Mountain View Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

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

Food. "Food" shall include 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. "Food establishment" shall mean and include 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, or compounded, or offered for sale for human consumption. Such establishments will specifically include but shall not be restricted to: grocery stores and warehouse; 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; all food processing or cannery plants of any type.

Health officer. "Health officer" shall mean the county health officer, his/her assistants, or authorized deputies acting as health officer of the city.

Restaurant. "Restaurant" means any coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order cafe, luncheonette, tavern, bar, sandwich stand, soda fountain, public school lunch room 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 establishments, catering services, barbecue pits in which food or drink is prepared on the premises for sale or distribution elsewhere. The term "restaurant" as used in this article 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. "Utensils" includes kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, containers, machinery, implements, receptacles used in processing, storage, distribution or serving of food or drink.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

The presence, in or about the place of business of any person dealing in food, or in or about any vehicle used by any such person for the delivery of the same, of any food, shall be prima facie evidence of intent on the part of such person to sell the same and of the fact that he is holding or offering the same for sale.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

The health officer is hereby authorized and directed to seize and destroy or denaturize any tainted, diseased, decayed or partially decayed, or unwholesome food found within the city.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

No person or agent or employee of any person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in 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 city inspection.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

No person or agent or employee of any person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in pos-ession for sale or distribution in the city any sausage or other meat food product unless the same has been manufactured or prepared in accordance with the laws of the state.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)