No person, firm or corporation owning or conducting any place where food is prepared, cooked, mixed, baked, exposed, bottled, packed, handled, stored, manufactured, offered for sale or sold shall knowingly employ any person who is affected with any communicable disease or with any venereal disease in a communicable form to work in such place controlled, owned or operated by such person, firm or corporation. Whenever required by the official charged with the enforcement of this chapter, any person employed in such place shall submit to a physical examination by a medical inspector of the Department of Health. No person who refuses to submit to such examination shall work or be permitted to work in any such place. Provided, however, that if any person affected or believed to be affected with such communicable or venereal disease above described furnishes a certificate from a reputable, legally qualified physician of the City, satisfactory to the Department of Health, stating that he is not affected with any such disease, then such person shall not be required to submit to such examination as is hereinabove provided.
(1952 Code § 19-4-14; Ord. 281-57.)