[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Carteret
6-9-1978 as Art. IX of the 1978 Revised Ordinances. Section 316-10 amended
at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 277, General Provisions, Board of Health,
Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any vehicle used in whole or in part for the transportation of offal,
tankage, blood, feathers, bones, hides, pelts and similar animal, fish or
fowl by-products to or from locations within the Borough of Carteret.
An establishment where one (1) or more of the following items are
cooked, melted down, extracted, clarified or otherwise processed to produce
oil, tallow, grease, fertilizer or animal feed: carcasses of animals or fowl,
dead animals or fowl, fish, blood, offal, bones, meat, animal or vegetable
fat, feathers, food scraps or waste and other animal, fowl or fish by-products.
"Rendering plant" shall not include an establishment exclusively producing
fats, oils, lard or similar products for human consumption nor a rendering
process in connection with and incidental to a slaughterhouse, abattoir, packing
plant or similar establishment producing food for human consumption.
All cooking equipment, barrels, bins, presses, conveyors, grinders,
hogs, tanks and other equipment which is used to convey, hold or process raw
materials shall be thoroughly cleaned at least weekly. All other equipment
shall be cleaned as often as necessary to maintain it in a sanitary condition
and to prevent a nuisance from odors.
Rendering plant floors, raw material storage areas, processed material
storage areas, truck washing areas, driveways and truck parking and maneuvering
areas shall be constructed of concrete or other hard paving material impervious
to water. All such paved areas shall be sloped to drains which are connected
to an approved clarifier which, in turn, is connected to the sewer. Drains
in uncovered areas and those drains which may receive excessive runoff of
floodwaters during rainstorms shall be connected to the clarifier through
an approved rain-diversion valve. Liquid waste runoff from rendering plant
paved areas shall be contained on the plant premises by the use of curbing,
slopes, troughs, driveway entrance drains or other methods which will effectively
prevent such liquid waste from running onto public sidewalks, streets or other
public or private property.
A.
Storage area. All animal, fowl and fish by-products and
other raw materials shall be stored in a designated raw material storage area
only. The paved raw material storage area shall be curbed, sloped or troughed
to prevent liquid waste from the raw materials seeping or flowing to surrounding
areas.
B.
Storage time limitation.
(1)
All raw materials and partially processed or partially
cooked materials, upon delivery to the rendering plant, shall be placed in
the raw material storage area, and such material shall be processed within
a forty-eight-hour period after arrival at the rendering plant. If, for any
reason, any raw material cannot be processed within the foregoing time limitation,
the rendering plant operator shall notify the Borough of Carteret Department
of Public Health. The Health Department, after investigating the reasons for
delay, may permit the raw material to be stored for additional time or may
direct the rendering plant operator to dispose of all such material until
such time as the rendering plant can again properly process raw material within
the designated storage time period.
(2)
Any raw material which cannot be processed within the
forty-eight-hour time limitation shall be treated with a suitable chemical
which will retard decay and mask odor emanating from such material.
If a delay in the normal processing of raw materials is due to a major
breakdown of equipment and such delay may be in excess of seventy-two (72)
hours, all cookers shall be immediately emptied and all existing raw material
and partially cooked material shall be removed from the rendering plant property
and shall be disposed of by legal means. All raw material deliveries to the
rendering plant shall be immediately discontinued, and no future raw material
deliveries shall be made until such time as the rendering plant is again placed
in normal operation and the Health Department has approved the resumption
of raw material deliveries.
All rendering plants shall continually maintain an effective rodent
and insect control program within the plant and on the premises. Such control
program shall include a thorough inspection of the plant and premises at least
once a week to detect harborages and breeding areas and the use of rodenticides,
insecticides and other effective means to eliminate rodents and insects and
to prevent future harborage and breeding of rodents and insects.
The premises of all rendering plants shall be cleaned at least once
each day by scraping, brushing or washing paved areas where required, and
all such areas shall be kept free of refuse, trash or accumulating raw materials.
Truck beds, tanks, luggers, barrels and other containers used for transporting
raw material by-products shall be made of metal, be leakproof and be so constructed
that the material transported cannot fall, drip, seep, drain or splash from
the conveyance during transportation. Offal vehicles shall be maintained in
good repair and in a sanitary condition. All offal vehicles shall be well
painted, and the permittee's name or firm name, together with his telephone
number and street address, shall be printed or painted in legible letters
not less than three (3) inches in height on both sides of the truck, lugger
of other conveyance. Trucks, luggers, containers or other conveyances shall
be thoroughly cleaned following each time they have delivered a load of raw
material to the rendering plant. All joints and seams shall be welded, and
the bodies shall be watertight and constructed in such a manner as to permit
thorough cleaning.
A.
No person shall operate a retail food handling establishment
unless a license to operate the same shall have been issued by the Carteret
Board of Health. Such license shall be posted in a conspicuous place in such
establishment.
B.
There shall be a charge of five hundred dollars ($500.)
for such license.
C.
Licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter
shall expire annually on December 31 of each year, and application for renewal
thereof shall be submitted, together with the required fee, prior to February
1 of each year.
D.
A license issued by another Board of Health is not transferable.
E.
A license may be suspended or revoked for a violation
by the holder of any provision of this chapter or code after an opportunity
for a hearing by the Board of Health or its authorized representative.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.).
A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which
a violation occurs or continues.
No provision of this chapter shall be applied so as to impose any unlawful
burden on either interstate commerce or any activity of the state or federal
government.
The enforcing agencies of this chapter will be the Carteret Board of
Health and any other appropriate municipal agency.
