[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 1]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
BUTCHER
Any person engaged in the business of keeping or driving any cattle or in selling any meat.
CATTLE
All animals, except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part of the body is used as food.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE
Any disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature with which any person may be sick, affected or attacked, including cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, varioloid, diphtheria, ship or typhus, typhoid and scarlet fever, plague, trichinosis, membranous croup, leprosy, syphilis and any other disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential nature.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Department of Health of the Township.
FISH
Every part of any animal that lives in water.
MEAT
Every part of any land animal.
PRIVATE MARKET
Every store, cellar, stand or place, not being a part of a public market, at which the business is the buying, selling or keeping for sale of meat, milk, fish or vegetables for human food.
PUBLIC PLACES
Parks, piers, docks and wharves and water and open space thereto adjacent, public yards, grounds and areas and open spaces between buildings and streets and all manner of buildings which the public have access to and where people congregate, including churches, theaters, moving-picture houses, stations, depots and other places of like type.
VEGETABLE
The edible part of any plant.
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Editor's Note: Former §§ 17-2, Retail Food Handling Establishment Code adopted; amendments, and 17-3, Code filed, of the 1965 Code, each as amended by Ord. No. 1259, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II). Former § 17-4 of the 1965 Code was repealed by Ord. No. 1259.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15,§ 8]
Every person having charge or being interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care or custody or sale of any meat, fish, bird, fowl or vegetables or other substances designed for human food shall put and preserve such substances in a clean and wholesome condition, and shall not allow the same or any part thereof to be poisoned, infected or rendered unwholesome or unsafe for human food.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 9]
No person shall sell or expose for sale any drink, meat, fish or vegetable or other matter designed for human food that is decayed, putrefied or has become chemically or physically changed so that it is unwholesome or unfit for food.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to authority of Township to prevent the sale or exposure for sale of any meat or vegetable that is unwholesome or unfit for food, see N.J.S.A. 26:3-31j.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 15]
Whenever any member of the Department of Health or any chemist, inspector or other employee of the Department of Health shall find meat, fish, bird, fowl, vegetable or other food of a perishable nature exposed or offered for sale or had in possession with intent to sell, in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or in the state of rottenness or putrefaction or in any condition which renders it, in his opinion, unwholesome or unfit for use as human food, he shall condemn the same and cause it to be destroyed or disposed of in such a manner as to make it impossible to be thereafter used as human food.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to condemnation and destruction of food, see N.J.S.A. 24:4-1 et seq.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 7]
Any person, being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, stall or place where meat, fish or vegetables or other substances designated or held for human food is stored or kept or held or offered for sale, shall put and keep such room, stall and place and its appurtenances in a clean and wholesome condition.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 18, § 32]
All refrigerators or iceboxes maintained in any warehouse, mercantile business or other place wherein animal or vegetable matter or dairy products are kept or stored shall be open at all times when such business is being carried on, to inspection by the Department of Health or any authorized agent of the department. No person engaged in any such storage or mercantile business shall allow any animal or vegetable matter or dairy products which are foul or which are in a state of decay, to remain within such refrigerator, icebox or other place of storage, nor allow such refrigerators, iceboxes or other places of storage to become foul or malodorous through the lack of proper cleaning and disinfecting.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to cold storage, see N.J.S.A. § 24:9-21 et seq.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 5]
All bakers, butchers, grocers and dealers in foodstuffs of any kind shall effectively protect all bread, pies, cakes, pastry, meat and other foodstuffs of any kind intended for human consumption from contamination from flies, dirt, dust and other sources of pollution by securely wrapping the same with paper, canvas or other sanitary coverings, or by placing the articles of foodstuffs in a sanitary container or placing food behind a glass or plastic enclosure satisfactory to the Department of Health, whenever the articles of foodstuffs, if not so wrapped and protected, would be exposed to the open air.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 6]
Whenever any articles of foodstuffs shall be conveyed in a vehicle of any kind for the purpose of peddling or for the purpose of delivery to customers the articles of foodstuffs shall either be protected and covered in the manner specified in § 17-13 or such vehicle, so used in conveying or transporting the articles of foodstuffs, shall be entirely enclosed on all sides, in order to protect the articles of foodstuffs from contamination, or being rendered unsanitary by exposure to flies, dirt, dust or other sources of pollution.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 11]
No food shall be offered for sale from shelves, counters or other containers which shall be less than 24 inches from the floor of the store in which such food is exposed for sale, or from the sidewalk or other surface on which such shelves, counters or other containers shall stand, except those sealed in airtight containers.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 16]
All persons engaged in the business of dispensing ice cream or refreshments may use paper containers for dispensing such ice cream or refreshments and shall sterilize by heat or boiling water all glasses, cups, dishes or other containers and utensils used in dispensing such ice cream or other refreshments.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to ice cream and other frozen products, see N.J.S.A. 24:10-73.1 et seq.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to sanitation in food establishments see N.J.S.A. 24:15-1 et seq. As to authority of Township to license and regulate the sanitary conditions of restaurants, cafes, etc., see N.J.S.A. 26:3-31c. See also N.J.S.A. 40:52-1d.
[Ord. No. 1002. § 5; amended by Ord. No. 1259, § 4; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art II)]
Any person who violates any provision of or order promulgated under §§ 17-21 to 17-28 shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not more than $200 for each violation. Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.