HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Regulating Restaurants, Repealing Ordinance 567 TEMPORARY ORD. NO. 20 PERMANENT ORD. NO. 770
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING RESTAURANT, EMPLOYEE, UTENSILS, HEALTH
OFFICER, AND PERSON: REQUIRING LICENSES FOR THE OPERATION OF A
RESTAURANT AND DESIGNATING CONDITIONS PREREQUISITE TO OBTAINING
SAME: REQUIRING PAYMENT OF FEES FOR LICENSE: PROHIBITING THE
SALE OF ADULTERATED, UNWHOLESOME OR MISBRANDED FOOD OR DRINK,
IREGULATING THE INSPECTION AND PLACARDING OF SUCH ESTABLISHMENTE,
PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION OF LICENSE, NOTIFICATION IN EVENT OF
ENFECTION OR DISEASE, TH-E FIXINGOF PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THERE F
A.ND REPEALING ORDINANCE NUMBER 567 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OFAMES, IOWA:
Section 1. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used shall
for the purpose of this ordinance have the meanings ascribed to them in this
ection:
Section 1. 1. Restaurant. The term "restaurant" shall mean and include
any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette, tavern,
sandwich stand, drugstore and soda fountain serving food, and all other eating or
rinking establishments, as well as kitchens or other places in which foods or
Irinks are prepared for sale elsewhere.
Section 1. 2. Employee. The term "employee" shall mean any person who
.1andles food or drink during the preparation or serving, or who cons in contact
with any eating or cooking utensils, or who is employed at any time in a room in
which food or drink is prepared or served.
Section 1. 3. Utensils. The term "utensils" shall include any kitchenware,
tableware, cutlery, utensils, containers, or other equipment which food or drink
ornes in contact during storage, preparation or serving.
Section 1. 4. Health Officer. The term "health officer" shall mean the city
3anitaxian of Ames, Iowa, or his authorized representative.
Section 1. 5. Person. The word "perscull shall mean any person,, firm,
-orporation or association.
Section 1. 6. Food. The word "food" shall mean any article used by man
r food, drink, confectionery, or condiment, or which enters into the same,
hether simple, blended, mixed, orcompound.
Section 1. 7. Food Establishment. The term "food establishment" shall
nclude any building, room, basement, or other place, used as a bakery, c-on-
ectionery, cannery, packing-house, slaughter-house, cheese factory, restaurant
)r kitchen, retail grocery, meat market, or other place in which food is kept,
)roduced, prepared, or distributed for commercial purposes.
Section 2. Permit Required. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
restaurant in the city of Ames who does not possess a valid permit from the
-ity clerk which permit shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the permittee's
)lace of business at all times.
Section 3. Application for Permit. Every personbefore opening or operatiag
restaurant shall make application for a restaurant permit to the health officer
n forms furnished by the city and pay the annual permit fee as hereinafter
I)rovided.
Section 4. Permit Fee. The applicant shall accompany his application
With a receipt from the city clerk showing payment of the annual permit fee of
ive dollars ($5. 00). All permits shall expire on December 3 1 st of the year of
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issue. Permits may be renewed each year upon the payment of the annual permit
fee of five dollar s ($5. 00).
Section 5. Issuance of Permit. The health officer upon receipt of an
application for a restaurant permit shall within five (5) days thereafter inspect
the applicants place of business, utensils and equipment and if found to conform
with the provisions of this ordinance and the applicant has been issued an
occupancy permit by the building official, he shall so advise the city clerk who
shall issue to the applicant a restaurant permit and retain a record thereof in
his office.
Section 6. Suspension or Revocation of Permit. Such permit may be
Itemporarily suspended by the health officer upon the violation by the permit
I holder of any of the terms of this ordinance, or the city council may after notice
to the permit holder and hearing before V-ie council, revoke such permit for
violations of the provisions of this ordinance.
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Section 7. Inspection. The health officer or his authorized representative
shall regularly inspect every restaurant in the city of Ames for the purpose of
detecting violations hereof and shall make a detailed record of each such
!� inspection. a summary of such inspections shall be filed with the city
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at the end of each fiscal year.
I� Section n. Condition of Food and Drink Served. All food and drink shall
be clean, wholesome, free from spoilage, and so prepared and served as to be j
safe for human consumption. Samples of food and drink may be taken and examined
by the health officer as often as he deems necessary for the detection of
unwholesome or tainted food or drink.
Section 9. Floors, Walls, and Ceilings. The walls and ceilings of all
rooms in which food or drink is stored, prepared, or served or in which utensils
are washed, shall have a smooth, washable surface, shall be kept clean and in i
good repair. Floors shall have a smooth surface and shall be of such construction
as to be easily cleaned.
Section 10. Lighting and Ventilation. All rooms in which food or drink is
stored or prepared or in which utensils are washed shall be well lighted and
ventilated.
Section 11. Toilet and Lavatory Facilities. Every restaurant where food
is served to customers for consumption on the premises shall be provided with
adequate and conveniently located toilet and lavatory facilities for employees
conforming to the ordinances of the city of -Ames and the statutes of the State of
Iowa. Hand-washing facilities shall be provided including hot and cold running
I water, soap, and approved individual sanitary towels. Hand--washing signs shall
lbe posted in every toilet room used by employees. In restaurants hereafter con-
structed toilet rooms shall not open directly into any room in which food, drink o
utensils are handled or stored. The doors of all toilets rooms shall be self
closing„
Section 12. Water Supply. Adequate running water under pressure shall
be easily accessible to all rooms in which food is prepared or utensils are
washed and such water supply shall be of a safe sanitary quality.
