O 096AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING CHEST X-RAYS OF FOOD HANDLERS IN
THE CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE AS AN EVIDENCE OF~EEDOM FROM
ACTIVE PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, AND PR0~IDING ~P~tALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED by. the Council of the City of Arroyo
Grande, as follows:
Section 1. For the purposes of this ordinance a food
handler is defined as any person who processes, prepares, mixes'~
serves, handles or otherwise comes in physical contact with any
food or beverage that is not packed in a sealed container and
that is not subsequently to be pasteurized or heat~ sterilized
before being handled or consumed by human beings other than
members or non-paying guests of said person's own household.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any .person to work
as a food handler, and/or for the prol~rietor or manager Sf I~any
.public eating place or other food establishment to cause or permit
any person to work as a food handler in or on the premises under
his supervision or control, unless aAid food handler~has within
the most recent two years or less had a chest X-ray taken and
read by, or under the supervision of, a physician and surgeon
licensed bO practice in the State of CalifornSa, indicating the
absence of any evidence of active pulmonary tuberculosis.
Section 3. The proprietor or manager of every public
eating place or other food esta~lishment shall maintain a current
and up-tQ~te file of the names and addresses of all food handlers
working in said place or~'~establish~ent, together with a certificate
of a physician a4d surgeSn licensed to practice in the State of
California, giving the date and reading or interpretation-of the
most recent X-ray taken of each of said food handlers.
Section 4. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty. Sf a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shell be punished by a fine of not more than
five hundred dollars ($ 500.00) or by imprisonment for not more
than six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 5. This ordinance, together with the ayes and
no~s~ shall be published at least once within 15 days of its
passage in the Herald-Recorder, a newspaper printed, published
and circulated in the said City and shall take effect and be
in force October 1, 1949.
ON motion of Councilman~
and seconded by Couhcilman~ and on the
following roll call vote:
NOES:
ABSENT:
the foregoing OrdinanCe was adopted this ,~
1949 ·
day of
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