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Editor's Note: See Ch. 207, Food Handling.
No person shall manufacture, have, offer for sale or sell any article of food or drink which is adulterated within the meaning of an act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey entitled "An Act to Prevent the Adulteration of Food and Drugs," approved March 25, 1881,[1] and the supplement thereto, approved March 23, 1883, or of any act or acts of said Legislature thereafter passed amendatory, supplementary or additional thereto.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:5-1.
Every person being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, stall or place where any meat, fish or birds, fowl, fruit, nuts or vegetables, designed or held for human food, shall be held, stored, kept or offered for sale shall put and keep said room, stall or place and its appurtenances in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and every person having charge, or interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care or sale of any meat, fish, birds, fowl, fruit, nuts or vegetables, designed for human food, shall put and preserve the same in a cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall not allow the same, or any part thereof, to be poisoned, infected or rendered unsafe or unwholesome for human food.
No cased, blown, plaited, raised, stuffed, putrid, unhealthy or unwholesome meat, fish, birds or fowl shall be held, bought, sold or offered for sale for human food, or held or kept in any market, public or private, or in any public place in said Town. Nor shall the carcass, meat or flesh of any cattle, sheep or swine killed while in a diseased, overheated, feverish or exhausted condition, nor any calf which shall be less than four weeks old, nor any pig that shall be less than five weeks old nor any lamb that shall be less than eight weeks old be brought into or kept, sold or offered for sale for human food in the Town of West New York.
The body of any animal or part thereof, which is to be used as human food, shall not be carted or carried through the streets or avenues unless it be covered as to protect it from dust and dirt, and no meat, poultry, game or fish shall be hung or exposed for sale in any street, yard or alley or outside of any shop or store, or in the open windows or doorways thereof in the Town of West New York, nor shall the purity or wholesomeness thereof be in anywise impaired.
[Amended 10-19-1977 by Ord. No. 1261]
If any cattle, meat, fish, birds, fowl, fruit, nuts or vegetables are found by any inspector or other officer of the Board of Commissioners in a condition which renders the same unsafe or unwholesome for human food, it shall be the duty of said inspector or officer to affix to said article or articles a label on which shall be written or printed the words, "Condemned by direction of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of West New York, New Jersey." When anything included within the provisions of this section shall be found in numbers, quantity or bulk, it shall only be necessary for said inspector or officer to affix one such label on a conspicuous part of a box, tin, basket, compartment or other place or thing containing the same, and he shall forthwith report every such condemnation at the office of the Board. No person or persons shall destroy, deface, conceal, interfere with or remove any label affixed by any inspector or officer of this Board, as aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of any matter or substances that have been condemned to immediately remove the same from any market, street or place and convey the same to such place as may be designated by the inspector or officer; and such articles shall not be sold or offered for sale or in any way disposed of, and in case the owner or person in charge shall fail, neglect or refuse to remove said articles within three hours after having been notified to do so, the same may be removed by the inspector or other officer of this Board, the owner or person in charge paying all expenses thereof.
Whenever this Board shall have satisfactory evidence that any well, the water of which is used for domestic purposes, has become polluted or rendered unsafe for potable use, notice to discontinue the use of said polluted water shall be sent to the owner, agent, lessee or party in charge of said well, or to the corporation supplying water for public use, and at the direction of this Board, the owner, agent or lessee or party in charge of said well, or any corporation selling water to the public, may be ordered in writing to close or fill up said well or to remedy the impurity of such water supply immediately. If the said order is not complied with within the time therein specified, proceedings will be instituted to recover the penalty.
Whenever any basement or cellar or portion thereof is used for any purpose of business, there shall be sufficient natural light and ventilation, and accommodations such as a sanitary toilet and sink. Any person failing or neglecting to comply with such notice, within the time specified by this Board, shall forthwith close said premises until such order from this Board shall be fully complied with.
[Amended 3-20-1996 by Ord. No. 8/96; 6-19-1996 by Ord. No. 27/96]
Fruits, flowers, plants, vegetables, meats and other food products shall not be displayed or exposed on the sidewalk or outside of places of business.
Prepared foodstuffs, such as bakers' goods, confectionery, shelled nuts, etc.; dried fruits, such as dates, figs, peaches, prunes, apricots, etc.; cereal products, such as tapioca, breakfast foods, etc.; pickled products, such as pickles, chili sauce, etc.; fruit products, such as apple butter, jellies, jams, etc.; meat products, such as dried, salted or smoked fish, veal loaf, pickled pigs feet, chipped beef, boiled ham, mincemeat; or other foods prepared for eating or subject to the attacks of worms or flies shall not be displayed for sale unless protected from flies, dust and dirt and all other foreign and injurious contaminants by suitable coverings of glass, wood or metal.