No food, foodstuff or drinks shall be handled, stored, prepared for sale, offered for sale, served or dispensed in any place that is unclean, filthy, insanitary or where flies, rats, cockroaches or any vermin are present, nor in any barbershop or hairdressing establishment or in any room connecting with any barbershop or hairdressing establishment. No person shall sleep in any room where food is handled, stored, prepared for sale, offered for sale, served or dispensed. In the event that any place, room or building where food or foodstuff is handled, stored, prepared for sale, offered for sale, served or dispensed becomes dirty, filthy, infested with vermin or rodents or insanitary in any manner, the owner, manager, lessee or occupant shall be given reasonable notice to remedy the condition within a stated reasonable time, and if the owner, manager, lessee or occupant fails to remedy the condition within the time given, the Health Officer or his authorized representative shall have the right to close his place of business or storeroom, and keep the place closed until such time as the place has been put in a clean and sanitary condition.
(1965 Code §10-1)