(a)
Required.
No person, firm, corporation, or association operating, managing or conducting any hotel, abattoir, restaurant, cafe, or any other public sleeping or eating place, or any place or vehicle where food or drink or containers therefor of any kind are manufactured, transferred, prepared, stored, packed, served, sold, or otherwise handled, or any manufacturer or vender of candies or manufactured sweets, shall work, employ, or keep in their employ in, on, or about any said place or vehicle or have delivered any article therefrom by any person infected with any transmissible condition of any infectious or contagious disease, or work or employ any person to work in, on, or about any said place, or to deliver any article therefrom, who, at the time of his or her employment, failed to deliver to the employer or his agent a certificate signed by a legally licensed physician residing within the city, attesting the fact that the bearer had been actually and thoroughly examined by such physician within a week prior to the time of such employment, and that such examination disclosed the fact that such person to be employed was free from any transmissible condition of any infectious or contagious disease, said certificate to be approved by the duly appointed and acting city health officer, or fail to institute and have made, at intervals of time not exceeding six (6) months, actual and thorough examinations essential to the finding of freedom from communicable and infectious diseases of all such employees, by a legally licensed physician residing in the city, and secure in evidence thereof a certificate signed by such physician, stating such examination had been made of such person, disclosing the fact that he or she was free from any transmissible condition of any communicable and infectious diseases.
(b)
Display; contents; period of validity.
All health certificates called for by this section shall be displayed for public inspection at the place where the person named thereon is employed, and shall not be removed from such place during the continuance of such employment except by the city health officer or his duly appointed agent. All such certificates shall bear the employee’s signature, and the name of the physician executing examinations and tests, and shall describe the color of eyes, and hair, height, weight, race, sex, age, and date of issuance, and shall be valid for six (6) months only.
(c)
Failure to display.
The failure of any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in any of the businesses described in this section to display, at the place where any of the operations of such businesses are being conducted, a valid health or registration certificate, as required by this section, for each person employed in, on, or about such place, shall be prima facie evidence that the person, firm, corporation or association, in violation of requirements called for by this section, failed to require the exhibition of the preemployment health certificate of such person and failed to institute and have made of such person actual and thorough examinations necessary to the finding of freedom from communicable diseases at intervals of time not exceeding six (6) months.
(1995 Code, secs. 6.1001–6.1003; 2009 Code, sec. 6.04.001)