[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 1]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Any person engaged in the business of keeping or driving
any cattle or in selling any meat.
All animals, except birds, fowl and fish, of which any part
of the body is used as food.
Any disease of an infectious, contagious or pestilential
nature with which any person may be sick, affected or attacked, including
cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, varioloid, diphtheria, ship or typhus,
typhoid and scarlet fever, plague, trichinosis, membranous croup,
leprosy, syphilis and any other disease of an infectious, contagious
or pestilential nature.
The Department of Health of the Township.
Every part of any animal that lives in water.
Every part of any land animal.
Every store, cellar, stand or place, not being a part of
a public market, at which the business is the buying, selling or keeping
for sale of meat, milk, fish or vegetables for human food.
Parks, piers, docks and wharves and water and open space
thereto adjacent, public yards, grounds and areas and open spaces
between buildings and streets and all manner of buildings which the
public have access to and where people congregate, including churches,
theaters, moving-picture houses, stations, depots and other places
of like type.
The edible part of any plant.
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Editor's Note: Former §§ 17-2, Retail Food Handling Establishment Code adopted; amendments, and 17-3, Code filed, of the 1965 Code, each as amended by Ord. No. 1259, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II). Former § 17-4 of the 1965 Code was repealed by Ord. No. 1259.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15,§ 8]
Every person having charge or being interested or engaged, whether
as principal or agent, in the care or custody or sale of any meat,
fish, bird, fowl or vegetables or other substances designed for human
food shall put and preserve such substances in a clean and wholesome
condition, and shall not allow the same or any part thereof to be
poisoned, infected or rendered unwholesome or unsafe for human food.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 2]
No person shall manufacture, have, offer for sale or sell any particles of food or drink which is adulterated within the meaning of Chapter 5 of Title 24 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 9]
No person shall sell or expose for sale any drink, meat, fish
or vegetable or other matter designed for human food that is decayed,
putrefied or has become chemically or physically changed so that it
is unwholesome or unfit for food.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to authority of Township to
prevent the sale or exposure for sale of any meat or vegetable that
is unwholesome or unfit for food, see N.J.S.A. 26:3-31j.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 3]
No milk or butter nor any other food or drink which has been
exposed to the contamination or infection of any communicable disease
shall be brought into the Township or held or offered for sale in
the Township.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 15]
Whenever any member of the Department of Health or any chemist,
inspector or other employee of the Department of Health shall find
meat, fish, bird, fowl, vegetable or other food of a perishable nature
exposed or offered for sale or had in possession with intent to sell,
in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or in the state
of rottenness or putrefaction or in any condition which renders it,
in his opinion, unwholesome or unfit for use as human food, he shall
condemn the same and cause it to be destroyed or disposed of in such
a manner as to make it impossible to be thereafter used as human food.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to condemnation and destruction
of food, see N.J.S.A. 24:4-1 et seq.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 4]
No person shall be employed in or about any food handling establishment
who is affected with any contagious disease.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 7]
Any person, being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room,
stall or place where meat, fish or vegetables or other substances
designated or held for human food is stored or kept or held or offered
for sale, shall put and keep such room, stall and place and its appurtenances
in a clean and wholesome condition.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 18, § 32]
All refrigerators or iceboxes maintained in any warehouse, mercantile
business or other place wherein animal or vegetable matter or dairy
products are kept or stored shall be open at all times when such business
is being carried on, to inspection by the Department of Health or
any authorized agent of the department. No person engaged in any such
storage or mercantile business shall allow any animal or vegetable
matter or dairy products which are foul or which are in a state of
decay, to remain within such refrigerator, icebox or other place of
storage, nor allow such refrigerators, iceboxes or other places of
storage to become foul or malodorous through the lack of proper cleaning
and disinfecting.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to cold storage, see N.J.S.A.
§ 24:9-21 et seq.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 5]
All bakers, butchers, grocers and dealers in foodstuffs of any
kind shall effectively protect all bread, pies, cakes, pastry, meat
and other foodstuffs of any kind intended for human consumption from
contamination from flies, dirt, dust and other sources of pollution
by securely wrapping the same with paper, canvas or other sanitary
coverings, or by placing the articles of foodstuffs in a sanitary
container or placing food behind a glass or plastic enclosure satisfactory
to the Department of Health, whenever the articles of foodstuffs,
if not so wrapped and protected, would be exposed to the open air.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 6]
Whenever any articles of foodstuffs shall be conveyed in a vehicle of any kind for the purpose of peddling or for the purpose of delivery to customers the articles of foodstuffs shall either be protected and covered in the manner specified in § 17-13 or such vehicle, so used in conveying or transporting the articles of foodstuffs, shall be entirely enclosed on all sides, in order to protect the articles of foodstuffs from contamination, or being rendered unsanitary by exposure to flies, dirt, dust or other sources of pollution.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 11]
No food shall be offered for sale from shelves, counters or
other containers which shall be less than 24 inches from the floor
of the store in which such food is exposed for sale, or from the sidewalk
or other surface on which such shelves, counters or other containers
shall stand, except those sealed in airtight containers.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 16]
All persons engaged in the business of dispensing ice cream
or refreshments may use paper containers for dispensing such ice cream
or refreshments and shall sterilize by heat or boiling water all glasses,
cups, dishes or other containers and utensils used in dispensing such
ice cream or other refreshments.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to ice cream and other frozen
products, see N.J.S.A. 24:10-73.1 et seq.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 12]
Bottles or other containers used for the delivery of food or
drink shall not be stored or left standing in the street or other
public places of the Township.
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Editor's Note: For state law as to sanitation in food establishments
see N.J.S.A. 24:15-1 et seq. As to authority of Township to license
and regulate the sanitary conditions of restaurants, cafes, etc.,
see N.J.S.A. 26:3-31c. See also N.J.S.A. 40:52-1d.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 15, § 18]
No vehicles used in the transportation of ice shall, while actually
engaged in such transportation, be used for any other purpose.
[Ord. No. 1002. § 5;
amended by Ord. No. 1259, § 4;
at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art II)]
