(A) Every restaurant or other food establishment shall be equipped with a water flush toilet, sink and running water, which shall be so located as to be convenient to the rooms used for food handling purposes. All toilets shall be adjacent to lavatories or washrooms, which shall, at all times, be supplied with soap and towels. The floors of the toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile laid in cement or other non- absorbent material. No door or other opening from a toilet room shall open directly into a kitchen, dining room or other place where foods are served, cooked or prepared.
(B) When such an opening occurs an anteroom ventilated to the outer air with a solid door shall be provided between the lavatory, kitchen or food establishment. No owner, proprietor or manager of any establishment shall provide or expose any toweling or similar article, except individual paper towels, for use of the public generally in any place under his or her control, or permit any cloth towel or similar article to be provided or exposed unless the towel has been laundered after each separate use.
(C) The owner, operator or manager of every food handling place shall take every precaution to keep the premises free and rid of rats, mice, roaches, ants or other vermin or pests.
(D) Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Health Officer that any premises or establishment engaged in the handling or preparation of food for sale or distribution is infested with rodents, vermin or pests, a written notice shall be given to the person owning, controlling, leasing or acting as agents for or managing the establishment that the infestation with rodents, vermin or pests constitutes a public nuisance and endangers public health, peace and safety, and that the infestation shall be abated within 30 days from the date of receiving written notice. Failure to comply with the written notice in 30 days shall constitute a violation of the provisions of this chapter and the Health Officer shall suspend the permit and close the establishment until the nuisance has been abated.
(E) No dogs, cats or other animals shall be harbored or permitted in any establishment where food is prepared for sale or distribution.
(F) No owner, proprietor or manager of any food establishment shall provide or use on the floors any sawdust or similar material, except that butcher shops may use sawdust on floors in a cooler or behind a counter.
(G) Sufficient metal garbage cans, with fly-tight covers, shall be provided for all garbage, vegetable trimmings, trash or other refuse from a restaurant or other food establishment. A sufficient number of cans shall be available to prevent overloading and tight-fitting covers shall, at all times, be kept in place. Where there is an excess of vegetable trimmings or other waste material subject to decomposition, a screen room shall be constructed of screen wire of not less than 14 mesh to the inch and shall be fly tight. All such excess waste materials shall be kept in the screen room until removal from the premises. All garbage or food waste products subject to fermentation or decomposition shall be removed each day except Sunday or legal holidays when the establishments are closed to the public.
(1966 Code, § 7-14) (Ord. 187, Art. 2, §§ 21, 22, 24, 25, 28)