[Adopted 2-3-1975]
The admittance of any barefooted person to all
establishments licensed by the Lexington Board of Health as food service
establishments, catering establishments, retail food stores, bakeries,
commercial food processing establishments, commissaries, mobile food
server or any establishment where food or drink is prepared for sale
or service on the premises or else where food is served or provided
for the public with or without charge shall be prohibited.
No employer shall permit barefooted persons
to work in food service operations.
The person, firm or corporation or his or its
agents operating all such establishments as defined shall be responsible
for making said regulations known to the general public and shall
be responsible for seeking compliance within their respective establishments.
For the purpose of these regulations:
A.
Establishment exceptions. All establishments operated
as public, semipublic or private swimming pools, clubs, beaches or
other types of establishments where going barefoot is an occupational
necessity shall be exempt from these regulations, except that any
or all food service operations operated in conjunction with these
establishments shall be subject to the provisions of these regulations.
B.
Persons excepted. All persons employed within all
such excepted establishments shall be exempt from the provisions of
these regulations to the extent that they shall not be employed within
any food service operation operated in conjunction with exempted establishments
unless attired with footwear.
These regulations shall in no way nullify the
requirements of articles of the Sanitary Code or other regulations
pertaining to health, disease and safety controls within all above-listed
establishments.
If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase of these rules and regulations shall be decided invalid
for any reason whatsoever, such decision shall not affect the remaining
portions of these regulations, which shall remain in full force and
effect, and to this end the provisions of these regulations are hereby
declared severable.
These rules and regulations were adopted by
vote of the Board of Health of the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts,
on February 3, 1975, and are to be in full force and effect on and
after March 1, 1975, and shall before said effective date be published
in a newspaper published in this town, and a copy thereof shall be
deposited in the office of the Town Clerk.
