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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1953. 4) ." ` y ORDINANCE NO., All ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RENTON' WASHINGTON, AM3N�ING CHAPTER 1 OF TITLE VIII (HEALTH AND SANITATION) OF ORDINANCE NO. 1628 ENTITLED "CODE OF GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF RENTON't RELAMIG TO EATING ESTABLISIDENTS AND FOOD STORES. SECTION I: Existing Section 8-101 of Title VIII (Health and Sanitation) of Ordinance No. 1628 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 8-101, as amended: DEFINITIONS: The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and the enforcement of this Chapter and the rules and regulations therein adopted. (a) Food: The term ttfood" shall mean and include any particle or ingredient, be it solid, liquid, or otherwise, which is ordinarily taken or intended to be taken into the human mouth and chewed, or ingested, for the enjoyment of its taste or the pleasure of chewing, or for the growth, sustenance, energy, operation and repair of the human body, or to preserve or restore its health, or to flavor or make food more pleasant and attractive, such as; meat and meat products, milk and milk products, bread and bakery products, fruits and vegetables, berries, birds, shell -fish, fish, seafood, flavors, confections, condiments, water, ice, drinks of all kinds, and similar articles, products or ingredients. (b) Restaurant: The term "restaurants' shall mean any place where food and drink is served to or provided for the public with or without charge; such as hotels, restaurants, cafes, cafeterias, boarding houses, street vendors or stalls; private, public, parochial, or Sunday schools; churches and public institutions; and railway stations and recreational and labor camps. (c) Drinking Places: The term '=drinking place" shall mean any place where drink is served to or provided for the public with or without charge, such as bars, taverns, and soda fountains. (d) Itinerant Restaurants and Drinking Places: The term "itinerant restau- rant" or "itinerant drinking place" shall mean one operating for a temporary period in connection with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition, or other similar gathering. (e) Grocery ar_d Food Markets: The term "grocery" or "food market" shall mean any place, wholesale or retail, where food, in bulk or package form, is provided for the public for preparation and service elsewhere; such as, grocery stores, retail bakeries, candy sales agencies, fruit and vegetable markets, meat markets, fish markets, poultry markets, or stalls. For the purpose of these regulations the term "restaurant" -1- shall apply to groceries or food markets. This section shall not be interpreted to include slaughter houses. (f) Peddling: Any person, either as principal or agent, who shall sell, offer or expose for sale any item of food, either at wholesale or retail, by going from house to house, place to place, or upon any street, highway or public place, is hereby defined to be peddling within the meaning of this ordinance. Also the vending of food from a mobile unit parked in a regularly assigned parking place on any street, highway or public place is hereby defined as peddling. For the purpose of these regu- lations, the term "restaurant" shall apply to all acts of peddling. (g) Employee: The term "employee" shall mean any person working in any of the establishments defined in Section 1, (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), who handles food or drink during preparation or serving, or who comes in contact with any eating or cooking utensils or who is employed at any time in a room in which food or drink is pre- pared, served, or sold for preparation and service elsewhere. (h) Utensils: The term "utensils" shall include any kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, utensils, containers, or other equipment with which food or drink comes in contact during stcrage, preparation or serving. (i) Health Officer: The term "health officer" shall mean the King County Health Officer., the Renton City Health Officer or his authorized representative. (j) Person: The term "Person" shall mean person, firm, corporation, partner- ship, or association. SECTION II: Existing Section 8-102 entitled IlPermits" is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 8-102, as amended: PERYJTS: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a restaurant, drinking place, itinerant restaurant and drinking place, grocery, food market, or engage in peddling in the City of Renton, King County, who does not possess an unrevoked permit issued by the health officer and in whose place of opera- tion or business such permit is not at all times posted or displayed in a conspicuous place designated by the health officer. Permits shall be valid from date of issuance to the last day of the calendar year. Only persons who comply with the requirements of this -ordinance: and these rules and regulations shall be entitled to receive and retain such a permit; these permits shall be non -transferable. Such a permit may be suspended by the health officer or revoked after an -2- opportunity for a hearing by the health officer upon the violationrby the holder of any of the terms of this ordinance or these rules and regulations. If the