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<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,
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<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
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<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
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<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
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