[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Steelton as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 11-8-1954, approved 11-9-1954]
A. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
EMPLOYEE
Any person employed or permitted to work in the proprietor's business who, in any manner whatsoever, handles or comes in contact with any food, food products or drink served to, sold or provided for the public, and the proprietor or any member of the proprietor's family, who handles said food, food products or drink.
PROPRIETOR
Any person, partnership, association or corporation conducting or operating within the Borough of Steelton a public eating or drinking place or a public food merchandising establishment.
PUBLIC EATING OR DRINKING PLACE
Any place within the Borough of Steelton where food or drink is served to or provided for the public, with or without charge, including, among others, hotels, restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, boardinghouses, ice cream parlors, soft drink fountains and bars or taverns.
PUBLIC FOOD MERCHANDISING ESTABLISHMENT
Any establishment within the Borough of Steelton where food and food products are sold to the public for consumption off the premises of the seller, including, among others, grocery, delicatessen, candy, meat, poultry, seafood and bakery shops, stores, markets or stands.
B. 
Wherever appropriate, words used in this article in the singular may include the plural or the plural may be read as the singular; and the masculine may include the feminine.
No proprietor shall hereafter work or keep in his employ any employee who is suffering from trachoma, active tuberculosis of the lungs, open skin tuberculosis, infectious or contagious syphilis, gonorrhea, open external cancer or barber's itch, or other infectious or contagious disease; and any such employee who at the time of the passage of this article, is suffering from any of the above named diseases shall at once be excluded from such employment in such public eating or drinking place or such public food merchandising establishment.
Every employee of any public eating or drinking place or of any public food merchandising establishment shall obtain a certificate from a registered doctor of medicine, certifying that such employee is free from the diseases mentioned in § 62-2; and no employee shall be employed or permitted to work in such public eating or drinking place or public food merchandising establishment in the Borough of Steelton without having first obtained such certificate. Said certificates or certificate shall be in the form prescribed by the Board of Health of the Borough of Steelton. All such certificates shall be filed with the said Board of Health within five days from the date of said medical examination, and shall be filed on January 1 and July 1 of each year. Further, all such certificates shall be valid for a period of six months, except that when employment begins at a time between January 1 and July 1, the certificate shall be filed within five days from the date of said medical examination, and shall be valid from the date of issue until the first day of January or the first day of July next succeeding, whichever shall be first. Any certificate may be revoked at any time prior thereto when such action is deemed advisable by the said Board of Health.
In addition to the certificate of health provided for in § 62-3, every employee of any public eating or drinking place or any public food merchandising establishment shall cause to have made a chest x-ray examination, and no employee shall be employed or permitted to work in such public eating or drinking place or public food merchandising establishment in the Borough of Steelton without having first obtained such x-ray. Proof that such x-ray examination was negative shall be in the form prescribed by the Board of Health. Such forms shall be filed with the Board of Health as soon after x-ray examination as is practical. Further, all such x-ray examinations shall be valid for a period of one year. Any employee may be required to have made additional chest x-ray examinations whenever such action is deemed advisable by the Board of Health.
No proprietor shall work or permit any employee to work in any public eating or drinking place or in any food merchandising establishment conducted or operated by him, if such employee or employer shall have had typhoid fever, for a period of 60 days after the attending physician has certified that he has completely recovered, or if such employee or employer has been exposed to typhoid fever, for a period of 30 days after such exposure, or if such employee or employer is a carrier of typhoid fever, after a notice that such employee is such carrier has been served, in writing, upon him by a physician or the public health authorities.
Every employee of any public eating or drinking place or of any public food merchandising establishment shall wear or display at a conspicuous place on his clothing, at all times while engaged in the duties of his employment, a badge which shall be issued by the aforesaid Board of Health, upon the payment of a fee of $0.25 to cover the cost thereof, evidencing that such employee is a holder of a health certificate, as required by § 62-3, and that such employee had caused to be made a chest x-ray examination within the preceding year which was negative, as required by § 62-4.
No proprietor shall work or permit any employee to work in any public eating or drinking place or in any public food merchandising establishment conducted or operated by him without wearing or displaying the badge required by § 62-6.
[Amended 5-20-1976 by Ord. No. 76-4, approved 5-20-1976]
Any person, partnership, association or corporation or any officer, agent, servant or employee thereof violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice,[1] be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $300, and costs of prosecution, to be collected as other fines and costs are by law collectible, and in default in payment of said fine and costs, shall undergo imprisonment in the local or Dauphin County jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.
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Editor's Note: Now Magisterial District Judge.
[Adopted 3-15-1971 by Ord. No. 71-5, approved 3-15-1971]
The proprietor of each public eating or drinking place within the Borough of Steelton shall pay to the Borough for the inspection of the premises by the Health Officer of said Borough, to be licensed under the provisions of the Act of May 23, 1945, P.L. 926, as amended,[1] the sum of $5 annually.
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Editor's Note: The Public Eating and Drinking Place Law, 35 P.S. § 655.1 et seq., was repealed by 2010, November 23, P.L. 1039, No. 106, effective January 24, 2011. See now the Retail Food Facility Safety Act, 3 Pa.C.S.A. § 5701 et seq.