(A) No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale, or cause or permit to be sold, exposed or offered for sale, in the county, any article of food prepared for human consumption, including crackers; rolls; buns; biscuits; muffins; bread; cake; cookies; pies; candies; cooked, smoked or pickled meat or fish; cooked, dried or pickled vegetables or fruit; salad; butter; cheese; or any article of food intended for human consumption, which article of food is smoked, dried or otherwise prepared and intended for human consumption without further cooking, washing or other preparation, unless the article or articles of food are covered or enclosed by glass or with some substance or material in such a manner as to prevent the handling of any such article or articles for sale by any person other than the person selling, offering or exposing any such article or articles for sale; and to prevent any such article of food from coming in contact with any deleterious, unwholesome or unhealthy substance or commodities; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to uncovering food in the process of preparation or display for immediate consumption on the premises where steam tables or other service tables approved by the Health Department are in use and properly protected from unwholesome or unhealthy contamination as provided in this chapter.
(B) All foods and beverages in the process of preparation, distribution or display shall be securely protected from flies, dust, dirt and other foreign, injurious contamination.
(C) All kitchens of hotels, restaurants, lunch counters, cafeterias, candy factories, soda fountains, ice cream parlors or other places where food is prepared or kept shall have wire screens at all outside openings for the purpose of excluding flies and other insects. All screened doors shall be self closing. In addition to the screens so provided, all foods shall be protected from dust, dirt and flies. All screening used in such places shall be no less than 14 inch mesh.
(D) All surplus boxes, crates, lug boxes and similar containers in which fruits, vegetables and other products are delivered or received by a restaurant or other food establishment shall be kept in orderly condition, and shall not be allowed to accumulate on the premises. Each container shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and removed from premises daily, or at intervals determined by the Health Officer.
(E) Deciduous fruits, or other foods subject to damage by the rays of the sun, shall be kept, at all times, well inside of any building of a food establishment or other restaurant and elevated not less than 18 inches above the floor level.
(1966 Code, § 7-12) (Ord. 187, Art. 2, §§ 16, 17, 23, 26, 27)