. Washing facilities shall at all times be maintained <br />in a clean and sanitary condition. Water, soap, individual clean <br />towels and individual drinking glasses shall be furnished those <br />employed. <br />Sec. 405. Food establishments—toilet facilities. <br />It shall be unlawful to operate, maintain, or conduct any busi- <br />ness where the process of production, manufacture, packing, <br />canning, selling, or disposing of food products for consumption <br />is conducted in any building, room or basement, unless the per- <br />son so owning, conducting, managing or operating said business <br />shall provide or cause to be provided a sanitary toilet, which <br />shall be located separate and apart. All doors opening directly <br />into the room or rooms wherein such process of production, <br />166 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE <br />manufacturing, packing, canning, selling or disposition is con- <br />ducted, shall be solid and have automatic closing devices. Every <br />urinal, water -closet or toilet shall be kept in a clean and sanitary <br />condition at all times, and a standard disinfectant shall be used <br />constantly in such urinals, water -closets and toilets. <br />Sec. 406. Food establishments—clothing of employees, <br />expectoration, etc. <br />Every person employed in a food establishment or engaged in <br />handling articles of food to be sold or offered for sale shall be <br />clean in person at all times and wear clean garments when en- <br />gaged in the preparation or disposition of foods. No employee <br />or other person shall expectorate on the floors or walks of any <br />such food establishment. <br />Sec. 407. Food establishments — infectious diseases <br />and disease carriers. <br />It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the handling <br />or dispensing of foodstuffs in any food establishment while suf- <br />fering from or a carrier of contagious or infectious disease. It <br />shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the handling, <br />preparation, sale or dispensing of any foodstuffs or be employed <br />at any food establishment during the time a case of infectious, <br />contagious or communicable disease exists at the place where <br />such person resides, or during the time that such place is quaran- <br />tined or thereafter until the quarantine shall have been removed, <br />except with the permission of the Health Officer. It shall be <br />unlawful for any proprietor, manager, or other person in charge <br />of a food establishment to employ any person suffering from any <br />infectious, contagious or communicable disease, or known to be <br />a carrier of same, or residing at a place where an infectious, con- <br />tagious or communicable disease exists. Violation of the pro- <br />visions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than <br />twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each <br />offense, and each day shall constitute a separate offense. <br />Sec. 408. Food establishments — physical examination <br />of food handlers required. <br />The Health Officer shall be empowered to order any physical <br />GENERAL ORDINANCES 167 <br />or laboratory examination of any employee at any time that may <br />be deemed necessary to determine whether a communicable dis- <br />ease exists. <br />Sec. 409. Food—spoiled, diseased or adulterated food. <br />Whenever any health, sanitary, police or other officer of the <br />Health Department of the City shall find in any food establish- <br />ment or other place any rotten, diseased, unwholesome, adulter- <br />ated or misbranded foodstuffs, substance or articles intended for <br />human food or drink, it shall be the duty of such officer or agent <br />to notify the owner, manager, or person in charge of such arti- <br />cles to remove such foodstuffs or articles to some proper place <br />and destroy the same in the presence of said officer or agent, or <br />such officer or agent may seize such foodstuff or articles and de- <br />stroy it, provided that said officer or agent may retain any amount <br />desired for examination or use as evidence in any prosecution <br />under this section. It shall further be unlawful for any person, <br />firm or corporation, after notification by the Health Officer to <br />offer for sale or sell vegetables that have grown on soil that has <br />been impregnated or fertilized with human excrement within a <br />period of twelve months from time of such fertilization. All <br />containers in which spoiled food has been placed shall be thor- <br />oughly cleansed before a second use. <br />Sec. 410. Meats, handling of food, etc. <br />All beef, pork, mutton, goat, poultry, fish, oysters, and shell <br />fish and other meats offered for sale shall be subject to inspection <br />by a proper representative of the Health Officer, who shall have <br />power to condemn any such meats or fowl unfit for human con- <br />sumption. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- <br />tion engaged in the sale of meats and other foodstuffs to per- <br />mit meat articles of food which are of such nature that they may <br />be defiled or polluted by handling to be exposed for sale in such <br />manner that they may be handled by prospective purchasers or <br />others by whom such handling is not necessary. Meats, meat <br />products, or other foodstuffs shall not be brought into, trans- <br />ported or sold in the City unless properly covered and adequately <br />protected against pollution, flies, dust, dirt, etc. Meats, meat <br />products, fish and shell fish on sale or in storage shall be kept in <br />168 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE <br />iced refrigerators or iced containers. Any person selling, or <br />offering for sale any beef, pork, mutton, or goat which has not <br />been killed and inspected at an abattoir approved by the Health <br />Officer, shall first obtain a permit from the City Health Officer. <br />Such meat and all animals to be slaughtered and the premises <br />where slaughtered shall at all times be subject to inspection by a <br />representative of the Health Officer. It shall be unlawful for <br />any person knowingly to sell or offer for sale any part of the <br />carcass of a diseased animal unless approved by an accredited <br />veterinarian. The penalty for the violation of this section shall <br />be the revocation of the permit and a fine of not less than $100 <br />or thirty days in jail, or both. <br />Sec. 411. Wrap bread. <br />All bread, rolls, biscuits, cakes and pies and all other baked <br />goods, sold, exchanged or delivered in the City shall be closely <br />wrapped in a clean paper before leaving the building, provided, <br />however, the provisions of this section shall not apply to hotels, <br />restaurants, boarding houses, or other places where bread is <br />made for their own use. <br />Sec. 412. Milk served in food establishments. <br />It shall be unlawful for any person keeping, maintaining, or <br />managing any hotel, inn, cafe, restaurant, lunch room, soda foun- <br />tain, refreshment stand, or other place where milk is sold or <br />distributed to the general public in the City, to serve, or to offer <br />to serve, to any person, any milk, except buttermilk, unless it be <br />in a regulation bottle tightly stoppered and bearing the name of <br />the individual, firm, or corporation, on the bottle cap in legible <br />type who was responsible for bottling said milk. Said milk shall <br />be bottled in a lawfully constructed bottling room at the dairy <br />farm or milk depot, and in no case shall be bottled in any other <br />place. <br />Sec. 413. Ice cream and soft drinks, etc. <br />All ice cream parlors, soda fountains, and other places where <br />ice cream, sodas, milk, soft drinks and soda fountain sundries <br />are sold shall comply with the following requirements: <br />(a) All utensils shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned after <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />