[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health
of the Township of Cranbury 1-2-1992 by Ord. No. OH 12-91-02. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
All retail food establishments shall comply
with Chapter 24 (N.J.A.C. 8:24) entitled “Sanitation in Retail
Food Establishments, Food and Beverage Vending Machines and Cottage
Food Operations”; and all violations are hereby declared to
be nuisances hazardous to health.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person(s) or any body
corporate to conduct a retail food establishment, as defined in and
governed by Chapter 24 (N.J.A.C. 8:24) entitled “Sanitation
in Retail Food Establishments, Food and Beverage Vending Machines
and Cottage Food Operations,” without first having procured
a license from the Board of Health, or to conduct said activities
without complying with any or all of the provisions concerning Chapter
24.
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
B.
The annual license fee to be paid for conducting a
retail food establishment and mobile food vendor license shall be
the sum of $50. If said annual license fee is not paid within 30 days
of its due date, the fee shall be increased to the sum of $100. The
fee for a temporary food license or cottage operator license shall
be the sum of $25.
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
C.
The license granted by the Board of Heath shall expire
on the 31st day of December of each year.
D.
Houses of worship or nonprofit clubs or organizations that serve
or sell foods or meals are exempt from the annual food license fee.
[Added 3-27-2017 by Ord.
No. 03-17-04]
E.
Pursuant
to N.J.A.C. 5:70-2.7(a), no mobile food vendor shall operate within
the borders of the Township of Cranbury without having applied for
a permit then inspected and found to be in compliance by the Fire
Safety Bureau. The required fee shall be paid for at the time of application.
No fee payment will be accepted at the time of the inspection. No
permit shall be issued without an in-person inspection taking place.
Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:70-2.7(f): The Fire Official may deny or revoke
a permit at any time. A new fire safety application, permit and related
fees are required for every individual event.
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
[Added 6-2-1994[1]]
A.
COTTAGE FOOD OPERATOR
MOBILE RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
MOBILE FOOD VENDOR
MOBILE FOOD VENDOR LICENSE
POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD
RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
TEMPORARY FOOD LICENSE
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A person or entity who holds a New Jersey cottage food operator
permit authorized to produce cottage food products in the private
kitchen of the operator’s residence and at no other locations
and to distribute cottage food products to consumers thereof without
being subject to initial or periodic inspection by a health authority
and other requirements applicable to retail food establishments pursuant
to Chapter 24 (N.J.A.C. 8:24).
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
Any movable restaurant, truck, van, trailer, cart, or other
movable unit, including hand-carried, portable containers in or on
which food or beverage is transported, stored, or prepared for retail
sale at temporary locations by a retail food establishment.
Any automobile, truck, or other motor-powered vehicle, owned
and operated, or contracted with an approved, licensed retail food
establishment that is in good standing with the health authority in
which the establishment is located, that offers or provides cooked
or prepared food to individuals from a temporary, but stationary,
location.
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
Any license issued under this chapter to a mobile food vendor.
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
Any food which consists in whole or in part of milk or milk
products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, edible crustacea,
raw seed sprouts, heat-treated vegetables and vegetable products,
or other ingredients, including synthetic ingredients in a form capable
of supporting rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic
microorganisms, or the slower growth of C. botulinum. The term does
not include foods which have a pH level of 4.6 or below or a water
activity (aw) value of 0.88 or less.
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; snack bar; catering kitchen; commissary; box
lunch establishment; retail bakery; meat market; delicatessen; grocery
store; public food market, or any similar place in which food or drink
is prepared for retail sale or 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 for charge;
provided, however, that retail food establishment shall not include
foods or meals served or sold by houses of worship or nonprofit clubs
or organizations.
Any outside mobile food vendor not having an annual mobile
food vendor license with the Township of Cranbury may apply for a
temporary food license for a day. The application and specifications
in obtaining a temporary food license can be found in the Township
Clerk’s office.
[4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 03-23-08]
B.
It shall be unlawful for any retail food establishment,
fixed, temporary or mobile, to serve potentially hazardous food products
within the Township of Cranbury unless and until one or more supervisory
personnel are certified in food safety and sanitation at least once
every three years through a course of instruction approved by the
State Department of Health.
C.
If shall be the responsibility of the owner, operator
or supervisory personnel in immediate charge of the food preparation
or food handling at a retail food establishment, fixed or mobile,
to provide proof of such program completion to the satisfaction of
any authorized sanitary inspector requesting the same.
D.
In addition to such other actions authorized by the
New Jersey State Sanitary Code, the authorized sanitary inspector
is hereby authorized to file a Summons and Complaint against any establishment
which does not meet the requirements hereof. Said Complaint shall
be in the name of the Township of Cranbury and shall be returnable
before, and be under the authority and jurisdiction of the Municipal
Court of the Township of Cranbury.
Any person who violates any provision of or
order promulgated under this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 90 days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed
committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
