O#49ORDINANCE NO. 49.
AN O NDINANCE REG'ULATING Ti-hE PROTECTION OF FOODSTUFFS AND
DRINK FOR SikLE ~-~ND PROVIDING FOR TItE INS~CTION 0F P~CES
i~E~ FOOD AND DRINK ARE SOLD.
Section 1. Places where food is exposed shall be
kept in a sanitary condition. Every person, firm or cor-
poration keeping, maintaining, or berg in charge of any
factory, public or private m~ket, stall', stsnd, shop,
store, warehouse, cold storage, cart, wagon or other ve-
hicle in or from which any meat, meats, vegetables, bread
or bakery products, ice cream, soft drinks, candies or
any other articles or substances, intended for h~an con-
sumption, are manufactured, held, kept, stored, exposed
or offered for sale or distribution, shall~ keep the
same in a clean sanitary condition.
Section 2. Protection from flies and insects.
person, firm or corporation shall at any time place,
keep or expose, offer or prepare for sale, or store
pending ~le any article or substance of human food or
drink in any building, premises or place in the Town of
Boynton where such article or substance is not, at such
times, so screened as to prevent flying insects from
having access to such article or substance. No person,
firm or corporation, shall at ~y time bring into the
Town for sale, or carry or convey or cause to be c arried
or conveyed upon, along, or over any street or alley way
in the Town any article or substance of human food or
drink for the purpose of offering or storing for sale,
or which at such time in course of deliver'y after sale,
unless such article or substance of food or drink, at
such times be covered, screened or otherwise protected
in such a manner as not to be accessible to flying in-
sects: Provided, however, that no provision of this
section shall apply to or effect any article or sub-
stance of human food or drink which shall, at such times,
be in unbroken packages, or containers tightly closed:
Provided further: that the following foodstruffs shall
not be deemed subject to contamination from flying
sects, and shall not be required to be screened, to-wit:
watermelons or other melons, oranges or lemons where un-
sliced or unpeeled, and potatoes, collards, carrots, tur-
nips, parsnip, onions, squash and pu~apkins.
Section 3. Dining rooms of public places, bakeries,
markets, and other places shall be screened. The dining
rooms of all eating houses, hotels, boarding houses, re-
staurants, lunch-rooms, and the kitchens thereof; all
bakeries confectioneries, candy factories, ice cream
parlors and factories, soft drink stand~, places using
soda fountains, delicatessens, meat markets, and places
where milk is bottled and prepared for sale, shall
all windows, doors and openings therein properly screened
so as to exclude flies from such places.
Section 4. Inspection of places handling foodstuffs:
Notice of unsanitary conditions: refusal to comply with
violates this ordinance. It shall be the duty of the Vice
~layor or the in charge of the department of
health, to visit at frequent intervals, each private and
public market, stall, stand, shop, warehouse, coldstorage,
canning factory, hotel, boarding house, restaurant, lunch-
room, soft drink stand, bakery, ice cream factory or other
place of business regulate~ by this chapter, in the Town
of Boynton and to inspect each, and also all other wagons
and vehicles used therein, or vendors or street hawkers
in or about which any of the foodstuffs or other articles
embraced in this chapter are kept, made prepared, or held,
prepared, or carried for sale or distribution. Notice
shall be given where such premises, place, or vehicles are
found to be in an unclench, unwholesome condition, to remedy
the same; and any person, firth or corporation neglecting
or refusing to put such premises, place or vehicle in a
clean wholesome, sanitary condition ~'~ithin 24 hours from
the time notice is given in writing by the health officer
of the city so to do shall be guilty of a violation of
this ordinance, and each day that the said notice is
not complied with shall constitute a separate violation
thereof.
Section 5. Each day's failure to comply with any
notice authorized by this chapter constitutes a separate
violation. ~7here any notice shall be given under the pro-
visions of this chapter to remedy snaitary conditions mud
such notice is disregarded or neglected, after ~4 hours
from the time notice is given, unless a different period
of time is expressly provided, each day thereafter such
unsanitary conditions are willfully permitted to remian
shall constitute a separate violation of the ordinance.
Note:- If the city has no City Health Officer or Board
of Health the above ordinance can be modified so as to
-place the specified duties upon the marshal or other
responsible official.
Have the city attorney carefully examine above
ordinance and so modify it to conform with the city's
charter provisions.
The above ordinance having be~ read at a meeting
of the To~.~n Commission held on the 30th day of October,
A. D. 19~!, was finally adopted at a regular meeting
of said Commission held on tho 18th ~y of November,
~.. D. !9~, and a copy thereof pcs ted at the door of
the Town Hall.
C. F. ~uth,~ayor (Signed)
J. C. Po.~ell,Clerk (Signed)
Harry Benson,Vice ~.,[ayor (Signed)