[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Lansdowne 12-19-2001 by Ord. No. 1172. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272]
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The Health Officer of the Borough of Lansdowne shall have the power,
and it shall be his/her duty, to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, the regulations of the Pennsylvania State Department
of Health, and the ordinances of the Borough of Lansdowne relating
to health work, and to make and enforce such additional rules and
regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or
contagious diseases, and by abating and removing all nuisances which
he/she shall deem prejudicial to the public health, to mark infected
houses or places and make other rules and regulations as he/she shall
deem necessary for the preservation of the public health. Such rules
and regulations, when approved by the Borough Council, and when advertised
in the same manner as other ordinances, shall have the force of ordinances
of the Borough.
As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly indicates a
different meaning:
The condition of a food:
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If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance in
a quantity which is likely to render it injurious to health;
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If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance for
which no safe tolerance has been established by regulation or in excess
of such tolerance if one has been established;
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If it consists, in whole or in part, of any filthy, putrid or decomposed
substance or if it is otherwise unfit for human consumption;
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If it has been processed, prepared, packed or held under unsanitary
conditions whereby it is likely to have become contaminated or whereby
it is likely to have been rendered injurious to health;
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If it is, in whole or in part, the product of a diseased animal or
plant or an animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter; or
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APPROVED
ASSISTANT HEALTH OFFICER
CUSTARD MIX AND CUSTARD-FILLED
EMPLOYEE
EQUIPMENT
FOOD
FOOD-CONTACT SURFACES
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
FOOD VENDING VEHICLE
GARBAGE
HEALTH OFFICER
ITINERANT PUBLIC EATING AND DRINKING PLACE
LICENSE
LICENSEE
LICENSER
NUISANCE
ODOR EMISSIONS
OWNER
PERISHABLE FOOD
PERSON
POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOOD OR DRINK
PROPRIETOR
PUBLIC EATING AND DRINKING PLACE
REFUSE
SANITIZE
SHELLFISH
SINGLE-SERVICE ARTICLES
SOURCE
UTENSILS
WASTE
WATER-SUPPLY
If its container is composed in whole or in part of any poisonous
or deleterious substance which is likely to render the contents injurious
to health.
Accepted as satisfactory to the Health Officer.
Duly authorized and appointed representative of the Health
Officer of Lansdowne Borough.
Any product consisting principally of flour, sugar, eggs
and/or milk, with or without cornstarch, heated, cooled and applied
to pastry without subsequent heating, and to filled pastry such as
cream puffs or eclairs which may be heated subsequent to filling.
Any person who handles food or drink during the preparation
or serving of food or drink, comes in contact with any eating or cooking
utensils or who is employed in a room or building in which food or
drink is prepared or served. This shall include an individual proprietor
or any member of the proprietor's family who handles food or
drink.
All stoves, ranges, hoods, meat blocks, tables, counters,
refrigerators, sinks, dish-washing machines, steam tables and similar
items, other than utensils, used in the operation of a public eating
and drinking place or a food establishment.
Any raw, cooked or processed edible substance, beverage or
ingredient intended in whole or in part for human consumption.
Surfaces of equipment and utensils which normally come in
contact with food, directly or indirectly.
Any place where food or beverage intended for human consumption
is kept, stored, manufactured, prepared, dressed, handled, sold or
offered for sale, with or without charge, either at wholesale or retail
and not consumed on the premises; provided, however, that the term
"food establishment" shall not include a public eating and drinking
place.
A conveyance that transports, for the purpose of distribution
or sale to the public, prepared foods or food deemed by the Health
Officer to be perishable or otherwise covered by this chapter. Such
conveyance may be a truck, trailer, cart, bicycle or other vehicle,
container or similar type of equipment.
All wastes, except sewage and body waste, including animal
and offal.
The Health Officer of Lansdowne Borough or his/her authorized
representative(s).
A place or establishment operating for a temporary period
not to exceed 14 days in connection with a fair, carnival, circus,
public exhibition, public event or similar gathering.
The permission granted to a licensee to conduct a public
eating and drinking place, food establishment or itinerant public
eating and drinking place.
A holder of a license.
The Health Officer of Lansdowne Borough.
A public nuisance affecting health.
Fugitive or malodorous air contaminants emitted into the
outdoor atmosphere from any source in such a manner that the contaminants
are detectable outside the property of the person on whose land the
source is being operated.
The owner or owners of any building or structure, whether
individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership.
Any food of such type or in such condition as may spoil.
Any individual, firm, corporation, association or partnership,
and includes the plural as well as the singular, and the female as
well as the male.
Any perishable food or drink which consists, in whole or
in part, of milk or milk products, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, shellfish
or other ingredients which are capable of supporting growth of infectious
or toxigenic microorganisms or life forms.
Any person, partnership, association or corporation conducting
or operating within the limits of the Borough a public eating and
drinking place or a food establishment or an itinerant public eating
and drinking place.
Restaurant; coffee shop; cafeteria short-order cafe; snack
bar or any other place where food, drinks or refreshments are served,
sold or prepared and sold or given away to be consumed on the premises;
provided, however, that this definition shall not be interpreted to
include boardinghouses or private homes.
All nonputrescible wastes generally regarded as rubbish,
trash, junk and similar debris which have been rejected by the owner
or possessor thereof as useless or worthless.
Effective bactericidal treatment of clean surfaces of equipment
and utensils by a process which has been approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Health as being effective in destroying microorganisms,
including pathogens.
Includes oysters, clams, scallops or mussels, fresh and frozen;
any shrimp, crab or lobster, fresh., frozen or cooked but not packed
in a sealed container; and any other mollusks, fresh or frozen, intended
for human consumption.
Cups, containers, lids or closures, plates, knives, forks,
spoons, stirrers, paddles, straws, placemats, napkins, doilies, wrapping
materials and all similar articles which are constructed wholly or
in part from paper, paperboard, molded pulp, foil, wood, plastic,
synthetic or other readily destructible material, and which are intended
by the manufacturers and generally recognized by the public for a
one-time use only, and then to be discarded.
Any well, spring, cistern infiltration gallery, steam, reservoir,
pond or lake from which water is taken, by any means, either intermittently
or continuously for use by the public.
Any kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, containers
or other equipment with which food or drink comes in contact during
storage, preparation or serving.
Any substance that contains any of the waste products or
excrements or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals,
and any noxious or deleterious substance being harmful or inimical
to the public health, or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use
of water for domestic water supply or for recreation.
A source or sources of water, as well as any and all water
treatment, storage, transmission and distribution facilities.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a public eating and
drinking place or a food establishment or an itinerant public eating
and drinking place or a food vending vehicle in the Borough who does
not possess a license from the Health Officer of Lansdowne Borough.
The fee for such a license shall be fixed by resolution of the Borough
Council and may be amended from time to time. Any person who is late
in applying and paying for such a license shall be assessed a late
fee which shall be fixed by resolution of the Borough Council and
may be amended from time to time. Licenses shall be granted for a
period of one calendar year or portion thereof. Such license shall
be conspicuously displayed at all times in the place thereby licensed
and shall not be transferable. Application for renewal of a license
shall be made at lest 10 days before the expiration of the existing
license. Licenses may be suspended or revoked for violations by the
holder thereof of the provisions of this chapter. No license shall
be suspended or revoked without the licensee being given a hearing
before the Board of Health.
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No person shall operate a public eating and drinking place or a food
establishment or an itinerant public eating and drinking place or
a food vending vehicle without first obtaining a license from the
Health Officer of Lansdowne Borough or obtaining a license fee exemption
and also paying an inspection fee for the calendar year or portion
thereof to defray the administrative costs of inspections, consultation
and servicing of the food sanitation program of Lansdowne Borough
with the provisions of this chapter. Fees required under this section
shall be fixed by resolution of the Borough Council.
When a public eating and drinking place or a food establishment
is hereafter constructed or extensively remodeled or when an existing
structure is converted for use as a public eating and drinking place
or a food establishment, properly prepared plans and specifications
for such construction, remodeling or alteration, showing layout, arrangement
and construction materials of work areas and the location, size and
type of fixed equipment and facilities, shall be submitted in duplicate
to the Health Officer for approval before such work is begun. No building
permit shall be issued by the Building Inspector until such approval
has been given by the Health Officer.
[Amended 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272]
Construction of food establishments, public eating and drinking places and itinerant public eating and drinking places shall conform with all rules and regulations issued by the Department of Agriculture as set forth in Chapter 192 of this Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 200-6 through 200-13 were
repealed 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272.
[Amended 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272]
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No person shall operate or maintain any public eating and drinking
place or any food establishment or any itinerant public eating and
drinking place otherwise than in a clean and sanitary condition and
so as to conform at all times to the requirements of this chapter.
The person in charge of and every food handler employed in any public
eating and drinking place or any food establishment or any itinerant
public eating and drinking place shall observe and comply with the
provisions of this chapter relating to the operation and maintenance
of such public eating and drinking places and/or food establishments
and/or itinerant public eating and drinking place.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 200-15 through 200-26
were repealed 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272.
The Health Officer and his official designee in the performance
of any duty imposed by this chapter shall have full access to any
place, container or conveyance used in the production, preparation,
manufacture, packaging, storage, transportation, handling, distribution
or sale of any food. He shall be entitled to make an examination,
open any package or container and take therefrom a sample for analysis
of any food manufactured, sold, exposed for sale or found to be in
possession of the proprietor or licensee in violation of any provisions
of this chapter.
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Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter
or the rules and regulations approved and hereinafter adopted shall,
upon summary conviction before any Magisterial District Judge, pay
a fine not exceeding $1,000 and costs of prosecution; and in default
of one payment of the fine and costs, the violator may be sentenced
to the county jail for a term of not more than 30 days. Whenever such
person shall have been officially notified by the Health Officer or
by the service of a summons in a prosecution or in any other official
manner that he is committing a violation of this chapter or the rules
and regulations approved and hereinafter adopted, each day that he
shall continue such violation after such notification shall constitute
a separate offense punishable by a like fine or penalty. Such fines
or penalties shall be collected as like fines or penalties are now
by law collected.
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This chapter is enforceable by the Health Officer, by his/her appointed
deputy, the Code Enforcement Officer and/or by the Lansdowne Police
Department.
Whenever the proprietor or licensee of a public eating and drinking
place or food establishment or itinerant public eating and drinking
place shall fail to keep his public eating and drinking place or food
establishment or itinerant public eating and drinking place in a sanitary
condition or whenever food or drink or the sale of the same is likely
to cause or transmit disease, the Health Officer, upon proper notification,
shall order such public eating and drinking place or food, establishment
or itinerant public eating and drinking place closed until it shall
have been put in a sanitary condition or until the food or drink and
the sale of the same shall no longer be likely to cause any illness
or transmit disease. The proprietor or licensee of the public eating
and drinking place or food establishment or itinerant public eating
and drinking place, when so ordered, shall not conduct further operations
until permission has been granted by the Health Officer.
[Amended 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272]
Any variations and/or exceptions to any part of this chapter
due to the nature of and/or circumstances regarding any itinerant
public eating and drinking place must be approved, in writing, by
the Department of Agriculture.
[Amended 5-16-2012 by Ord. No. 1272]
The Department of Agriculture shall have the power to grant variances regarding particular parts of this chapter as they may apply to a particular property. The rules and regulations governing variances set forth by the Department of Agriculture regarding food safety are adopted as set forth in Chapter 192 of this Code.
