This chapter shall be known as the "Retail Food
Service Manager's Certification Ordinance" of the Paramus Board of
Health.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
FOOD SERVICE MANAGER
An on-site supervisory employee of a retail food processing
establishment, responsible for food preparation, service and staff.
The Health Officer shall approve a public education
course for food service manager certification or shall conduct a program
of food service manager certification, recertification, training,
examination and evaluation of food service managers. The content of
the training program shall include but shall not be limited to such
topics as employee health and personal hygiene, foodborne disease,
prevention of food poisonings, etiologic agents, safe food handling
principles and procedures, cleaning and sanitizing, vermin control,
employee training techniques and self-inspection procedures. Examinations
for the training course shall be prepared or approved by the Health
Officer. A minimum passing grade shall be established by the Health
Officer, Applicants who fail to pass the initial examination may repeat
the examination one time. Applicants who fail to pass a second examination
shall be required to repeat the training program. The Health Officer
may also grant reciprocity to other food manager training courses
determined to be equivalent to the Board's course.
A food service manager's certificate is not
transferable. No person to whom a food service manager's certificate
is issued or granted shall give, loan, transfer or permit the same
to be used by any other person for any purpose whatsoever.
[Amended 11-22-2010 by Ord. No. 122; 3-24-2014 by Ord. No. 129]
At the time of application for entrance to the
food service manager certification or recertification course, the
applicant shall pay a fee to the Board of Health in the amount of
$175.
Any food processing establishment that violates
the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be
liable to a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000 for
each violation. Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute
a separate offense. In addition, any food processing establishment
that fails to comply with the requirements of this chapter is subject
to a hearing before the Board of Health to determine whether the establishment's
foodhandling permit be revoked or suspended in accordance with the
requirements of the Sanitary Code of the Borough of Paramus.