Los Gatos Municipal Code Art. I In General

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

Food. 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. Any public or private market, shop, store, delicatessen, candy, factory, storehouse, warehouse, cold storage plant, or other plant 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, including but not restricted to grocery stores and warehouses; candy and confectioners' plants or stores; bakeries; bottling works; food and condiment packers; 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; and all food processing or cannery plants of any type. Such term does not include a drive-in restaurant.

Health Officer. The County Health Officer, or deputies of the County Health Officer, acting as the Town Health Officer.

Restaurant. 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 boardinghouse, club and any other eating or drinking establishment, which sells or offers for sale food to the public, as well as kitchens, box lunch establishments, catering services and barbecue pits in which food or drink is prepared on the premises for sale or distribution elsewhere. Such term shall also include all cafeterias or restaurants serving commercial establishments as part of the organization and serving the public, whether as employees or visitors.

Utensils. Kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, containers, machinery, implements and receptacles used in processing, storage, distribution or serving of food or drink.

(Code 1968, § 13-1)

Cross reference— Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1.10.015.

Every person who shall sell, exchange, give away, abandon, or discontinue any restaurant or food establishment within the Town, and every person who shall purchase or otherwise acquire any such restaurant or food establishment within the Town, shall immediately notify the Health Officer, the Health Officer's assistant or duly authorized representative, as to the fact thereof.

(Code 1968, § 13-11)

No person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in the person's possession for sale or distribution in the Town any sausage or other meat food product, unless the same has been manufactured or prepared in accordance with the laws of the State.

(Code 1968, § 13-12)

No person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in the person's possession for sale or distribution in the Town 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.

(Code 1968, § 13-13)

No person shall knowingly sell, offer for sale or otherwise dispose of any article of food or drink knowing the same has become tainted, decayed or otherwise unwholesome or unfit to be eaten or drunk, with intent to permit the same to be eaten or drunk.

(Code 1968, § 13-14)

The Health Officer, or the Health Officer's assistant or duly authorized representative, is authorized and directed to seize and destroy or denaturize any tainted, diseased, decayed or partially decayed, or unwholesome meat, fish, shellfish, fowl, fruits, vegetables or other unwholesome food found within the Town.

(Code 1968, § 13-15)

The Health Officer is authorized to make such additional rules and regulations as may be necessary to secure the proper sanitation of all restaurants or food establishments, and for the proper and orderly administration of this chapter.

(Code 1968, § 13-16)