means the person who furnishes, installs and services the
vending machine.
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A.
No operator
shall maintain, conduct, manage or operate any vending machine unless
a permit for such machine has been issued by the health officer and
unless such permit is valid and unexpired.
B.
The
applicant for a permit shall designate in writing the products to
be vended, and permits shall be valid only for those products listed
on the permit. Unless it appears to the health officer that the vending
machine will at all times be maintain in a clean and sanitary condition,
and that all products of the machine will reach the consumer in a
clean and wholesome condition, he shall deny the application for the
permit.
C.
If the
permit is granted, the operator shall be responsible for the proper
operation and maintenance of the vending machine and for complying
with the requirements of this chapter and of state laws and regulations
in connection therewith. The name and address of the operator shall
be posted conspicuously on the vending machine.
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No operator shall use a vehicle to service vending machines,
or allow such use, unless the health officer has issued a permit for
such vehicle.
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The operator shall furnish the health officer with the location
of any vending machine installed sufficiently soon so that, within
seventy-two hours subsequent to such installation, the health officer
may inspect the vending machine and the location. If the location
of the machine is not approved by the health officer, the vending
machine shall be removed immediately and not operated until the location
thereof is rendered acceptable. Each vending machine shall be so located
so that sanitary facilities, fixtures and receptacles for emptying
waste containers and for performing required sanitation are readily
accessible. The area around the vending machine shall be maintained
clean and free of accumulated paper cups and wrappers, spillage and
other waste material and trash. Approved trash receptacles shall be
provided by the machine operator, proximate to vending machines, whenever
required by the health officer.
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All operators shall establish within the county a service room
or rooms, which shall be used only for cleaning, storing and maintaining
vending machines, supplies and sanitized parts. All cleaning and sanitizing
of vending machines parts which come in contact with food, food products
or liquids dispensed by a vending machine shall be done in the service
room previously approved by the health officer. The service room shall
meet all the requirements of this division relative to food handling
establishments.
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Vending machines dispensing liquids shall be cleaned not less
frequently than three times each week, and machines dispensing unwrapped,
nonliquid food products shall be cleaned not less frequently than
once each month, except as noted in this section, in the manner set
forth below:
A.
General.
The following general regulations apply to all vending machines:
1.
The
operator shall clean the outside of the machine, and any vending stage,
door, chute, drip plate and waste can.
2.
Used
cup and trash containers shall be emptied and cleaned.
3.
Parts
shall be wiped with a cleaned moist cloth which has been dipped in
a solution containing not less than two hundred parts of active chlorine
per million parts, or in some other approved sanitizing agent or material.
B.
Cold
Carbonated Beverages. In addition to the servicing required by the
general regulations, machines dispensing cold carbonated beverages
shall be serviced as follows:
1.
Not
less frequently than once each sixty days all contact parts of the
machine shall be cleaned by removing, washing and disinfecting all
tanks, valves, faucets, pipe lines and water filters.
2.
Interior
water filter and conditioning elements shall be taken to the service
room for servicing; properly sanitized replacements may be transported
under sanitary conditions from the service room and installed while
the other water filter and conditioning elements are being serviced.
3.
Water
filters and water conditioning devices shall be of a type which permit
periodic cleaning and replacement.
C.
Milk
Products. In addition to the servicing required by Article III, machines
dispensing milk and milk products shall be serviced as follows:
1.
Fluid
milk or ice cream shall be removed from the machine and discarded
daily, and fresh products added.
2.
Canned
evaporated milk may be dispensed for seventy-two hours before discarding
provided that throughout this period the temperature of such milk
is maintained at not more than fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
3.
All
parts and appurtenances of vending machines that come in contact with
fluid milk or milk products shall be removed daily and cleaned and
sanitized.
4.
Vending
machines that dispense nonliquid milk or nonliquid cream products
shall be sanitized not less frequently than three times each week.
5.
Refilling.
Vending machines, in locations for which the health officer has not
issued a food handling establishment permit, shall be refilled only
by substituting for the empty container one which was cleaned, sanitized
and filled in the service room. The emptied container shall be transported
to the service room for cleaning and sanitizing.
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