No person shall conduct, maintain or operate
a public eating establishment in the Township of Bridgewater who does
not possess a license from the Board of Health, provided that no license
shall be required for any public eating establishment operated by
or in conjunction with any public school, church or incorporated charitable
institution. Such license shall not be transferable and shall continue
in force and effect until the first day of June next ensuing the date
of granting thereof unless sooner revoked or suspended.
The enforcement officer or other authorized
representative of the Board shall from time to time make inspections
of food establishments in the Township to determine compliance with
the sanitation regulations hereinafter set forth and shall report
thereon. A copy of such inspection report shall be posted upon the
inside wall of each food establishment by the enforcement officer
or other representative of the Board of Health at the time of each
inspection of said establishment. Said inspection report shall not
be defaced or removed except by the enforcement officer or other representative
of the Board.
No person shall manufacture, store, sell or
offer for sale or delivery on or from any premises in the Township
of Bridgewater any meat, vegetables, food or drink for human use or
consumption either on or off the premises, which is or has been exposed
to any injurious contamination or any contagious, infectious, venereal
or communicable disease or which is unfit, unwholesome, impure, decayed,
diseased, mislabeled or adulterated or which contains any drug, chemical,
preservative, coloring matter or any substance of any kind or character
except as now or hereafter permitted by the laws of the State of New
Jersey.
No person shall own, maintain, operate or permit
to be maintained or operated, on or in any premises controlled or
leased by him in the Township, any factory, warehouse, store, market,
restaurant, hotel, saloon, club, tearoom, lunch counter, ice cream
parlor or soda fountain or equipment where food or drink is manufactured,
prepared, stored, handled, sold, served or offered for sale or delivery
either on or off said premises, unless said premises are properly
lighted, ventilated, screened, drained and at all times kept in a
clean and sanitary condition.
All such establishments described in § 170-19 shall be equipped with adequate washing and toilet facilities, including soap and towels, in locations convenient to workmen, employees and patrons, which facilities shall at all times be kept in a clean and wholesome condition. All toilets shall be separated from any room or store where food or drink is prepared or served.
All dishes, cups, drinking glasses, cooking,
eating and drinking utensils of every character used in any hotel,
restaurant, tearoom, lunch counter, club, saloon, ice cream parlor,
store or soda fountain in the Township shall, immediately after being
used by any person or persons, be thoroughly cleaned by washing same
in a strong solution of washing soda or soap in hot water and thoroughly
rinsed in clean hot water, by sterilization or by some other equally
effective method which has been approved by this Board or the State
Board of Health. Paper cups, dishes or other single service containers,
straws and wooden or paper spoons shall be used only once and then
be destroyed. All such articles shall at all times be so kept and
maintained to prevent contamination by dust, dirt, flies, bugs or
other contaminating influences.
A.
Every employer, manager or superintendent of any public
eating establishment or store in the Township shall immediately suspend
from active duty any person or persons handling, selling, serving
or delivering food or drink for human consumption not in sealed containers,
when such person is found to be physically unfit or afflicted with
any contagious, infectious, venereal or communicable disease in any
infectious state, and any person so found shall immediately cease
such handling of food or drink until his or her recovery shall be
certified by a physician.
B.
Any person handling, selling, serving or delivering
food or drink for human consumption, not in sealed containers, in
any public eating establishment or store in the Township, shall keep
himself or herself clean and his or her clothing neat and clean while
working therein and shall, whenever required in writing by this Board,
submit himself or herself to any tests and examinations by a physician
or laboratory designated by this Board that this Board shall or may
deem proper. The results of all tests and examinations by any physician
or laboratory shall immediately be filed with the Secretary of this
Board.
No person shall sell or transport for sale any
food, except raw fruits and raw vegetables, in any vehicle or device
unless the same shall be wrapped, packaged or covered in such manner
as to adequately protect the contents from dust, dirt and all foreign
or injurious contamination. All vehicles used in the transport, sale
or delivery of food shall be kept in a sanitary condition at all times.
No impure ice or ice cut from a polluted pond,
lake or stream and no ice manufactured from impure water shall be
used or sold in the Township.
