Article I — In General

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall, when used in this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Food" shall mean any substance eaten or drunk for nourishment or refreshment of the body, whether such food is in storage, in process or preparation or ready to serve. Food includes all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, whether simple or compound, and all substances and ingredients used in the preparation thereof.

"Food establishment" shall mean and include any public or private market, shop, store, delicatessen, candy factory, tortilleria or other place, not a public eating or drinking establishment in or about which any food, foodstuffs or provisions are kept, held, sold, prepared, compounded or offered for sale for human consumption. Such establishments will specifically include but shall not be restricted to: Grocery stores and warehouses; candy and confectioners' plants or stores; bakeries; bottling works; food and condiment packing houses; fruit and vegetable stands; markets or other premises where meat or meat food products, sausage, fish, dressed poultry, rabbit or game are kept, stored, handled, manufactured or offered for sale; ice stations; all food processing or cannery plants of any type.

"Operator" shall mean any person, whether the owner or not, engaged in managing or supervising the dispensing of or the preparation of food in a public eating place.

"Public eating place" shall mean and include every restaurant, lunchroom, tea room, soda fountain, buffet, grill room, lunch counter, sandwich stand, dining room, coffee shop, fountain, public boardinghouse, hotel, club beer parlor, cocktail lounge and every other place where food or drink are prepared or dispensed or both, and every public place where food or drinks are prepared to be consumed by the public on the premises, and all kitchens, commissaries and other rooms appurtenant thereto, or connected therewith. All places where sandwishes, lunches, box lunches and unpackaged foods are prepared or dispensed, or both, for sale or gift to the public shall also be classified as public eating places.

"Restaurant" means any coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order cafe, luncheonette, tavern, bar, sandwich stand, soda fountain, public school lunchroom or cafeteria, labor and construction camp kitchens and dining rooms, public boarding house, club and any other eating or drinking establishment which sells or offers for sale food to the public, as well as kitchens, box lunch establishment, catering services, barbecue pits in which food or drink is prepared on the premises for sale or

distribution elsewhere. Restaurant shall also include all cafeterias or restaurants serving commercial establishments as part of the organization and serving the public, whether as employees or visitors.

(Ord. No. 449, Art. I, §1; 450, §1.)

The health officer, his assistant or his duly authorized representative, are hereby authorized and directed to seize and destroy or denaturize any tainted, diseased, decayed, partially decayed or unwholesome meat, fish, shell fish, fowl, fruits, vegetables or other unwholesome food found within the city.

(Ord. No. 450, Art. II, §12.)

It shall be unlawful for any person or an agent or employee of any person to sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in his possession for sale or distribution in the city the flesh of any cattle, horse, sheep, lamb, swine or goat unless the same bears on each primal part thereof the "inspected and passed" stamp of an establishment operating under federal inspection, state inspection or approved municipal inspection.

(Ord. No. 450, Art. II, §13.)

It shall be unlawful for any person or an agent or employee of any person to sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in his possession for sale or distribution in the city any sausage or other meat product unless the same has been manufactured or prepared in accordance with the laws of the state.

(Ord. No. 450, Art. II, §14.)

The health officer is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to insure the proper sanitation in all restaurants and food establishments and for the proper and orderly administration of this chapter.

(Ord. No. 450, Art. II, §16.)