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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 12.08.1969 - Registration of Food Handlers169 AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING MR THE HEALTH EXAMINATION AND. REGISTRATION OF FOOD HANDLERS IN THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, DEFINING CERTAIN PHILXSES AND WORDS IN THIS 01MINANCE, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE, ILEYEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH AND PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE, BE IT OlQ IN -- BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS. ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS Section I. To safeguard and promote public health in the City of Georgetown, Texas, the following 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, bootling plant, or any other place where food or drink is handles, stored, packed,' served, or sold in the City of Georgetown, Texas. ARTICLE II EXAMINATION, Ii,EGIS11LITIONS Section 1. FOOD HANDLERS TO COMPLY WITH STATE LA1,VS AND CITY ORDINANCES AND_ SECURE REGISTRATIONS CERTIFICATES. 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 withh all 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 CE11TIFICATFS: The Williamson County Health Department shall issue food handler's regist- ration eertificates to food handlers who satisfactorily pass the test and healt'.-i 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 EXAMINATION: No food handler's registration certificate for use in the City of George- town, Texas, shall be issued by the V-.illiamson 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 given 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. TUBERCULOSIS EXAMINATION: 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 certificate showing the applicant to be free of tuberculosis. 10 Section 5. ACTUAL ISSUANCE AND EFFECTIVE PERIOD OF FOOD IIANDLM'S REGIST- RATION CERTIFICATE. After the above has been accomplished, the applicant shall then pre- sent himself or herself to the Williamson County Health Department and shall thereupon be issued a foodhandler's registration certificate by said Williamson County Health Department which shall be -valid twelve (12) months from the time of taking such physical examination. Each such certificate rust be renewed by each such applicant each twelve (12) months by the same procedure as outlined above. ARTICLE III ENFORC13lINT, PENALTIES, REPE.A_L, ETC. Section 1. \MING IT UNLAWFUL FOR FOOD HANDLERS TO WORK AS SUCH WITHOUT REGISTRATIO_'v CI.NTIFICATE. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any food handler, as defined in this ordinance, to work'for any person, firm:, corporation or association as a food handler in the City of Georgetown, Texas, without having a food handler's registration certificate issued to him or her by the Williamson County Health Department, which is valid at the time of such employment. Said food handler's registration certificate shall be surrendered to the employer who will post it in a conspicuous location. Section 2. C012%.Lr3ICABLE DISEASE CONTROL: When the City health Officer, the Director of the Williamson County Health Department or a representative of said department has reason to believe that there exists a possibility of transmission of infection from a food handler, he shall be authorized to require any or all of the following: (A) The immediate exclusinn of the employee, as an employee, from all food establishments. (B) The immediate closing of the food establishment concerned until no further danger of disease outbreak exists. (C) Adequate medical examinations of'the employee and of his associates, with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated. The expense of such examinations is to be the responsibility of the employer. Section 3. PENALTY. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions hereof shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than `Pen Dollars ($10.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and each day that a violation hereof continues shall constitute a separate offense. , Section 4. REPEALING CLAUSE: All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby expressly repealed insofar as the same are in conflict with this ordinance. Section 5, SEV&MBILITY: If any part of this ordinance be declared invalid for any reason, such invalid part shall not effect the remainder hereof and such remainder shall remain in full force and effect. This ordinance shall become effective when. publication has been com- pleted as provided by the Charter of the City of Georgetown, Texas. Unanimously PASSED, APPROVED AND APOPTED this the Sth. day of December, 1969. ATTEST: CLA..;DE EADS , CITY SECRETARY JAY C. SLOAN, MAYOR,;CITY OF GOI+ G O1Vj_d, TLXA1 , '