The Health Officer shall actively inspect or cause to be inspected
all milk, milk products, foods, and beverages of all kinds, kept or
exposed for sale in the city. He shall have power to appoint any person
or persons by and with the consent of the Board of Commissioners,
to assist him in performance of his duties. Said inspector, while
in the discharge of his duties as defined herein shall have the right
to enter upon the premises of any person keeping or exposing such
article for sale. He shall have the right to inspect any animal in
the city, any produce, poultry, groceries, food, milk, food products,
milk products, and to enter upon any premises for such purposes, provided
such animal or article or product are kept or being kept or offered
for the purpose of sale and he shall be allowed access to all places
where such articles or things may be found in unhealthy receptacles
or in any unhealthy or unsanitary condition, and condemn the same,
and order the person keeping the same to refrain from selling it.
All places where food of any kind, or beverage, or candy is
manufactured, prepared, stored or offered for sale shall be kept in
a clean and sanitary condition, and the persons in charge thereof
and all employees shall observe personal cleanliness while engaged
therein.
All toilet rooms in such places shall be entirely enclosed and
have outside ventilation and the doors thereof shall be equipped with
spring hinges or other self-closing devices, and shall be kept closed
except when used for passage.
Sleeping quarters or apartments shall not be maintained in rooms
where food of any kind is manufactured, stored, prepared or sold but
shall be separated therefrom by a wall reaching to the ceiling.
No article or thing intended for human consumption shall be
exposed in open doors or windows of any place on the street or sidewalks.
All floors, walls, showcases, ice boxes, refrigerators, tables,
meat blocks, and other fixtures and appliances, and cooking utensils
kept or used in any place where any beverage or food of any kind or
candy is manufactured, is stored, prepared or sold, must be kept clean
and in a sanitary condition.
Live chickens, or other fowls, shall not be kept in places where
food is manufactured, stored, prepared or sold or in rooms connected
therein, but may be brought into such places only for the purpose
of killing and dressing the same, and until killed, shall be kept
in portable coops which shall be removed before the close of the business
in the evening.
Hides of any kind shall not be stored or kept in any place or
room where food is manufactured, stored, prepared, or is for sale.
No dog or cat shall be kept or harbored in any place where food
is manufactured, stored, prepared or sold.
All places where any beverages or food is manufactured, stored,
prepared, or sold shall be kept free from flies and other insects
and vermin, and all windows and doors in such places shall be screened
and screen doors shall never be propped open while loading or unloading
goods, or permitted to remain open.
1.
All foods handled in bulk must be so covered as to exclude flies,
dust and dirt.
2.
All goods and candy displayed or kept for sale must be raised at
least two feet above the floor unless enclosed in tight sanitary cases.
3.
All articles of food kept in storage or for sale, must be kept free
from decayed matter.
Bread, candy and other bakery products shall not be mixed or
manufactured in any basement or other underground places. All utensils
used in the manufacture or preparation of food of any kind must be
kept clean.
No preservative, except such as are approved and allowed by
the laws and regulations of the United States Government and the State
of Oklahoma, shall be used in curing or preparing meat or in the manufacture
or preparation of any other food, and it shall be unlawful for any
person to sell or have in his possession with intent to sell, any
meat, or other food containing any preservatives not so approved.
It shall be unlawful for any person to carry any meals through
the public streets in trays or otherwise, unless the same are so covered
as to protect the food from contamination.
All peddlers licensed to sell meat, fish and vegetables in the
city shall have their wagons or other vehicles and places screened
to keep out flies.
Trucks for the delivery of bread and other bakery products must
be kept clean and free from dust and flies and no unwrapped bread
or bakery product shall be handled with bare hands or hauled in any
delivery truck.
No person shall bring into the city or within the city and sell
or offer for sale or have in his possession with intent to sell, any
blown, meager, diseased, unsound or unwholesome fish, fruit, vegetable
or other market produce or other food of any character.
No person shall bring into the city or within the city, sell
or offer for sale or have in his possession with intent to sell any
sick or diseased fowl or animal, the flesh or which is commonly used
for food.
No person shall display upon any sidewalk or in any stand, any
candy or food of any kind, unless the same is elevated at least two
feet above the sidewalk or floor and enclosed in glass cases or otherwise
adequately protected by containers or wrapping. All beverages offered
for sale in the public places and all containers and utensils to be
used in the serving of the same, shall be so protected as to exclude
flies, dust and dirt.
No person shall manufacture, prepare, sell, offer for sale,
or have in his possession with intent to sell, within the city, any
beverage under the name of lemonade, orangeade, or limeade unless
the same is made from pure fruit juice, or any candy or food or beverage
of any character which has been made of or which contains any harmful
or unwholesome ingredient or which is sold or offered for sale under
any false representations as to its true character of composition.
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to cause all places
where candy or food of any character or any beverage, is manufactured,
stored, prepared, handled or sold, within the city to be inspected
from time to time to satisfy himself that the provisions of all ordinances
and laws regulating thereto are being complied with.
Whenever the health inspector shall find any candy, beverage
or food of any character, that is for any reason unfit for consumption
by human beings, or the sale of which prohibited by ordinance or law,
he shall have the right and authority and it shall be his duty to
condemn the same and to order the same removed from the city or to
destroy it, or by the use of chemicals, render it unfit for sale.
The possession within the city of any candy, beverage, or food
of any character, defined as being, or declared to be impure or unwholesome,
by ordinance or law, or the sale or otherwise furnishing of which
is prohibited shall be and is hereby declared to be prima facie evidence
of an intent to sell or otherwise furnish the same to the city or
persons therein contrary to the provisions of the ordinances relating
thereto.
It shall be and is an offense for any person to store, manufacture,
sell or offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell
any candy, beverage or food of any character, not manufactured and
handled in accordance with the provisions of law and ordinance or
the rules promulgated by the Health Department.
The word "food" where used in this Chapter shall mean and include
all substances or things, either cooked or uncooked, whether solids
or liquids, commonly used as food for human beings, or used in the
preparation or cooking such food or for the seasoning or flavoring
of the same, including both eat and drink.
It shall be unlawful for any item of food or drink to be served
to any person upon the sidewalk or street within the fire limits of
the City of Weatherford, by the owners, operators, agents, servants
or employees of any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order
cafe, luncheonette, tavern, sandwich stand, soda fountain, or other
public eating or drinking establishment.
