No retail food establishment, including restaurants, diners
and other establishments selling or serving food to the public in
the Borough of North Arlington, shall be granted a retail food establishment
license unless the owner, manager or employee in charge of other employees
serving food on each particular shift has successfully completed a
course prescribed by the North Arlington Board of Health pertaining
to health, education, sanitation, personal hygiene, food poisoning,
dishwashing procedures, germs insects and rodents and other health
related matters. There are two such courses: an eighteen-hour food
manager's certification course and a three-hour food handler's
course. The owner, manager or employee in charge of other employees
serving food on each particular shift must possess a current certification
of satisfactory completion of a three-hour food handler's course,
which shall be effective for three years from the date of its issuance.
If there is no owner, manager or employee in charge of other
employees serving food to others on each particular shift who has
successfully completed the eighteen-hour food manager's course
or three-hour food handler's course by October 1, 2002, then
the retail food establishment shall be issued a summons to appear
in the North Arlington Municipal Court.
A retail food establishment license issued under the provisions
of this article shall expire annually on June 30 of each year and
application for renewal there of shall be submitted together with
the required fee prior to July 1 of each year.
A retail food establishment license issued by the Board of Health
is not transferable to another license.