No waiter, cook, clerk or other person who has a notifiable disease or is a carrier of disease germs shall be allowed to work in a restaurant, hotel, kitchen, public drinking room, grocery store, ice cream parlor, soda water vending place, bakery, bakeshop, candy factory, butcher shop, dairy or other place in which food or drink is prepared, cooked, mixed, baked, exposed, bottled, packed, handled, stored, manufactured, offered for sale or sold. No person shall engage in any manner whatsoever in the handling of drinks, food or food products unless he first secures a written permit therefor from the Health Director; no owner, manager or any person in charge of any food establishment shall engage, hire, require or permit any person to be employed therein or in connection therewith, who does not furnish the above-mentioned written permit, which written permit must be unexpired. Whenever required by the Health Director any person engaged in any manner in the handling of drinks, food or food products shall submit to such physical examination as the Health Director deems necessary and reasonable in order to determine if any of such diseases are present.
Written permits must be renewed at least every six months or more frequently if deemed necessary by the Health Director. Any person, who, in applying for a permit to handle drinks or food or food products, makes a false statement in the application, shall be denied a permit for six months from date of detection of the false statement.
No person who is engaged in the preparation, handling or serving of food shall commit any insanitary act of any kind.
(1969 Code §10-1)