[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough of Hanover 7-18-1951 by Ord. No. 762. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
General penalty — See Ch. 1, Art. I.
Eating and drinking establishments — See Ch. 137, Part 2.
[Amended 10-31-1968 by Ord. No. 1411]
It shall be unlawful for any person as an employee to handle, serve, sell or offer for sale in any establishment, including but not limited to hotels, restaurants, bakeries, potato chip factories and meat markets, any food or food products except that same be in a sealed package or container, unless and until such person shall have been examined by a physician and certified by such physician to be fit to handle such food in a manner so that disease will not be transmitted hereby.
[Amended 10-31-1968 by Ord. No. 1411]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any person and/or permit any person to handle, serve, sell or offer for sale in any establishment, including but not limited to hotels, restaurants, bakeries, potato chip factories and meat markets, any food or food product except that same be in a sealed package or container, unless and until such person to be employed and/or permitted to handle, serve, sell or offer for sale food or food products shall have been examined and certified as stated in § 217-1 hereof.
[Amended 10-31-1968 by Ord. No. 1411]
Each such examination as required by §§ 217-1 and 217-2 hereof shall be as prescribed by the Hanover Board of Health.
A. 
When each such person shall have been examined and found to be free of communicable diseases, the physician giving such examination shall issue a certificate, in substantially the following form: (The forms are to be available at the office of the Secretary of the Borough of Hanover.)
The Borough of Hanover
Board of Health
CERTIFICATE OF HEALTH
I certify that I have examined __________ of __________ Street, employed by __________ of __________ in accordance with the regulations required by this certificate, and believe (him/her) to be free from communicable disease and that (he/she) is not a carrier of communicable disease organisms: Height _____ Weight _____ Build _____ Complexion _____ Eyes _____ Hair _____ Identifying Marks ___________ Date _______________
M. D.
B. 
No such certificate shall be executed by the examining physician unless, upon such examination, the person examined is found to be free of communicable diseases and is further found not to be a carrier of such diseases.
Upon receipt of a certificate of fitness, as aforesaid, from the examining physician, the person to whom the certificate is issued shall file the same, within five days from the date of its issue, with the Health Officer of the Borough of Hanover.