The Board of Health of the Borough of Wallington, County of
Bergen, State of New Jersey, acting under the power and authority
conferred upon it by N.J.S.A. 26:3-64 to 26:3-69 and the several acts
supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, hereby ordains as follows.
This chapter and all ordinances supplementary hereto or amendatory
hereof shall be known and designated as the "Sanitary Code of the
Borough of Wallington."
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When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the future, words used in the plural number include
the singular number, and words used in the singular number include
the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely
directory.
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APIARY
BOARD OF HEALTH, THE BOARD, THIS BOARD or SAID BOARD
BOROUGH, THE BOROUGH, THIS BOROUGH or MUNICIPALITY
FOOD-HANDLING ESTABLISHMENT
HEALTH OFFICER AND SANITARY INSPECTOR
ISOLATION
ITINERANT RESTAURANT
LICENSE
OPERATOR
PERSON
QUARANTINE
RESTAURANT
SALE
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SANITARY or SANITATION
SANITIZATION
STATE SANITARY CODE
STERILIZATION
The following definitions shall apply to the interpretation and enforcement
of this chapter:
[Added 1-18-1993 by Ord. No. BH-93-1]
The Board of Health of the Borough of Wallington or its official
representative, except where otherwise specified, when the Board is
not in session.
The Borough of Wallington, County of Bergen, State of New
Jersey.
Any factory, store, market, room or other place where food
or nonalcoholic drink for consumption is manufactured, processed,
prepared, handled, stored, displayed or sold.
Those persons appointed by the Board of Health of the Borough.
The placing apart of a person, persons or animals affected
with or exposed to a communicable disease for the purpose of preventing
contact with other persons or animals and the establishment of a restriction
directly surrounding such person, persons or animals.
A restaurant operating for a temporary period in connection
with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition or other similar
gatherings or from a vehicle, wagon, truck or other conveyance.
The formal written permission to perform certain acts or
carry on a certain business embodied in the document granting such
permission issued by this Board in accordance with its rules and regulations
and this chapter.
Any person who, by contract, agreement or ownership, conducts
a restaurant, food-handling establishment or itinerant restaurant
or operates a vending machine or apparatus or who vends any food or
food products within the Borough.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind, and "he," "his" or "him" shall
include those of the female sex.
The placing of restrictions upon households or premises or
the persons or animals thereof for the purpose of preventing the spread
of a communicable disease to other persons, animals, households or
premises.
Any restaurant, hotel, coffee shop, dining room, cafeteria,
luncheonette, soda fountain, sandwich stand or any other place where
food or drink is prepared, handled, stored, sold or served for consumption
on the premises to the public, organization members or employees,
with or without charge.
Every delivery of food, whether the same is direct sale or the
solicitation or acceptance of an order for food, and including exchange,
barter, traffic in, keeping and exposing for sale, displaying for
sale, serving with meals, delivering for value, peddling or possessing
with intent to sell.
The gratuitous delivery or gift of any food by a licensee or
person to whom a food certificate has been issued or by any other
person.
That degree of cleanliness as this Board may demand.
The process of rendering eating or drinking utensils free
from disease, bacteria and other organisms indicative of insanitary
conditions.
The State Sanitary Code enacted by the Department of Health
of the State of New Jersey.
The destruction of all microbial life on or in an object.