permit is suspended or revoked, the health officer shall post in a conspicuous place a suitable notice to the public that said establishment is closed by reason of non- compliance with this ordinance and said establishment shall remain closed until compli- ance with the order of the health officer; and, provided further, it shall be unlawful for any person operating any establishment defined within the terms of this ordinance to destroy, deface or remove said notice of closure or to act in defiance thereof. Providing further, however, that an appeal may be taken to the City Council from the order of the health officer revoking.or suspending any such permit. Any ap- peal shall be taken within. ten (10) days from issuance of the order by serving a copy of a written notice thereof on the health officer and filing the original with the City Clerk. The food establishment shall remain closed pending the decision of the City Council. SECTIO? III: Sub -Section 14 of Existing Section 8-104 entitled "Sanitation Requirements" is hereby amended as follows: Sub -Section 14 of Section 8-104, as amended: A. Wholesomeness of Food and Drink: All food and drink shall be wholesome and free from spoilage, and comply with all existing state laws, rules and regulations. B. Duty and Power to Enter, Seize, Condemn and Destroy: The health officer shall have the authority to enter any food establishment and open any barrel, can container, vessel, box, jar, or package of any kind, whether sealed, locked or other- wise, or whether in transit or otherwise, and to take samples or specimens thereof for examination, analysis, or evidence. It shall be the duty of said health officer to forthwith seize, condemn, and destroy or cause to be seized, condemned, or destroyed, all unwholesome or potentially unwholesome or dangerous food; provided, that in case there is any doubt in the mind of the health officer as to the condition of any such food he may affix or cause to be affixed to said food, or to the containers in which it is enclosed, a tag, stamp, seal or other device indicating that the said food and its containers have been held for further investigation by the health officer. C. Unlawful to Remove Tag: It shall be unlawful for any person to alter, remove, deface, or obliterate any tag, stamp, seal, placard or notice, or other device affixed by the health officer, or to remove the food in any container so marked or held for investigation by the health officer from its container to any other place, -3- or to instigate or permit the changing., removal, defacement, or obliteration of said tag, stamp, seal, placard, notice or other mark, or the removal to any other place of such food, or the containers thereof so marked, without the permission of the health officer. SECTION IV: Existing Section 8-111 entitled "Food Employee's health Record or Permit" is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 8-111, as amended: FOOD alPLOYEEIS HEALTH RECORD OR PERAIT: (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to be employed in the handling of um rapped or unpackaged food unless he or she shall furnish and place on file with the person in charge of such establishment, a food and beverage service worker's permit, as prescribed by the state board of health. Such permit shall be kept on file by the employer and open for inspection at all reasonable hours by authorized public health officials. Such permit shall be returned to the employee upon termina- tion of employment. Permits shall be valid for two years from date of issuance, and each employee shall furnish the person in charge of said food handling establishments such permit biennially. It shall be the duty of every employer to require each per- son employed as herein specified to apply for and have issued to such person a valid health permit during such employment. (b) The permit provided for in the proceeding paragraph sha.l.l be valid in every city, town and county in the state, for the period for which it is issued, and no other health certificate shall be required of such employees by any municipal corporation or political subdivision of the state. The cost of the permit shall be uniform throughout the state and shall be in that amount set by the state board of health, not to exceed two dollars ($2.00). (c) It shall be unlawful for any person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease to work in or about any place where unwrapped or unpackaged food and/or beverage products are prepared or sold, or offered for sale for human consump- tion and it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to employ a person so afflicted. (d) This Section shall apply only to retail establishments regularly engaged in the business of food handling or food service. (e) Individuals under this Section shall have thirty days (30) from com- I mencement of employment to secure health permits. SECTION V: All other terms and provisions of Chapter 1 of Title VIII (Health and Sanitation) of Ordinance No, 1628 shall remain in full force and effect. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this &4-6 day of April, 1962. - - — z �J' -�- I '-'� �/� Helmi.e Nelson, City Cle k APPROVED BY THE MAYOR, this /� day of April, 1962. rants Aliment, tiayor APPROVED AS TO FORM: Gerard M. Shellan, City Attorney DATE CF PU'! ICAT1CN AFRI f ign -5-