As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The Town Manager or other official designated by him to enforce
this article.
Includes any person, whether employer or employee, who handles
food or drink during preparation or serving, or who comes in contact
with any eating, drinking or cooking utensil, or who works in a room
in which food or drink is prepared or served.
Includes restaurants, hotels, groceries, taverns, box lunch
establishments, bakeries, meat markets, delicatessens, luncheonettes,
caterers, soda fountains, food vending vehicles, and any other place
in which food or drink is prepared or stored for public consumption,
distribution or sale at retail.
A.Â
No food handler shall handle food in any retail food handling establishment
in the Town without first having obtained a permit to do so.
B.Â
No person owning or carrying on a retail food handling establishment
shall employ any food handler without first ascertaining that a permit
or certificate of application has been issued to such food handler
and that is presently in force.
A.Â
Application for permit shall be made to the Clerk on forms provided
to be completed by the applicant. The completed application shall
contain the following information: the name and address of the applicant
and the place of his present or prospective employment, his age, weight,
physical defects, if any, a history of his contagious or infectious
diseases including typhoid fever, venereal disease, tuberculosis,
alcoholism, drug addiction, and such other information as the Town
Manager or advisory Board of Health may from time to time require.
B.Â
The Town Clerk shall forward all applications to the advisory Board
of Health prior to its next ensuing regular meeting at which time
the application will be reviewed by the board. The board shall recommend
to the Town Manager that the permit be issued unless the application
discloses information which, in the opinion of the board, is sufficient
grounds for either requiring medical examination or a denial of the
application.
No charge shall be made in connection with the application for
or issuance of a food handlers' permit. The Town Clerk shall
issue the permit within three days after the approval of the application.
Permits shall run from July 1 to June 30 and all food handlers
to whom permits have been issued shall make application for renewal
prior to May 15 of the year in which the permit will expire. No permit
shall be renewed until the applicant furnishes satisfactory proof
of attendance at a food handlers' seminar in the six-month period
immediately preceding the renewal permit, unless the applicant can
demonstrate to the satisfaction of the board that he has been unable
to attend for good reason and can demonstrate an awareness of the
rules and regulations governing sanitary food handling.
Any person who applies for a food handler's permit may
request a certificate of application from the Town Clerk showing that
such application has been made. Such certificate shall be valid for
a period of 30 days from the date of issuance and shall entitle the
holder to work as a food handler during such period. Such certificate
may be revoked for cause by the enforcing official.
When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission
of infection or disease from any food handler, the enforcing official
shall take any or all of the following measures:
