The following definitions shall apply to the
interpretation and enforcement of this code:
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.
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.
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.