The following definitions shall apply to the interpretation and enforcement of this code:
BOARD OF HEALTH, THE BOARD, THIS BOARD or SAID BOARD
The Board of Health of the Borough of Middlesex or its official representative, except where otherwise specified, when the Board is not in session.
BOROUGH, THE BOROUGH, THIS BOROUGH or MUNICIPALITY
The Borough of Middlesex, New Jersey.
FOOD-HANDLING ESTABLISHMENT
Any factory, store, market, room or other place where food or nonalcoholic drink for consumption is manufactured, processed, prepared, handled, stored, displayed or sold.
HEALTH OFFICER or SANITATION
The Health Officer of the Borough of Middlesex appointed by the Board of Health of the Borough of Middlesex.
ISOLATION
The placing apart of a person, persons or animals affected with or exposed to a communicable disease for the purpose of preventing contact with other persons, or animals, and the establishment of a restriction directly surrounding such person, persons or animals.
ITINERANT RESTAURANT
One operating for a temporary period in connection with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition or other similar gatherings, or from a vehicle, wagon, truck or other conveyance.
LICENSE
The formal written permission to perform certain acts or carry on a certain business embodied in the document granting such permission, issued by this Board in accordance with its rules and regulations and the Sanitary Code.
OPERATOR
Any person who by contract, agreement or ownership conducts a restaurant, food-handling establishment, itinerant restaurant or operates a vending machine or apparatus, or who vends any food or food products within the Borough.
PERSON
Any person or persons, firm, corporation or association of persons, and “he,” “his” or “him” shall include those of the female sex.
QUARANTINE
The placing of restrictions upon households or premises or the persons or animals thereof for the purpose of preventing the spread of a communicable disease to other persons, animals, households or premises.
RESTAURANT
Restaurant, hotel, coffee shop, dining room, cafeteria, luncheonette, soda fountain, sandwich stand, sandwich wagon or any other place where food or drink is prepared, handled, stored, sold or served for consumption on the premises to the public, organization members or employees, with or without charge.
SALE
Every delivery of food whether the same be direct sale or the solicitation or acceptance of an order for food, and including exchange, barter, traffic in, keeping and exposing for sale, displaying for sale, serving with meals, delivering for value, peddling, possessing with intent to sell, the gratuitous delivery or gift of any food by any licensee or person to whom a food certificate has been issued or by any other person.
SANITARY or SANITATION
That degree of cleanliness as this Board may demand.
SANITIZATION
The process of rending eating or drinking utensils free from disease bacteria and other organisms indicative of insanitary conditions.
STATE SANITARY CODE
The State Sanitary Code enacted by the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey.
STERILIZATION
The destruction of all microbial life on or in an object.
Any definition herein contained shall apply to the same word in any other form. Example: "sell" means to make a "sale" as above defined.