[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Rahway 7-9-1984 by Ord. No. A-12-84 as Ch. 106 of the
1984 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any substance used or intended to be used as food
or drink for human consumption.
A certificate issued by the Rahway Department of Health or
any other program approved by the Health Officer of the City of Rahway.
Any fixed or mobile restaurant, permanent or temporary, coffee
shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette, grill, tearoom, sandwich
shop, soda fountain, tavern, bar, cocktail lounge, nightclub, roadside
stand, industrial feeding establishment, private, public or nonprofit
organization or institution serving food, catering, kitchen, commissary,
box lunch establishment, retail bakery, meat market, delicatessen,
grocery store, public food market or similar place in which food or
drink is prepared for retail sale or for service on the premises or
elsewhere; and any other retail eating or drinking establishment or
operation where food is served, handled or provided for the public,
with or without charge.
[Amended 4-9-2012 by Ord. No. O-13-12]
Any person charged with the responsibility of overseeing
the operations, including the supervision of employees engaged in
the preparing, processing and sale of food or drink intended for human
consumption, be it for immediate on- or off-premises consumption.
No establishment shall operate for more than
90 days without the supervisor(s) employed in that establishment applying
for a food handler's certificate.
No establishment shall operate for more than
six months without the supervisors employed in that establishment
completing a course of general instruction in bacteria characteristics
and growth, spread of food-borne diseases, methods of preventing food
poisoning, proper food-handling techniques, equipment and establishment
sanitation, dishwashing and sanitization and insect and rodent control.
No person to whom a food handler's certification
is issued or granted shall give, loan, transfer or permit the same
to be used by any other person, for any purpose whatsoever.
Within six months of enactment of this chapter,
no establishment shall be open for business in the preparing, processing
and sale of food or drink intended for human consumption without having
a supervisor on the premises who has a food handler's certificate.
A food handler's certificate may be granted
to a supervisor taking a comparable course of instruction in another
municipality approved by the Health Officer of the City of Rahway.
[Amended 7-9-1984 by Ord. No. A-12-84]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subjected to a penalty
of not less than $5 nor more than $500 for each offense.
