It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation, engaged in maintaining, conducting, carrying on, or managing a restaurant place, kitchen, meat market, fruit store, vegetable store, delicatessen store, bakery store, street vendor’s store, or any other place in which or where food is prepared, sold, or disposed of for human consumption, to maintain, conduct, carry on, or manage said place or store, except in the manner provided for in this Section 412.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation to maintain, conduct, carry on, or manage a restaurant place or kitchen where foodstuffs are cooked or prepared for human consumption, unless the doors, windows, apertures, or other openings to the place where food preparation occurs are effectively enclosed with finely woven wire mesh screens. Dining areas and bars are not required to be enclosed, provided that no food preparation occurs there other than adding ingredients to a beverage or dispensing into a serving container when the beverage is prepared for immediate service in response to an individual consumer order.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., to maintain, conduct, carry on or manage a meat market, fruit store, vegetable store, poultry store, delicatessen store or bakery store where food is offered for sale or disposed of for human consumption, unless all doors, windows, apertures and other openings to the premises or place where the business above mentioned is conducted, carried on, maintained or managed are tightly enclosed with finely woven wire mesh screens; and, furthermore, unless the food which is offered for sale or disposed of is kept within the doors of the store or place where said business is maintained, conducted, carried on or managed.
Provided, however, that this Section shall not apply to those who sell or offer for sale fruit solely in original, covered or unbroken packages.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to maintain, conduct, carry on or manage a street stand, whether stationary or movable, where is exposed for sale any food, candy or other edibles for human consumption, whether consumed at said stand or elsewhere, unless the said stand is furnished with tight glass cases, so as to protect said food, candy or other edibles from exposure to dirt, dust, flies or other insects.
Provided that this Section shall not apply to fruit or vegetables exposed for sale in street stands, stationary or movable.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to maintain, conduct, carry on or manage a street stand, whether stationary or movable, where is exposed for sale any fruit or vegetables, whether consumed at the said stand or elsewhere, unless the said stand is furnished, so as to protect said fruit and vegetables, with tight glass cases or finely woven wire mesh screens, mosquito netting, or other dirt, dust and fly proof covering, so placed over and about said fruit or vegetables as not to touch the same at any point.
Nothing contained in this Section shall require those selling or offering for sale bananas, pineapples, oranges, limes, lemons, or other citrus fruits, or fruits or vegetables whose rind or skin must be removed before eating, to enclose said fruits or vegetables with any covering or to keep the same within the doors of the store or place where the same may be sold or offered for sale.
(Amended by Ord. 205-19, File No. 181211, App. 9/11/2019, Eff. 10/12/2019)