The Director of Public Health shall have the power, whenever he deems
it necessary for the preservation of the health of the citizens, to prohibit
the sale of food, fish, fruit or other articles which he may consider injurious.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer or expose for sale
for human food any article which has been prepared, handled or kept where
the sanitary conditions are such that the article is rendered unhealthy, unwholesome,
deleterious or otherwise unfit for human food or which consists in whole or
in part of diseased, filthy, decomposed or putrid animal or vegetable matter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or expose for sale
for human food the flesh of any animal that was diseased, overheated or run
down by dogs at or before the time such animal was butchered or slain or which
died a natural or violent death not in the usual manner of killing animals
for food.
Every person owning or occupying any room, stall, store, hotel, restaurant
or other place where any meat, butter, fish, fruit, vegetables, ice cream,
confectioneries, cheese, bread, cakes, pies or any other food supplies, whether
of like kind or not, or any food or drink products are kept, exposed or offered
for sale or furnished or supplied for human consumption shall put and keep
such place and its appurtenances in a clean and wholesome condition. Every
person having charge of, interested in or engaged in the care of any such
articles of food supplies, food or drink products of milk, designed for human
consumption, shall put and preserve the same in a clean and wholesome condition
and shall not allow the same or any part thereof to be infected or rendered
unsafe or unwholesome for human food.
Every manager of a store, market, dairy, cafe or lunchroom or of any
other place where food or a beverage or confectionery or any similar article
is manufactured or prepared for sale, stored for sale or sold shall equip
such store, market, dairy, cafe, lunchroom or other place with running water
and with facilities and materials for the proper washing of employees' hands,
and shall cause such washing to be done, and for the proper cleansing of such
store, market, dairy, cafe, lunchroom or other place and of all apparatus,
utensils and materials used in connection therewith and shall cause such cleansing
to be done.
No person shall employ nor shall employment be accepted by any person
who has an infectious or contagious disease or any other disease that may
be transmitted by food, in a hotel, restaurant, dairy, bakery or boardinghouse,
nor shall such person be connected in any way with the handling of exposed
food for other persons. The Director of Public Health may require any person
so employed and suspected of having any of the above-mentioned diseases to
submit to a complete examination in order to determine the presence of such
disease and shall prohibit such person from engaging in the handling of food
supplies pending the results of the examination.
[Added 7-13-2004 by Ord. No. 04-13]
A. Title 35.1 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, shall not
apply to any City fairs or festivals sponsored by the City of Colonial Heights
or concession stands at youth athletic activities, when such stands are promoted
or sponsored by either a youth athletic association or by any charitable nonprofit
organization or group thereof which has been recognized by resolution of the
City as being part of its youth recreational program.
B. The advisory standards issued by the state board of health are
incorporated herein by reference and shall apply to the sale, preparation,
serving, transporting and handling of food at such events. The health district
director or his designee shall supervise the sale, preparation, service, transporting
and handling of food at such events.
C. It shall be the duty of the health district director, or a qualified
person designated by him, to provide education and consultation, establish
advisory standards and exercise appropriate supervision regarding the safe
preparation, handling, protection and preservation of food at such events
to protect the public health.