§ 440.3. PROHIBITION.  


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  • (a) No person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture, handling or sale of food stuffs shall require, permit or allow any person suffering from any communicable disease to work, lodge, sleep or remain within or upon the premises.
    (b) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to allow any dog or dogs or cat or cats, to enter any place of business designated in Section 440, provided, however, that this subsection shall not apply to any Seeing-Eye dog accompanied by a blind person.
    (c) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to display on the street, or in the open air, food products liable to be injured, infected or polluted, without adequate protection from dirt, flies, animals or insects.
    (d) The carrying on of any occupation in the place or room set apart for the preparation, storage, or sale of foodstuffs, whether cooked or raw or any allied operations that will generate or cause to arise a dust, smoke or offensive odor, is prohibited.
    (e) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use any stable or other place where animals are kept as a place of storage for fruits, vegetables, meats, milk or any other foodstuffs.
    (f) The plucking of chickens and other fowl, and the skinning or cleaning of animals shall be carried on in a separate room, and all dust, smoke or offensive odors arising therefrom must be disposed of by air shafts, fans, forced air, or such other means as may be approved by the Department of Public Health.
    (g) No person shall be allowed to nor shall he reside or sleep in any room of a bake shop, public dining room, hotel, restaurant, kitchen, confectionery, or other place where food or foodstuffs are prepared, produced, manufactured, served or sold.
    (h) It shall be the duty of every occupant, whether owner or lessee, of any bakery, candy factory, delicatessen, restaurant, warehouse or other place where foodstuff are manufactured, prepared, stored commercially in opened or unopened containers or served, to provide full protection for his cooked food and other wares from dust, dirt, flies and vermin by the use of suitable glass cases, wire screens or other methods approved by the Department of Public Health, and shall cause the abatement and destruction of vermin and flies wherever found.
    (Added by Ord. 237-63; App. 9/6/63)