[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Leonia
5-17-1978. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any substance used or intended to be used as food or drink for human
consumption.
A certificate issued by the Leonia Health Department or any other
program approved by the Leonia Health Department.
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,
private, public or non-profit organization or institution serving food, catering
kitchen, commissary, box-lunch establishment, retail bakery, meat market,
delicatessen, grocery store, public food market or similar place in which
food or drink is prepared for retail sale or for 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 with or without charge.
Any person charged with the responsibility of overseeing the operations,
including the supervision of employees engaged in the preparing, processing
and sale of food or drink intended for human consumption, be it for immediate
on- or off-premises consumption.
No establishment shall operate for more than 90 days without the supervisor(s)
employed in that establishment applying for a food handler's certificate.
No establishment shall operate for more than six months without the
supervisors employed in that establishment completing a course of general
instruction in bacteria characteristics and growth, spread of foodborne diseases,
methods of preventing food poisoning, proper foodhandling techniques, equipment
and establishment sanitation, dishwashing and sanitization and insect and
rodent control.
No person to whom a food handler's certification is issued or granted
shall give, loan, transfer or permit the same to be used by any other person,
for any purpose whatsoever.
Within six months of enactment of this chapter, no establishment shall
be open for business in the preparing, processing and sale of food or drink
intended for human consumption without having a supervisor on the premises
who has a food handler's certificate.
A food handler's certificate may be granted to a supervisor taking
a comparable course of instruction in another municipality approved by the
Borough of Leonia, New Jersey.
