[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Union (now Barnegat) 9-16-71. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A code regulating retail food handling establishments, providing for the inspection of such establishments and fixing penalties for violations is hereby established pursuant to Revised Statutes 26:3-69.1 to 69.6. A copy of said code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof without the inclusion of the text thereof herein.
The said code established and adopted by this ordinance is described and commonly known as the "Retail Food Handling Establishment Code of New Jersey 1965."
Three (3) copies of the said Retail Food Handling Establishment Code of New Jersey 1965 have been placed on file in the office of the Secretary of this local Board of Health upon the introduction of this ordinance and will remain on file there until final action is taken on this ordinance for the use and examination of the public.
A. 
No person shall operate a retail food handling establishment unless a permit or approval of an existing certificate, permit or license to operate same shall have been issued by this Board of Health. Such permit or approval of an existing certificate, permit or license shall be posted in a conspicuous place in such establishment.
B. 
There shall be a charge of forty dollars ($40) for such permit or approval of an existing certificate, permit or license.
[Amended 10-7-81 by Ord. No. 1981-5; 3-20-95 by Ord. No. 1995-18]
C. 
Permits issued or approved under the provisions of this ordinance shall expire annually on January 1 of each year, and application for renewal thereof shall be submitted together with the required fee prior to December 15 of each preceding year.
D. 
A person conducting an itinerant retail food handling establishment shall secure a permit or if such person is the holder of a certificate, permit or license issued by the Board of Health of another jurisdiction, said certificate, permit or license may be approved by this Board of Health, and there shall be a fee of ten dollars ($10) charged for such approval.
E. 
A permit or approval of certificate, permit or license, may be suspended or revoked for a violation by the holder of any provision of this ordinance or code after an opportunity for a hearing by the Board of Health or its authorized representative.
F. 
A permit or approval of a certificate, permit or license issued by another Board of Health is not transferable.
Any person who violates any provision of or order promulgated under this ordinance or code established herein shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than two dollars ($2) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation. Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.