[Adopted 3-8-1979 (Ch. 568 of the 2004 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
FOOD
Includes any substance used or intended to be used as food
or drink for human consumption.
FOOD HANDLER'S CERTIFICATE
A certificate provided for herein issued by the Union Health
Department or any other agency recognized by the Union Health Department
and acting on its behalf.
RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Any fixed or mobile restaurant; coffee shop; cafeteria; short-order
cafe; luncheonette; grill; tearoom; sandwich shop; soda fountain;
tavern; bar; cocktail lounge; nightclub; roadside stand; 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
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.
No establishment shall operate for more than
90 days without the supervisor(s) employed in that establishment applying
for a food handler's certificate.
No establishment shall operate for more than
six months without the supervisor(s) employed in that establishment
completing a course of general instruction in bacteria characteristics
and growth, spread of foodborne diseases, methods of preventing food
poisoning, proper food-handling techniques, equipment and establishment
sanitation, dishwashing and sanitization and insect and rodent control.
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 any other person for any purpose whatsoever.
Within six months of the enactment of this article,
no establishment shall be 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.
A food handler's certificate may be granted
to a supervisor taking a comparable course of instruction in another
municipality approved by the Township of Union.
Any person or persons, corporation or other
organization violating any of the provisions of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be subject to a penalty of not less than
$5 nor more than $500, in the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal
Court, for each offense. Any license issued by the Union Township
Board of Health for any premises wherein a violation of this article
is found to exist may, in the discretion of said Board of Health and
after proper hearing had thereon, be revoked.