Defining Resturant, Food, Itinerant Restaurant and Fixing Penalties

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SECTION IV. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell through a restaurant or itinerant restaurant any food which is unwholesome, adulterated or misbranded. Samples of food may be taken and examined by the health officer as often as may be necessary to determine freedom from unwholesomeness, adulteration, or misbranding. The health officer may, on written notice to the owner or operator, impound and forbid the sale of any food which is unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded, or which he has probable cause to believe to be unwholesome, adulterated or misbranded. The health officer may cause to be removed or destroyed any food which in his opinion is unwholesome, adulterated or mis- branded; provided, that in the case of misbranding which can be corrected by proper labeling, such food may be released to the operator for correct labeling under the supervision of the health officer. SECTION V. DISEASE CONTROL. A. Disease Control. No person who is affected with any disease in a communicable form or is a carrier of such disease shall work in any restaurant, and no restaurant shall employ any such person or any person suspected of being affected with any disease in a communicable form or of being a carrier of such disease. If the restaurant manager suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease he shall notify the health officer immediately. B. Procedure When Infection Suspected. When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission of infection from any restaurant employee, the health officer is authorized to require any or all of the following measures: 1. The immediate exclusion of the employee from all restaurants. 2. The immediate closing of the restaurant concerned until no further danger of disease outbreak exists in the opinion of the health officer. 3. Adequate medical examination of the employee and of his associates with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated. SECTION VI. INSPECTION OF RESTAURANTS. A. Frequency of Inspection. At least once each three months the health officer shall inspect each restaurant for which a permit is required under the provisions of this Ordinance. B. Procedure When Violations Noted. If during the inspection of any restaurant the health officer discovers the violation of any of the sanitation requirements in Section 3 of this Ordinance, he shall issue a written order listing such violations to the proprietor, or, in his absence, to the person in charge, and fixing a time within which the said proprietor of said restaurant shall abate and remedy such violations. A copy of the written order shall be filed with the records of the health department. C. Authority to Inspect and_to Copy Records. The person operating the restaurant shall, upon the request of the Health Officer, permit such health officer or his authorized representative access to all parts of such restaurant and shall permit copying any or all records relative to the enforcement of this Ordinance. -3-