Borough of Woodcliff Lake, NJ Adoption of State Code

All existing retail food establishments in operation at time of the adoption of this article, including restaurants, diners and any other establishment selling or serving food excluding prepackaged food, in the Borough of Woodcliff Lake must meet the following requirements to obtain a food establishment license. The owner, manager or employee in charge of other employees serving food on each shift must successfully complete a course prescribed by the Woodcliff Lake Board of Health. There are two such courses, an eighteen-hour food managers course and a three-hour food handlers course. These food handlers courses pertain to food safety, health education, sanitization, personal hygiene, foodborne illness, dishwashing and sanitizing procedures, microorganisms, insects and rodents and other health related matters. The certificate of satisfactory completion of the three-hour food handlers course is valid for two years from the date of issuance, and the eighteen-hour certificate of satisfactory completion for the food managers course shall be effective for four years from the date of issuance. This is a prerequisite to any license being issued to a retail food establishment after the appropriate fees have been paid. This certificate must be available in the establishment at all times.

Each year thereafter, or such other date as may be fixed by the Woodcliff Lake Board of Health, where an owner, manager or employee in charge of other employees serving food on each particular shift has not completed the three-hour food handlers course or the eighteen-hour food managers course as set forth in § 399-5A of this article, the Woodcliff Lake Board of Health may issue a temporary retail food license which shall be issued for 90 days of that year. For the issuance of such a temporary retail food license, the retail food establishment shall pay the normal fee charged for the permit, together with a special surcharge for the temporary retail food license in the amount as set forth in Chapter 396, Fees. No part of the surcharge shall be returned. The surcharge shall be used for the sole purpose of administering this article for those retail food establishments whose owner, manager or employee in charge of other employees serving food on each particular shift has not successfully completed the three-hour food handlers course or the eighteen-hour food managers course.

[Amended 11-4-2009 by Ord. No. 09-16]

Whenever a license is issued to a new owner of a retail food establishment where food is prepared, the owner or designated manager (the person who is actively engaged in the daily operation) is required to take the first available eighteen-hour food manager's certification course and employees in charge of other employees serving food on a particular shift must take the three-hour food handlers course. The Woodcliff Lake Board of Health shall issue a temporary retail food license, which shall remain in effect for 90 days from the date of its issuance or until the required eighteen-hour food manager's certification course and three-hour food handlers course has been given and satisfactorily completed. For the issuance of such a temporary retail food license, the retail food establishment shall pay the normal fee charged for the permit, together with a special surcharge for the temporary retail food license in the amount as set forth in Chapter 396, Fees. No part of the surcharge shall be returned.

[Amended 11-4-2009 by Ord. No. 09-16]

If there is no individual in charge of other employees serving food to others on each particular shift who has satisfactorily completed the eighteen-hour food manager's certification course or three-hour food handlers course in accordance with this article, then the retail food establishment shall be issued a summons to appear before the judge to answer the violation. This also applies to those in violation of § 399-5C.

This article shall also apply to all facilities under the jurisdiction of Chapter 24 of the Sanitary Code, N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.1 et seq.

[Amended 4-5-2007 by Ord. No. 07-03; 11-4-2009 by Ord. No. 09-16]

Each licensee shall pay a license fee for the issuance of a license to operate a retail food establishment or other food-related business in the Borough of Woodcliff Lake as established by the Board of Health:[2]

[Amended 4-18-2016 by Ord. No. 16-04]

	Food Handling Establishments
	Bakery	Packaged food store
	Cafeteria/industrial cafeteria	School
	Deli	Stationary store
	Institutions	Supermarket
	Mobile vending	Snack bar
	Movie concession	Truck peddler
	Nursery school	Assisted living facility
	Day care	Vending machines dispensing potentially hazardous food
	Hotels/motels	Vending machines dispensing not potentially hazardous food
	Caterers
	Temporary (seasonal)	Temporary (one day)
	Sit down or take-out restaurants based on seating capacity	Motorized food vendors (aka "food trucks"

[2]

Editor’s Note: See Ch. 396, Fees.

[1]

Editor's Note: Original § 270-5, Authority, original § 270-6, Title, as amended, and original § 270-7, State code on file, as amended, which immediately preceded this section, were repealed 11-4-2009 by Ord. No. 09-16.