Section 13. Doors and Windows. P111 openings into the outer air shall be
effectively screened and doors shall be self Elosing, unless other effective means
are provided to prevent entrance of flies.
Section 14. Disease Control. No person who is affected with any disease
in a communicable form or is a carrier of such disease shall work in any
restaurant, and no restaurant permittee shall employ any such person suspected
of being affected with a disease incommunicable form or being a carrier of such
disease.
Section 15. Notification of Disease. Notice shall be sent to the health
officer immediately by the restaurant manager or by the employee concerned
if he or any employee contracts any infectious, contagious, or communicable
disease, or has a fever, a skin eruption, a cough lasting more than three weeks,
ova ny other suspicious symptom. It shall be the duty of any such employee to
notify the restaurant manager immediately when any of said conditions obtain,
and if neither the manager nor the employee concerned notifies the health officer
immediately when any of said conditions obtain, they shall be held jointly and
severally to have violated this section. A placard containing this section shall be
! posted in all restaurant toilet rooms.
Section 16. Procedure when Infection Suspected. When suspicion arises
as to the possibility of transmission of infection from any restaurant employee,
the health officer is authorized to require any or all of the following measures:
1. The immediate exclusion of the employee from all restaurants as an
employee;
Z. The immediate closing of the restaurant concerned until no further
danger of disease outbreak exists, in the opinion of the health officer;
3. Adequate medical examination of the employee and of his associates,
with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated.
Section 17. Storage and Handling of Food, Utensils and Equipment.
Utensils, equipment and all food and drink shall be stored in a clean, dry place,
protected from insects, dust or other contamination. Single--service utensils
shall be purchased only in sanitary containers, and shall be stored in a clean,
dry place until used.
Section 18. Disposal of Wastes. All wastes shall be promptly and
properly disposed of. Garbage shall be kept in water tight containers with tight
fitli ig lids which shall be in place at all times except when garbage is being
deposited in or emptied out ofthe container. Garbage cans shall be thoroughly
cleaned by flushing with water after each emptying. Papers and trash shall not
be allowed to accumulate on the premises. Overflow water from refrigeration
boxes or receptacles shall be retained in suitable receptacles until properly
disposed of.
Section 19. Refrigeration. All readily perishable food and drink shall be
kept in refrigerators or refrigeration rooms at temperatures at or below fifty
(50) degrees F. excerpt when being prepared or served.
Section 20. Animals or Fowls. No animals or fowls shall be kept or allowed
in any rooms in which food or drink is stored, prepared or served.
Section 21. Cleanliness of Employees. All employees shall wear clean
garments and shall keep their hands clean at all times while engaged in handling
food, drink, utensils or equipment. Employees shall not use tobacco in any
form in rooms where food is being prepared.
Section 22. Cleaning of Utensils and Equipment. All equipment, includin
display cases or window, counters, shelves, tables, refrigerators, stoves,
hoods, and sinks shall be kept clean and free fromdust, dirt, insects, and
other contaminating material. Single-service containers shall be used only
once. All multi-use eating and drinking utensils shall be thoroughly cleaned
and effectively subjected to approved bactericidal process after each usage,
and all multi-use utensils used in the preparation, cooking or serving of food
or drink shall be thoroughly cleaned and subjected to an approved bactericidal
process immediately following each days operation. The following are approved
bactericidal processes:
(1) Immersion for at least two minutes in clean hot water at a temperature
of at least 1700 F. or for 1/2 minute in boiling water.
(2) Immersion for at least two minutes in a lukewarm chlorine rinse
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containing at least 50 ppm of available chlorine if hyphchlorites are used,
or a concentration of equal bactericidal strength if other approved sanitizers are
used.
(3) Exposure in a steam cabinet to at least 1700 F. for at least 15 minutes,
or to at least 2000 F. for at least 5 minutes.
(4) Exposure in an oven or hot-air sterilizer to hot air at a temperature
of at least 1800 F. for at least 20 minutes.
(5) Equipment that is too large to immerse or expose in a steam cabinet
or hot air oven shall be treated with live steam from a hose, by boiling water
rinse, or by spraying or swabbing with chlorine solution or other approved
sanitizers.
Section 23. Use of Poisonou=s Materials. No article, polish or other
substance containing any cyanide preparation or other poisonous material shall
be used for the cleaning or polishing of utensils.
Section 24. Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this
ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100. 00) or imprisoned in the city or
county jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days.
Section 25. Repeal. Ordinance No. 567 and all other ordinances or parts
of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 26. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and publication as provided by law.
Passed this 14th day of December, 1954.
J. Prather, City Clerk J. P. Lawlor, Mayor
Moved by Griffith and seconded by Smith that Temporary Ordinance No. 20 be
passed on its first reading.
Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Moved by Smith and seconded by Bliss that the rules governing the passage of
ordinances be suspended, the second and third readings omitted and Temporary
Ordinance No. 20 be placed on its final passage.
Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Moved by Bolton and seconded by De Hart that Ordinance No. 20, temporary No.,
do now pass.
Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, De Hart, Bolton and Bliss
Voting Nay: None
Absent: None
Mayor Lawlor declared Temporary Ordinance No. 20 duly passed.
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f h City of Ames Iowa do hereby certify
I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk o the y y y `
that Ordinance No. 77D was duly and properly adopted by the City Council
at a meeting on the 14th day of December, 1954 and published by codifying k
on the r day of 19
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J. W. Prather, City Clerk
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