[Adopted 12-1-1976 as Ch. 7, Art. 2, of the 1976 Revised
Ordinances; amended 11-2-1987; 4-12-2007; 6-14-2007 (Ch. 303, Art. II, of the 1987 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Does not include alcoholic beverages.
Includes all such places operated for profit, known, designated
or called "restaurant," "saloon," "cafe," "bar," "grill," "dining
room," "wagon," "cart," "car," "club," "soda fountain," "ice cream
parlor," "road stand" or "luncheonette," and any other place or location,
permanent or movable, where food, drink, either or both are sold to
be consumed on or near the premises or location.
Includes all such places engaged in the preparation of food
products not intended to be consumed on the premises or to be sold
directly to consumers.
A.
No person shall engage in the business of conducting a wholesale or retail food establishment as defined in § 613-4 hereof until such person shall have first obtained from the Board of Health a license to conduct the same and shall have paid to said Board a fee as provided in the Township ordinances.
B.
A separate license shall be required for each place.
Such licenses shall not be transferable either as to the holder thereof
or as to the location thereof. The person named on the license must
be the actual operator of the business.
C.
Each license shall expire on December 31 next after
its issuance.
No license shall be issued unless the premises
in which the business is to be conducted complies with all ordinances
of the Township and the Board of Health of the Township.
No building, structure or premises shall be
licensed as or used as a restaurant unless said place or premises
is separated from any room used as a dwelling, apartment or tenement
by a solid and substantial wall which shall extend from floor to ceiling
without a door or other opening.
When the Health Officer has reasonable cause
to believe that any eating and drinking establishment or itinerant
eating and drinking establishment or any employee thereof may be a
source of food-borne infection, they are authorized to require the
immediate closing of the eating and drinking establishment concerned
until no further danger of disease outbreak exists or to cause the
immediate exclusion of the employee from the eating and drinking establishment
or to cause an immediate change of operating procedure to correct
those conditions which may be at fault.
