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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 104ORDINANCE NO. 104 All ORDI"AWR Or TUR CITY COUNCIL or THR CITY OF PALM DRURT, CALIFORNIA, REt MATING FOOD HANDLRRS The City Council of the City of Palm Desert, California, DORS HBRSSY ORPAIN as fellows: Section 1. Persons Affected. No person who knows he or she is infected with active commmicable tuberculosis shall engage or serve or seek employment In any work, occupation or employment which requires or occasions the hurdling of any food or 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 consump- tion. No owner, manager or 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 (3) weeks, any person who does not hold and.produce a health certificate as required by this Ordinance, or for any period whatsoever, any per- son known or reasonably believed to be infected with active communicable tuberculosis. This 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 associa- tions and civic or community organizations or groups, the primary pur- pose of which is the betterment of the cultural, social or economic welfare and environment of the community. Section 2. Application for Certificate. Each person who is engaged or intends to engage in an occupation or employment for which a health certificate is required by Section 1 of this Ordinance shall, before or within three (3) weeks after he begins such work, 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. Such application must be accompanied by a signed statement of a physician duly authorized to practice medicine in the State of California, or a report from an organization acceptable to the County Health Officer, showing that the applicant is free of active, communicable tuberculosis. Said statement or report shall show that within six (6) 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 Nantoux test, the result of which was negative. The statement or report must show that in the Mantoux test no less than five (S) tuberculin units, which is the eqquivalent of .0001 milligrams intermediate PPD, or one to two thousand (1000 to 2000) solution of sol tuberculin freshly prepared, have been used. Induration of six (6) or more millimetera will be construed as a positive skin test. All positive akin tests reactors to the Hantoux test will be required to obtain a chest x-ray. Said statement or report shall bear a date not more than six (6) months before the date of application. Section 3. Issuance of Certificate. If the Health Officer determines from an examination of the statement or report accompanying such application, or from such other evidence to he may require that the applicant for a health certificate is fra from active communicable tuberculosis, he shall immediately 010 <' term a health tetittleste to the applicant which shall state such fact, and which shall bear the name of the applicant and the date of lesuance. such health certificate shall expire one (1) year after the date tt *as issued. Any person whose health in the opinion of the County Health Officer requires further investigation nsay be isnued a t ra health certificate at the discretion of the County Henith Officer for a period up to three (3) months during which time such investigation shall be carried out to determine the presence of active tom micable tuberculosis. Section 4._ Duplicate Certificate. The County Health Officer for good cause may issue duplicate health certificates. Section S. Substitute Certificate. 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 (1) year from the date of its issuance. Section 6. Revocation of Certificate. 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 coammicable tuberculosis. Section 7. Display of Certificate. Each person required 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 dis- play at the place of employment the health certificates 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 un- expired certificate shall be returned to the holder. Section S. Penalties. Any violation of this Ordinance is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($5On.00), or by im- prisonnent in the County jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fines and imprisonment. The City Clerk of the City of Palm Desert, California, is hereby directed to cause this Ordinance to be published once within fifteen (15) days of adoption in the Palm Desert Post, a newspaper published and circulated within the City of Palm Desert, California. PASSED APPROVED and ADOPTED this 18thday of December 1975. by the foilovirg vote: AYES: ASTON, BERSON, BRUSH, Mc HOES: NONE ASSENTS .NONE ATTESTS ty erg City of Pales Desert, California -2-