Blythe Municipal Code Ch. 8.04 Food Handlers

A. No person who knows he or she is infected with active communicable tuberculosis shall engage, serve or seek employment in any work, occupation or employment which requires or occasions the handling of any food, 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.

B. No owner or manager, or the 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 chapter, or, for any period whatsoever, any person known or reasonably believed to be infected with active communicable tuberculosis.

C. The requirement for a health certificate shall not apply to domestic or household work, or to temporary, occasional or intermittent functions of bona fide religious, charitable or public service organizations, including fraternal organizations, veterans' organizations, established youth organizations, 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.

(Ord. 272 § 1, 1960)

A. Each person who is engaged or intends to engage in an occupation or employment for which a health certificate is required by Section 8.04.010, before or within three weeks after he begins such work, shall file, with the county health officer of the county of Riverside, an application for a health certificate, in such form as the county health officer may require.

B. Such application must be accompanied by a signed statement of a physician duly authorized to practice in the state, or a report from an organization acceptable to the county health officer, showing that the applicant is free of active communicable tuberculosis.

C. 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 results of which was negative.

D. The statement or report must show that in the Mantoux test no less than five 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.

E. All positive skin test reactors to the Mantoux test will be required to obtain a chest X-ray.

F. The statement or report shall bear a date not more than six months before the date of application.

(Ord. 272 § 2, 1960)

A. If the health officer determines from an examination of the statement or report accompanying the application provided for in Section 8.04.020, or from such other evidence as he may require, that an applicant for a health certificate 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.

B. Any person whose health, in the opinion of the county health officer, requires further investigation may be issued a temporary health certificate, at the discretion of the county 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.

(Ord. 272 § 3, 1960)

Each person required by this chapter 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 certificate 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 unexpired certificate shall be returned to the holder.

(Ord. 272 § 7, 1960)

The county health officer, for good cause, may issue duplicate health certificates.

(Ord. 272 § 4, 1960)

A valid and effective certificate of health, indicating that the applicant is free from active communicable 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 county health officer during its period of validity, not to exceed one year from the date of its issuance.

(Ord. 272 § 5, 1960)

The county 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.

(Ord. 272 § 6, 1960)

Any violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor punishable as provided in Chapter 1.24.

(Ord. 272 § 8, 1960)