Any and every person or persons or corporation being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, stall or place where any meat, fish or vegetables or other substances designed or held for human food shall be 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; and every person having charge or being interested or engaged, whether as principal or agent, in the care or in respect to the custody or sale of any meat, fish, birds, fowl or vegetables or other substances designed for human food shall put and preserve the same 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.
The sale or exposure for sale of any drink, meat, fish or vegetable, designed for human food, that is decayed, putrified or has become chemically or physically changed so that it is unwholesome or unfit for food, or that has been exposed to the emanation or infection of any communicable disease, is hereby prohibited.
No food shall be offered for sale from shelves, counters or other containers which shall be less than eight (8) inches from the floor of the store in which the same are exposed for sale, or from the sidewalk or other surface on which said shelves, counters or other containers shall stand.
Bottles or other containers used for the delivery of food or drink shall not be stored or left standing in the streets or other public places of the Borough of Ridgefield.
All refrigerators or iceboxes maintained in any butcher shop or other mercantile establishment in the Borough of Ridgefield shall be open to the inspection of the Health Officer at any time when business is being carried on in said shop. No person shall allow any animal or vegetable matter which is foul or which is in a state of decay to remain in said refrigerator or icebox, nor shall said refrigerator be allowed to become foul or malodorous.
A. 
All hotels, inns, restaurants, tearooms, lunch counters, lunch wagons, stores or similar establishments within the Borough of Ridgefield where food is handled, sold or offered for sale shall be open at all times to inspection by this Board or its representatives. All kitchens, dining rooms, refrigerators, iceboxes or other parts of said establishments shall at all times be kept in a clean, sanitary condition, and in each of said establishments a toilet and washbowl shall be provided for the use of its employees and patrons. Said employees shall keep their persons and clothing in a clean, sanitary condition, and no person suffering from any contagious or communicable disease shall be employed in any of the above-mentioned establishments.
B. 
Any premises where food is held for sale, exchange or barter shall be equipped as follows:
(1) 
Adequate toilet facilities for each sex, including washbasin.
(2) 
Running water.
(3) 
Soap and individual towels.
(4) 
The room where these facilities are located shall have an opening with the outside atmosphere or other means of ventilation in conformance with the New Jersey State Plumbing Code.
A. 
No food intended for human consumption shall be kept, sold or offered for sale, displayed or transported, unless protected from flies, dust, dirt and, so far as the same is possible by use of all reasonable means, from all other foreign or injurious contamination; nor shall any food intended for human consumption be deposited or allowed to remain outside of a store at any time.
B. 
The clothing worn by all operators, employees, clerks and other persons while engaged in work in any of the places where food intended for sale or distribution is produced, manufactured, prepared, packed, stored, sold, distributed or transported, shall be in a clean condition at all times.
C. 
All food that is sold or offered for sale, intended for human consumption, that is not to be boiled, washed or peeled before being eaten, shall be handled by means of scoops, tongs, or otherwise protected from contact with human hands.
D. 
No room used for the preparation, storage or serving of food or drink shall be used as sleeping quarters.
E. 
All dishes and other utensils in which food or drink is served or which are used by customers, and all knives, forks, spoons, cups, glasses and similar articles used by customers in the consumption of food or drink, except single-service utensils, shall be thoroughly cleansed in hot, soapy water or a hot alkaline solution and later rinsed or immersed in clean water of a temperature of at least one hundred eighty degrees Fahrenheit (180° F.) before being used in serving another customer, or shall be cleaned and treated in some other manner which will yield equal results.
F. 
All utensils and implements used in cooking, preparing or serving food shall be cleansed in hot, soapy water or a hot alkaline solution and later rinsed in clean, scalding water, or shall be cleansed and treated in some other manner which will yield equal results.
G. 
All utensils and equipment coming in contact with food or drink during its preparation, handling, serving or consumption shall be clean and, after having been made ready for use, shall be stored in such manner as to be reasonably protected from flies, dust, dirt and other contamination. No such single-service utensils shall be used a second time.
H. 
An abundant supply of water for proper conduct of the business shall be readily available at all times. All water used for drinking, cooking and cleansing purposes shall be obtained from a public water supply or from a certified private water supply which is free from pollution which may render it injurious to health and not so situated, constructed or maintained that it may become so polluted; any water on or in connection with such premises which is accessible to customers for drinking shall be from such sources.
I. 
All toilet rooms and compartments shall be so located and constructed that flies and odors therefrom will be prevented from reaching any room in which food or drink is stored, prepared or served. Each such toilet room or compartment shall be ventilated by a window or duct opening to the outer air.
J. 
No dishwater, drainage from plumbing fixtures or other foul or putrescible waste liquids shall be permitted to accumulate on the surface of the ground or be disposed of in a manner that will pollute any public water supply or create a nuisance.
K. 
All garbage, decomposable animal or vegetable wastes, and also such refuse incident to the conduct of the food-vending business, which may attract flies, including used single-service utensils and paper, cellophane and similar wrappings which have come in contact with food, shall be kept in watertight, tightly covered receptacles until disposed of by some manner which will not create a nuisance.
L. 
The premises shall be kept free from accumulations which favor fly or mosquito breeding or the harboring of vermin.
M. 
All reasonable means shall be employed to keep rooms and compartments in which food or drink is prepared, stored or served free from rats, mice, roaches and other vermin.
Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations engaged in the operation of a restaurant, lunchroom, lunchwagon, diner, dining room, tavern, commissary, cafeteria, grill, bar, ice cream parlor, ice cream store, ice cream stand or any place where food or drink is served to the public, or to more than three (3) employees, shall secure annually a license from the Board of Health to carry on such business, the fee for which shall be in accord with the license fee ordinance.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 183, Fees.
Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations engaged as a vendor of food or drink in the Borough of Ridgefield, where such food or drink is sold for consumption at some place other than that at which sold, shall secure a food vendor's license from the Board of Health before engaging in such occupation. Said license shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year, and the annual fee for the issuance of the same shall be in accord with the license fee ordinance.[1] Each applicant shall also provide a valid tax certificate and proof of product liability insurance.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 183, Fees.
Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations engaged in the business of food packaging or food processing or food freezing shall secure a license from the Board of Health before engaging in such occupations. Said license shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year, and the annual fee for the issuance of the same shall be in accord with the license fee ordinance.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 183, Fees.
Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations engaged in the business of selling frozen foods shall secure a license from the Board of Health before engaging in such occupation. Said license shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year, and the annual fee for the issuance of the same shall be in accord with the license fee ordinance.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 183, Fees.