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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0176_169169 AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING FOR THE HEALTH 1IN:ITION AND . REGISTRATION OF FOOD HANDLMS IN THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TID AS, DEFINING CERTAIN PMLASES AND WORDS IN TIIIS ORDINANCE, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF THIS 010INANCE;, R.E:PEALING ORDIN LACES IN CONFLICT HERMITH AND PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TMAS . ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS Section I. To safeguard and promote public health in the City of Georgetown, Texas, the followinn definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforce- ment of this ordinance. (A) The term "food handler" shall mean any person employed or working in a food establishment who hankles food and/or drink during preparation or serving, or who comes in contact with andy eating, drinking, or cooking utensils, or who worksin a room or rooms in which food or drink is prepared, served or stored. (B) The term ` food establishment" shall mean any hotel, restaurant, cafe, tavern, grocery store, bakery, fruit stand, hootling plant, or any other place where food or drink is handles, stored, pabked; served, or sold in the City of Georgetown, Texas. Q ARTICLE II EXAMINATION, REUSTILITIONS Section 1. FOOD HANDLERS TO COMPLY WITII STATE LAWS AND CITY ORDIN:I,NCES AND SECURE RFEGISTIITIONS CEILTIMATES. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or assoc- iation, managing or conducting any food establishment where food or drink or containers of any kind is manufactured, transferred, prepared, stored, packed, served, sold or otherwise handled, to work or employ any food handler until such food handler has fully complied with call state laws and regulations and all City ordinances now or, herafter enacted and with all the provisions of this ordinance until such food handler has received a food handlers' regustration certificate from the Williamson County Health Department which is valid at the time of such employment. Section 2. ISSUANCE OF REGISTRATION CULTIFICATES: The Williamson County Health Department shal•1 issue food handler's regist- ration eertificates to food handlers who satisfactorily pass the test and health examination hereinafter described, which certificates shall be valid for the length of time hereinafter specified and shall be required to be renewed as hereinafter stated. Section 3, HEALTH MIMINATION: No food handler's registration certificate for use in the City of George- town, Texas, shall be issued by the Williamson County Health Department to any person required by law or by this ordinance to have or exhibit such certificate cerifying the holder to be free from contagious, infectious or communicable diseases, until the applicant for such certificate shall have been first tested and examined under the recognized standard test or syphilis, which must be I;iven by the Williamson County Health Department, or the Texas State health Depart- ment, or by a physician licensed to practice in Williamson County, Texas. Section 4. TUDiliCULUS IS TDLkN!INAI'ION : In addition to the foregoing, each such applicant shall be required once each year to be further examined for tuberculosis by tuberculin skin test and/or X-ray examination of the lungs, and in the event the applicant takes the tuber- culin skin test and it shows a positive reaction, such applicant shall be required to have an X-ray examination of the lungs by a licensed physician in Williamson County, Texas, or by the Williamson County health Department. In the event the tuberculin skin test and/or X-ray examination of the lungs show the applicant to be free of tuberculosis, the Williamson County Health Department or physician making the test or the examination, as the case may be, shall issue to the applicant a certifteate showing the applicant to be free of tuberculosis.