It shall be the duty of the Food Inspector to visit at frequent
intervals each public and private market, stall, shop, store, warehouse,
cannery, factory, restaurant and storehouse in the City, and to inspect
each and all wagons, carts, and vehicles of vendors or street hawkers,
in or about which meat, dairy products, vegetables, fruit, bread or
other provisions are kept, made or carried for sale, or other disposition
for human food, and to examine and carefully inspect all such food
stuffs and provisions.
(Prior code § 7-020)
If the Food Inspector shall find any public or private market,
stall, shop, store, bakery, storehouse, cold storage warehouse. stock
yard, slaughter house, boat, cart, wagon or other vehicle, in an unclean
or unwholesome condition, notice shall be given to the person in charge
thereof, to clean and purify the same, so as to put the same in a
clean, wholesome and proper sanitary condition within 24 hours from
the time of such notice, and if any person so in charge shall not
put the same in a clean, wholesome and proper sanitary condition within
such time, then such person shall be guilty of violating the provisions
hereof and subject to punishment provided therefor.
(Prior code § 7-020)
Every person keeping, maintaining or being in charge of any
public or private market, stall, shop, store, bakery, ice cream or
candy factory, storehouse, warehouse, cold storage, cart, wagon or
other vehicle in, on or about which any meat, fish, oysters, birds,
fowl, vegetables, fruit, milk, bread, candies, cakes or other provisions
are kept, held or stored, or offered for sale or other disposition
as human food, shall keep such public or private market, or stall,
shop, store, bakery, candy factory, ice cream factory, storehouse,
warehouse, cold storage, cart, wagon, or other vehicle in a clean,
pure and wholesome condition, and if any such person shall allow or
permit the same to become or remain unclean, impure or unwholesome,
he or she shall be guilty of the violation hereof.
(Prior code § 7-021)
A.
It is
unlawful to keep:
1.
Meat,
game, fish, vegetables, fruit, or other prepared food stuffs in an
open receptacle less than two feet above the floor.
2.
Meat,
vegetables, fruit, fish, dairy products, cooked meats, figs, dates,
dried fruit, olives, sauerkraut, mince meat, lard, butter, butterine,
candy, crackers, cakes, bread or any prepared food, exposed for sale
in the open air, to the action of moisture, soot, dust and flies in
the front of any shop, store, or other place.
(Prior code § 7-022; Ord. 2020-09-15-1501 C.S. § 5)
Every manager of a store, market or other place where food is
prepared for sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, shall
cause the same to be screened effectually so as to prevent flies and
other insects from obtaining access to such food, and prevent the
handling of same by patrons or prospective purchasers.
(Prior code § 7-023)
All fruits, vegetables, meats and other food kept, or sold or
offered for sale, shall be kept in receptacles free from decayed matter
of all kinds.
(Prior code § 7-024)
Every person who shall bring into, hold, keep, offer or expose
for sale or sell or deliver for sale or consumption within the City
any milk or milk products, meat, fish, or bread, in any wagon, cart
or other vehicle shall provide such wagon, cart or other vehicle with
a suitable cover which shall be used at all times.
(Prior code § 7-025)
It is unlawful to prepare, keep for sale, or sell any kind of
meat, milk products, fish, game, vegetables, fruit, bread, cakes,
candies, or other foods in any room in which a toilet is located,
nor in any room opening directly into a toilet room, unless there
is outside ventilation to such toilet room.
(Prior code § 7-026)
All dealers in meats, fowl, fish, vegetables, fruits, groceries,
or other human food, shall maintain at least one water faucet, connected
by pipes with a suitable water supply. Sanitary lavatory conveniences
must be provided for the use of employees.
(Prior code § 7-027)
The baking of bread, cakes, pies, the manufacture of candy,
or the cooking of other food, is prohibited from being done in a cellar
or basement or other room where there is not direct ventilation to
the outer air.
(Prior code § 7-028)
Any person or persons, owning or managing or in charge of any
canning establishment, or other place where meats, fish, oysters,
fowl, fruits, or vegetables are canned or preserved for human food,
who shall keep or conduct said place in an unclean, unwholesome or
unsanitary manner; and any person canning, curing or otherwise preserving
any meats, fish, oysters, fowl, fruits or vegetables for human food
who shall utilize in this way any diseased, tainted or unwholesome
meat, fish, oysters, fowl, or any fruit or vegetables from filthy
boxes, baskets, or other container or use any chemical therein deleterious
to health, shall be deemed guilty of the violation hereof.
(Prior code § 7-029)
It is unlawful for any person in charge of any restaurant, hotel
or boarding house or other place where food is sold or served in the
cooked or raw state, to keep such place in an unclean or unsanitary
condition, and all persons employed in or about such places shall
keep themselves and their clothing in a clean and healthful condition.
(Prior code § 7-030)
It is unlawful for any person maintaining, or in charge of any
restaurant, hotel, boardinghouse, or other place where meals or lunches
are served in a cooked state or otherwise to serve or cause to be
served, any tainted or diseased meat, fish, oysters, fowl, or any
diseased, decayed or partially decayed or unwholesome fruit, vegetables,
or any unwholesome food whatever, to any person or persons, either
at said place or sent to any person or persons at any other place.
(Prior code § 7-031)
It is unlawful for any person or persons to keep live chickens,
ducks, geese, turkeys, or other live fowl in any cellar or basement.
It is also unlawful for any person or persons to keep any live chickens,
turkeys, ducks, geese or live fowl of any kind in any room where any
kind of food stuffs are kept, prepared for sale or sold. Slaughterhouses
and other places where fowl are killed and prepared for sale or storage
shall be constructed with watertight flooring with properly trapped
sewer connections and these connected with the sewer and immediately
after each killing the floor shall be thoroughly washed and the place
at all times kept in a clean and wholesome condition.
(Prior code § 7-032)
