HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD Undated - Food HandlersAN ORDINANCE
.AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING FOR THE HEALTH aFP INATION AND REGISTI,.MON
OF FOOD HANDLERS IN THE CITY OF GEORGET'01114 , TEXAS, DEFINING
CERTAIN PHRASES AND WORDS IN ThI7 ORDI TI CE, 'PRESCRIBING PENALTIES
FOR. VIOLATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF' THIS,ORDINANCE,, REPEALING ORDIIsim'CES
OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT EBRIT' ITH AND PROVIDING A SAVING
CLAUSE 0
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF' GEORGETOWN S
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION Is To safeguard and promote public health in the City of Georgetown
Texas, the following definitions shall apply in the interpretatiol and en«
forcernt'of this ordinance.
Ia) The term'{food handler" shall mean any person employed or working
in a food establishment who handles food and/or drink during preparation or
serving, or who comes in contact with any eating, drinking, or cooking utensil
or who works in a room or rooms in which food or drink is prepared, served or
stored.
(b) The terra "food establishment" shall mean any hotel, restaurant,
cafe, , tever, grocery store, bakery, fruit. stand, `bottling plant, or any other
place where food or drink is handled. stored, packed, served, or sold in the
City of eor &etowne Texas,'
ARTICLE II
EXATMINATIOMSo REGISTRATIONS
SECTION I. FOOD HANDLERS TO COMPLY NITH STATE LAWS AND CITE'
ORDINANCES AND SECURE REGISTRATIONS MERTIFICATES.
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, ,corporation, or
association, managing or conducting any food establishment where food or
drink or containers oaf any kind is manufactured, transferred, prepared, stored,
packed, served, sold or otherwise htandled, to work or employ any food handler
until such food handler has fully complied with all state laws and regulations
and all City ordinances now or hereafter�enaeted and with all the provisions of
this ordinance, until such food handler has received a food handler's registration
certificate frons, the 1r111liamson County Health Department which is valid at the
time of such employment*
SECTION II. ISSUANCE OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATESs
The Williamson County Health Department shall issue food handlers' re-
gistration certificates to food handlers whosatisfactorilypass the test and
health examinations 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 III. HEALTH EXAMINATION:
No food handler's registration certificate for use in the City of
222E§e, Texas, shall be issued by the Williamson County Health Departme
to any persona required by law or by this ordinance to have or exhibit such
certificate, certifying the holder to be free from contagious, infectious or
communicable diseases, until the applicant for such certificate shall have be
first tested and examined under the recognized standard test for syphilis, wh'
must be given by the Williamson County Health Department or the Texas State
Health Department , or by a physician licensed to practice in Williamson, Cou
Texas. and if the specimen is thea found to have no positive reaction, the
applicant must then secure a certificate from a licensed practicing physician
indicating that the r3 >:3wcas;ax ination shows the applicant to be free of al
contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases, which certificate must then
presented to the Williamson County health Departmento
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It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, ,corporation, or
association, managing or conducting any food establishment where food or
drink or containers oaf any kind is manufactured, transferred, prepared, stored,
packed, served, sold or otherwise htandled, to work or employ any food handler
until such food handler has fully complied with all state laws and regulations
and all City ordinances now or hereafter�enaeted and with all the provisions of
this ordinance, until such food handler has received a food handler's registration
certificate frons, the 1r111liamson County Health Department which is valid at the
time of such employment*
SECTION II. ISSUANCE OF REGISTRATION CERTIFICATESs
The Williamson County Health Department shall issue food handlers' re-
gistration certificates to food handlers whosatisfactorilypass the test and
health examinations 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 III. HEALTH EXAMINATION:
No food handler's registration certificate for use in the City of
222E§e, Texas, shall be issued by the Williamson County Health Departme
to any persona required by law or by this ordinance to have or exhibit such
certificate, certifying the holder to be free from contagious, infectious or
communicable diseases, until the applicant for such certificate shall have be
first tested and examined under the recognized standard test for syphilis, wh'
must be given by the Williamson County Health Department or the Texas State
Health Department , or by a physician licensed to practice in Williamson, Cou
Texas. and if the specimen is thea found to have no positive reaction, the
applicant must then secure a certificate from a licensed practicing physician
indicating that the r3 >:3wcas;ax ination shows the applicant to be free of al
contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases, which certificate must then
presented to the Williamson County health Departmento
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SECTION IV. TUBERCULOSIS EYWAINATIONS
In addition to the foregoing, each such applicant
once each year to be further examined for tuberculosis by t
test and/or xaray examination of the lungs, and in the even
takes the tuberculin skin test and it shows a positive reac
shall be required to have an x-ray examination of the lungs
physician in Williamson County, Texas, or by the l`ailliamson
Department. In the event the tuberculin skin test and/or
of the lungs show the applicant to be free of tuberculosis,
County health Department or physician making the test "Or th
as the case may be, shall issue to the applicant a certific
applicant to be free of tuberculosis. The applicant shall
physical examination certificate and his tuberculosis exami
to the 'ill amson County health Department and shall thereu
food handler's registration certificate by said Williamson
Department , which shall be valid twelve (12) months from
taking of said physical exam nation. Each such certificat
by each such applicant ,each twelve (12):months .'by the same p
lined above.
ARTICLE III
ENFORCMEzn , PENALT IES, REPEAL, ETC.
SECTION I. MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR FOOD HANDLERS TO WORKWITHOUTATIO REGISTRCERTIFICA 9 s
It shall hereafter be unlawful far any food handler,
this ordinance, to work for any person, firm, dorporation o
as a food handler in the City of Georgetown , Texas, witho
or her possession a food handler'ss•�`Fration certificate
her by the Williamson County health Department, which is va
such employment.
SECTION II. COMMICABLE DISEASE CONTROL:
When the City health Officer, the Director of the Wi
wealth Department or a representative os said department h
that there exists a possibility of transmission of infectl
handler, he ;shall be authorized to require any or all €sf t
(a) The immediate exclusion of the employee,
from all food establishments.
(b) The immediate closing of the food establ
until no further danger of disease outbreak exists.
(c) .Adequate medical examinations of the emp
associates, with such laboratory examinations as may be indi
of such examinations shall be the responsibility of the empl
SECTION III. PENALTY:
hall be required
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the applicant
ion, such applicant
by a licensed
jounty ftealth
• ray examination
the �41111amson
examination,
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;hen present his
Ltion certificate
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must be renewed
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Any person who shall violate any of the provisions hereof shall be
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined ih any sum not less
than Ten 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 IV. REPEALING CLAUSES
All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict wi`h this ordinance
are hereby expressly repealed insofar as the same are in con lict with this
ordinance*
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SECTION V., SEVEk:ABILI1'Y:
If any pare of this ordinance be declared invalid for any reason,
such valid part shall not affect the remainder hereof and such remainder
shall remain in full force and effects
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IUYOR , CITY OF GEOR.GETOWN0 TEXtiS.
ATTESTS
CITY SECRETARY
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