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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 ATT EST: