As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
EMPLOYEE
Any person who handles food or drink during its preparation
or serving or comes in contact with any eating or cooking utensils
or who is employed in a room in which food or drink is prepared or
served. This shall include the proprietor or any member of the proprietor's
family who handles food and drink. The masculine shall be interpreted
to include the feminine and neuter pronoun.
LICENSE
The permission granted to a licensee to conduct a public
eating and drinking place.
LICENSOR or BOARD
The Board of Health of Eddystone Borough or its duly designated
Health Officer or Deputy Health Officer.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT
Any place which has been newly constructed and/or in which
a change of ownership has taken place.
PROPRIETOR
Any person, partnership, association or corporation conducting
or operating within the limits of the Borough a public eating or drinking
place.
PUBLIC EATING and DRINKING PLACE
Restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order cafe, luncheonette,
tavern, sandwich stand, soda fountain, private club, hospital kitchen,
dining room or snack bar, industrial kitchen, dining room, cafeteria
or snack bar, school lunchroom or cafeteria or any other place where
food, drinks or refreshments are served, sold or prepared and sold
or given away, to be consumed on the premises; provided, however,
that this definition shall not be interpreted to include boardinghouses
or private homes.
All kitchen, stands and counters where food is prepared shall
be equipped with or have adjacent thereto separate hand-washing facilities
for the washing and cleansing of the hands, equipped with automatic
running hot and cold water, soap and sanitary towels.
Automatic running hot and cold water under pressure of not less
than 15 pounds per square inch shall be easily accessible to all rooms
in which food is prepared or utensils are washed and shall be adequate
and of a safe, sanitary quality.
All liquid waste resulting from the cleansing and rinsing of
utensils and floors and from flush toilets and lavatories must be
disposed of in a public sewer or, in the absence of a public sewer,
all garbage must be stored in nonleaking metal containers with tight-fitting
lids or in an approved garbage storage room, and all waste material
must be kept free of garbage and stored in nonleaking metal containers
with tight-fitting lids or in an approved waste material storage room
and be covered at all times. Garbage and other waste materials must
be removed from the premises as often as necessary to prevent a nuisance
and shall be disposed of in a manner to be approved by the Health
Officer. All garbage and waste receptacles must be washed when emptied
and treated with a disinfectant if necessary to prevent a nuisance.
Adequate can washing facilities shall be provided.
All readily perishable food or drink shall be kept at temperatures
lower than 40° F., except when being prepared or served. All refrigerators
must be equipped with an indicating thermometer accurate to plus and
minus 2° F., located in the warmest part of the facility in which
food is stored and of such type and so situated that the thermometer
can easily and readily be observed for reading and maintained in a
clean and sanitary condition. Wastewater from refrigeration equipment
shall be disposed of in accordance with the Plumbing Code of the Borough
of Eddystone.
All food and drink shall be stored, handled, cooked, processed, prepared, displayed or dispensed as provided under Article
II hereof. Sugar served in all public eating and drinking places shall be dispensed from containers which provide protection against dirt, dust, other contamination and human handling at all times, except in the case of lump or packaged sugar which is individually wrapped. Unwrapped or otherwise unprotected displayed food which is subject to contamination through public handling, coughing or sneezing shall be protected by means of glass or similar partitions or through other approved means.
All food handlers shall wear clean garments and shall keep their
hands and fingernails clean at all times when engaged in the handling
of food, drink, utensils or equipment. All female employees shall
wear hair nets while engaged in the preparation of food. All male
employees shall wear caps while engaged in the preparation of food.
All food handlers who in any manner come in contact with or handle
food shall, before beginning work, thoroughly wash their hands with
soap and water. No employee shall use tobacco in any form while engaged
in the preparation or handling of food and drink.
All persons engaged in the operation of any public eating and
drinking place shall be required to take all necessary precautions
to keep the premises free of rats and vermin. In the case of rat or
vermin infestation, operators shall report such infestation to the
Health Officer for the purpose of procuring proper advice and instructions
in order to eliminate the nuisance. ln the case of all new establishments,
all rooms in which food or drink is prepared, stored or served shall
be of a ratproof construction.
An official representative of the Board or Health Officer in
the performance of any duty imposed by this chapter shall have full
access to any place, container, conveyance or records used in the
production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, transportation,
handling, distribution or sale of any food. Without any prior notice,
he/she shall be entitled to make an examination, open any package
or container, examine records and take therefrom a sample for analysis
of any food manufactured, sold, exposed for sale or found to be in
possession of the proprietor in violation of any provisions of these
rules and regulations.
Such samples of food, drink, ingredients, containers or any
substance used in connection with the preparation of food or drink
may be taken by a duly authorized representative of the Board or Health
Officer for examination as often as may be deemed necessary for the
detection of any impure or unsanitary condition. Any food, drink or
any substance used in connection with the preparation of food or drink
sold, offered for sale or kept may be condemned, removed or destroyed
by or under the direction of a duly authorized representative of the
Board if, in the judgment of such representative, such food, drink
or substance is decomposed, contaminated, impure, unfit for human
consumption or dangerous to the public health. Any such food, drink
or other substance may be stopped from sale or use and placed under
an embargo by any such representative of the Board for such reasonable
period of time as may be required to make investigation or examination,
if such may be necessary to determine that such food, drink or other
substance is decomposed, impure, unfit for human consumption or dangerous
to the public health. No such food, drink or other substance shall
be used, removed, destroyed or otherwise disposed of while under such
embargo except by or under the direction of a representative of the
Board.