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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 323ORDINANCE NO. 323 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT REGULATING FOOD HANDLERS The City Council of the City of Beaumont, California, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Persons Affected. No person who knows he or she is infected with active communicable tuberculosis shall engage or serve or seek employment in any work, occupation or employment which requires or occasions the handling of any food or liquid or material intended for food or drink for human consumption* or the handling of any dishes or other articles used in the preparation or service of food or drink for human consumption, and no owner, manager or agent of such owner, or person in charge of any establishment or business shall retain in the employ thereof for the performance of such services for a longer period than three weeks, any person who does not hold and produce a health certificate as required by this ordinance, or for any period whatsoever, any person known or reasonably believed to be infected with active communicable tuberculosis. This requirement for a health certificate shall not apply to domestic or household work or to temporary, occasional or inter- mittent functions of bona fide religious, charitable or public service organizations, including fraternal organizations, veterans' organizations, established youth organi- zations, parent -teacher associations and civic or community organizations or groups the primary purpose of which is the betterment of the cultural, social or economic welfare and environment of the community. SECTION 2. Application for Certificate. Each person who is engaged or intends to engage in an occupation or employment for which a health certificate is required by Section 1 of this ordinance shall, before or within three weeks after he begins such work, file with the City Health Officer of the City of Beaumont, an application for a health certificate, in such form as the City Health Officer may require. Such application must be accompanied by a signed statement of a physician duly authorized to practice medicine in the State of California, or a report from an organization acceptable to the City Health Officer showing that the applicant is free of active communicable tuberculosis. Said statement or report shall show that within six months of the date of application the applicant has received either; (1) a normal chest X-ray which shows the applicant to be free of active communicable tuberculosis, or (2) an intradermal Mantoux test, the result of which was negative. The statement or report must show that in the Mantoux test no less than 5 tuberculin units, which is the equivalent of .0001 milligrams intermediate PPD, or one to two thousand solution of old tuberculin freshly prepared, have been used. Induration of six or more millimeters will be construed as a positive skin test. All positive skin test reactors to the Mantoux test will be required to obtain a chest X-ray. Said statement or report shall bear a date not more than six months before the date of application. SECTION 3. Issuance of Certificate. If the Health Officer determines from an examination of the statement or report accompanying such application, or from such other evidence as he may require, that the applicant for a health certi- ficate is free from active communicable tuberculosis, he shall immediately issue a health certificate to the applicant which shall state such fact, and which shall bear the name of the applicant and the date of issuance. Such health certificate shall expire one year after the date it was issued. Any person whose health in the opinion of the City Health Officer requires further investigation may be issued a temporary health certificate at the discretion of the City Health Officer for a period up to three months during which time such investigation shall be carried out to determine the presence of active communicable tuberculosis. SECTION 4. Duplicate Certificate. The City Health Officer for good cause may issue duplicate health certificates. SECTION 5. Substitute Certificate. A valid and effective certificate of health, indicating that the applicant is free from active oommunicable tuberculosis, issued by any regularly constituted public health department and bearing a date of issuance, shall be accepted, in lieu of the health certificate issued by the City Health Officer, during its period of validity, not to exceed one year from the date of its issuance. SECTION 6. Revocation of Certificate. The City Health Officer may revoke any health certificate, whether issued by himself or other authority, and require its surrender, whenever he determines that the holder thereof is infected with active communicable tuberculosis. Section 7. Display of Certificate. Each person required to have a health certificate shall immediately submit such certificate to the employer of such person. It shall be the duty of every such employer to keep on continuous display at the place of employment the health certificates of all such persons employed or engaged there, and to display therewith a current list of all such persons there engaged or employed, for comparison with the displayed certificates. Upon termination of employment each unex- pired certificate shall be returned to the holder. SECTION 8. Penalties. Any vitiation of this ordinance is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprison- ment in the city jail for not more than xix (6) months, or by both such fines and imprisonment. SECTION 9. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after its adoption, but Section 8 shall not be operative until 3 months after the date of adoption. ADOPTED THIS 12thDAY OF September , 1960. ATTEST: City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA) ) SS COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE) I, Bernice Conine, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 323 was first introduced and read in full at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 29th day of August, 1960, and was duly adopted at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 12th day of September, 1960.: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Councilmen McClellan, Leeb, Moore and Allen None Councilman Houston WITNESS my hand and seal this 12th day of September, 1960. City Clerk