Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 8.20 Bakeries

A "bakery" means any room or place where bread, crackers, cakes, pies, breadstuffs, of any kind or any product of flour or meal are baked or cooked or mixed or prepared for baking or cooking or for sale for food; provided, however, that the term "bakery" shall not be deemed to include restaurants, hotels, cafes, boarding houses or other public eating places.

(Prior code § 5540)

No person shall establish any bakery in any room or place, the floor of which is more than four feet (4') below the level of the adjacent street, walk or ground, provided this Section shall not apply to any clean, well-drained and sanitary room used exclusively for storage of flour, meal or other articles necessary in the preparation, baking or cooking of bread, crackers or cake, pies, breadstuffs of any kind, or any other products of flour or meal.

(Prior code § 5540.1)

Every building or room used for a bakery shall be well-drained and all plumbing shall conform to the ordinances regulating plumbing, and all rules and regulations that may be adopted by the Health Department. No water closet, urinal, earthen closet or privy shall be within or communicated with any room where bread or other breadstuffs or products of meal or flour are cooked, baked or mixed or prepared for cooking or baking.

(Prior code § 5540.2)

Every building or room used for a bakery shall be of good workmanship; the floors, walls and ceiling shall be clean and dry and so constructed as to exclude rats, mice, insects and all other vermin. Ample toilet facilities shall be provided in all bakeries, separate and apart from any utensils used in the preparation of bakery products, so as to enable employees therein or thereof to keep their persons clean.

(Prior code § 5540.3)

The floors in all bakeries must be smooth and have an impregnable surface and be constructed of wood, cement or tile laid in cement. The rooms shall be not less than eight feet (8') in height; all ceilings and sidewalls shall be tight and well constructed and whitewashed or painted at intervals not longer than twelve (12) months and oftener, if for sanitary reasons the Health Department deems it necessary.

(Prior code § 5540.4)

All furnishings, utensils, and receptacles used in or about the preparation of bakery products shall be kept clean.

(Prior code § 5540.5)

Dressing rooms for employees or other persons shall be separated from the bakery or storage rooms of a bakery by walls or other substantial partitions at least six feet (6') in height.

(Prior code § 5540.6)

All raw materials capable of being used in the preparation of bakery products and all bakery products shall be thoroughly enclosed, covered or protected from dust and dirt at all times while said bakery is being swept, dusted, or cleaned.

(Prior code § 5540.7)

Every person employed in any bakery shall, while engaged in or about such work, wear shoes or slippers and an external suit of coarse linen or other washable material, and such slippers, shoes and garments shall at all times be kept clean and in a sanitary condition.

(Prior code § 5540.8)

No person shall use for the purpose of a dwelling or sleep in any bakery or storage room or any room having a door opening or leading into any such bakery or store room connected or used in connection with or belonging to any bakery.

(Prior code § 5540.9)

No person shall dress or undress or leave or store any clothing in any bakery or store room connected therewith.

(Prior code § 5540.10)

No person shall smoke or chew tobacco or use the same in any form or manner in any bakery or store room connected therewith.

(Prior code § 5540.11)

No person affected with pulmonary tuberculosis, venereal disease or other communicable disease shall work or be employed in any bakery, and no person shall employ any such person to work or be employed in any bakery.

(Prior code § 5540.12)

No person shall keep any animal or fowl in any bakery or store room connected therewith, and no person shall conduct any bakery in any building where any animal or fowl is kept.

(Prior code § 5540.13)

No person shall receive for sale, sell, offer for sale or keep for sale, any bread without having each loaf of such bread entirely covered with oiled, grease-proof parchment or paraffin paper, or carry, transport or convey any bread or bakery products upon or along any street, alley, thoroughfare or open space unless the same is thoroughly enclosed or covered and protected from dust, dirt, flies or other insects, or deliver or leave any bread or bakery products on any porch, step, open or exposed place unless such article so delivered or left is thoroughly enclosed, covered and protected; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the display of bread under a showcase or in a window properly protected from flies, where the same is manufactured and sold on the same premises.

(Prior code § 5540.14)

No person shall keep any fruit, vegetable or syrup in any tin vessel in any bakery or store room connected therewith, unless such vessel is so sealed or fastened as to prevent the air from entering same.

(Prior code § 5540.15)

No person shall refuse to permit or allow the Health Officer or any authorized inspector to enter or inspect or examine any portion of any bakery or other place where bakery products are cooked, kept, sold, or offered for sale. No person shall interfere with or hinder in any manner the Health Officer in the inspection or the examination of such bakery or other place where bakery products are kept, sold, offered for sale or prepared for transportation; or in the inspection or examination of any wagon or other conveyance or receptacle used for the cartage, transportation or conveyance of any bakery products in, upon, or along any street, alley, thoroughfare, or open space, or any private driveway or other private property.

(Prior code § 5540.16)