The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Food which:
Bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance in a quantity which may render it injurious to health;
Bears or contains any added poisonous or deleterious substance for which no safe tolerance has been established by regulation, or in excess of such tolerance if one has been established;
Consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for human consumption;
Has been processed, prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions, whereby it may have become contaminated with filth or rendered injurious to health;
Is in whole or in part the product of a diseased animal, or an animal which had died otherwise than by slaughter; or
Is in a container composed in whole or in part of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health.
Any person to whom food and/or drink is served (whether or not for payment), sold or offered for sale.
A material which maintains its original surface characteristics under prolonged influence of the food, cleaning compounds and sanitizing solutions which may be in contact with it.
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Readily accessible and of such material and finish and so fabricated that residue may be completely removed by normal cleaning methods.
Any cook, waiter, kitchen help or other employee of any kind in a food establishment who, in any manner whatever, handles or comes in contact with any food or drink served to or provided for the public, and the proprietor or any member of the proprietor's family who handles said food or drink.
All stoves, ranges, hoods, meat blocks, tables, counters, refrigerators, sinks, dish-washing machines, steam tables and similar items, other than utensils, used in the operation of a food service establishment.
Any raw, cooked or processed edible substance, beverage or ingredient intended in whole or in part for human consumption.
Surfaces of equipment and utensils which normally come in contact with food, directly or indirectly.
A public eating and drinking place, as defined herein, a retail food establishment, as defined herein, a temporary public eating and drinking place, as defined herein, and any other place regulated herein.
All putrescible wastes, except sewage and body waste, including animal and vegetable offal.
The entity or individual appointed by the Bethel Township Board of Supervisors to enforce the terms of this chapter.
[Added 2-10-2015 by Ord. No. 214]
Bethel Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, acting through its Health Officer.
[Amended 2-10-2015 by Ord. No. 214]
Any individual, partnership, association, corporation or other entity.
Any perishable food which consists in whole or in part of milk or milk products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish or other ingredients capable of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms.
Any person, partnership, association, corporation or other entity conducting or operating a food establishment within the Township.
Any public establishment within the Township which serves food or drink to customers or patrons and which is regulated by the provisions of this chapter.
Any place in which or at which food and/or drink is served to one or more individual or individuals, other than within a residential household or family dwelling unit, regardless of whether money is paid for such food or drink, whether the place or server is a profit or nonprofit entity, whether food service is the primary function of the establishment or whether individuals are served only at the invitation of the establishment or members of the establishment. "Public establishment" shall include but not be limited to hospitals, medical and health care facilities, nursing homes, schools and other educational facilities, employee cafeterias, penal institutions and any other place where food is served to one or more individual or individuals, other than within a residential household or family dwelling unit.
All nonputrescible wastes generally regarded and classified as rubbish, trash, junk and similar designations, which have been rejected by the owner or possessor thereof as useless or worthless.
Any place, whether temporary or permanent, stationary or mobile, where food or drink is packaged, stored, served, sold or offered for sale directly to the consumer.
Applied to potentially hazardous food, an internal temperature of 45° F. or below and 140° F. or above.
Effective bactericidal treatment of clean surfaces of equipment and utensils by a process which has been approved by the Department as being effective in destroying microorganisms, including pathogens.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
Any system, whether community or individual, publicly or privately owned, for the collection and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature, or both, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage or industrial wastes.
Cups, containers, lids or closures, plates, knives, forks, spoons, stirrers, paddles, straws, placemats, napkins, doilies, wrapping materials and all similar articles which are constructed wholly or in part from paper, paperboard, molded pulp, foil, wood, plastic, synthetic or other readily destructible materials, and which are intended by the manufacturers and generally recognized by the public for one use only and then to be discarded.
Any well, spring, cistern, infiltration gallery, stream, reservoir, pond or lake from which water is taken, by any means, either intermittently or continuously, for use by the public.
The Bethel Township Board of Supervisors.
Any public eating or drinking place which operates at any location for a temporary period of time not to exceed more than 14 consecutive calendar days, regardless of whether the establishment operates continuously during this time, in connection with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition or similar transitory gathering. Mobile food service establishments shall be considered "temporary public eating and drinking places" for the purposes of this chapter.
Bethel Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Any tableware and kitchenware used in the storage, preparation, conveying or serving of food.
Any and all rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, lakes, dammed water, ponds, springs and all other bodies of surface and underground water, or parts thereof, whether natural or artificial, within or on the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A source or sources of water, as well as any and all water treatment, storage, transmission and distribution facilities.