[Ord. No. H-82-1]
This chapter shall be known as "a chapter concerning supervisors
of food service personnel engaged in the commercial preparation, processing
and sale of food or drink intended for human consumption."
[Ord. No. H-82-1]
As used in this chapter:
FOOD
Shall mean and include any substance used or intended to
be used as food or drink for human consumption.
FOOD HANDLER'S CERTIFICATION
Shall mean a certificate issued by the New Milford Health
Department or any other program approved by the New Milford Health
Department.
RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Shall mean any fixed or mobile restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria,
short order cafe, luncheonette, grill, tearoom, sandwich shop, industrial
feeding establishment, private, public or nonprofit organization or
institution serving food, catering kitchen, commissary, box lunch
establishment, retail bakery, meat market, delicatessen, grocery store,
public food market or similar place in which food or drink is prepared
for retail sale or for service on the premises or elsewhere and any
other retail eating or drinking establishment or operation where food
is served, handled or provided for the public, with or without charge.
SUPERVISOR
Shall mean any person charged with the responsibility of
overseeing the operations, including the supervision of employees
engaged in the preparing, processing and sale of food or drink intended
for human consumption, be it for immediate on- or off-premises consumption.
[Ord. No. H-82-1]
No establishment shall operate for more than 90 days without
the supervisor(s) employed in that establishment applying for a food
handler's certificate.
[Ord. No. H-82-1]
No establishment shall operate for more than six months without
the supervisors employed in that establishment completing a course
of general instruction in bacteria characteristics and growth, spread
of foodborne disease, methods of preventing food poisoning, proper
food handling techniques, equipment and establishment sanitation,
dishwashing and sanitization and insect and rodent control.
[Ord. No. H-82-1]
No person to whom a food handler's certification is issued
or granted shall give, loan, transfer or permit the same to be used
by another person for any purpose whatsoever.
[Ord. No. H-82-1]
Within six months of enactment of this chapter, no establishment
shall open for business in the preparing, processing and sale of food
or drink intended for human consumption without having a supervisor
on the premises who has a food handler's certificate.
[Ord. No. H-82-1]
A food handler's certificate may be granted to a supervisor
taking a comparable course of instruction in another municipality
approved by the New Milford Health Department.
[Ord. No. H-82-1, New]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalty stated in Chapter
BH1 Section
BH1-5 and each violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and each day the same is violated shall be deemed and taken to be a separate and distinct offense.