[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Borough of Mountain
Lakes as Ch. BH-X of the 1980 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Retail food establishments — See Ch. 268.
A.
License required; fee. No person shall operate any food
processing or beverage processing establishment in the Borough without first
having obtained a food and beverage license and paying the fee therefor, as
set forth in § 111-3I.
B.
Inspection; conformance.
(1)
Every establishment referred to in this section shall
be subject to inspection during all business hours by the Board or the Health
Officer.
(2)
Every such establishment shall at all times conform to
sanitary regulations contained herein and affecting or concerning the handling,
manufacture, preparation, storage, sale or exposure of any food or beverage.
A.
Sale of fish. No person shall sell, expose for sale or
offer for sale any fish, other than frozen fish, within the Borough unless
the place from which the same is sold, exposed or offered for sale fully complies
in all respects with the following provisions:
(1)
All floor shall be of nonabsorbent material.
(2)
Ice refrigerators shall have a drain permanently connected
indirectly into a proper trap and vented fixture to the sanitary sewer line
and shall be flushed daily with fresh water.
(3)
All table tops and counter tops shall be of nonabsorbent
material. Portable wooden cutting or chopping boards are permitted, but they
shall be thoroughly washed and scrubbed daily.
(4)
All fish markets or places where fish is sold shall have
the following:
(5)
All doors and windows shall be screened from May 1 to
October 1 in each year. Window screens shall be of permanent locking type.
(6)
Toilet and hand washing facilities shall be provided
for fish handlers.
(7)
Only wholesome and edible fish products shall be sold
for human consumption.
(8)
All fish showcases shall be internally lined with nonabsorbent
material.
B.
Sale of meat.
(1)
Inspection.
(a)
No person shall expose for sale or offer for sale, or
otherwise dispose of or have in his possession for the sale or disposal within
the Borough, any meat of or from any cattle, calf, lamb, goat, swine or any
part of any animal from which any meat is obtained, unless the animal has
been examined, both before and after slaughtering, by the veterinary inspector
or other qualified officer of the Board of Health of a municipality having
a system of inspection equal to that adopted by the United States Bureau of
Animal Industry.
(b)
All meat or meat food products offered for sale in the
Borough shall be subject to reinspection and condemnation at all times by
the Board.
(2)
No person shall offer or expose for sale, or sell or
otherwise dispose of within the Borough, or be possessed of any meat or meat
products, unless the factory or establishment where the same are manufactured,
processed or put up, bears the approval of the United States Bureau of Animal
Industry or the approval of the Board of Health of the municipality in which
the same is located. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed
to permit the use, sale or the exposure for sale thereof for human consumption
of any meat or meat products unfit for human consumption.
(3)
No person shall sell, expose for sale or offer for sale,
or cut any meat on the public streets within the Borough.
