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HomeMy WebLinkAbout565 - Food Handling Business Permits• • ORDINANCE No. 565 .AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH REGU- LATING THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS FOR FOOD HAND. LING BUSINESSES, AND PRO- VIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. The City of Newport Beach, by sand through its City Council, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be unlaw- 161 for any person, firm or corpor- 'ation owning, controlling or leas - ing, acting as agent for, conduct- ing, operating or managing any restaurant, cafe, lunch counter, cafeteria, soda fountain, ice cream parlor, soft drink stand, fruit and vegetable stand, grocery, meat market, bakery, popcorn, peanut, ,or other food vending stands or stations, or food processing or manufacturing plants, bottling plants, or other places or vehicles in the City of Newport Beach where food is prepared for sale, sold, distributed, or displayed for sale, to conduct or operate, or cause or permit to be conducted or operated in said City of New- port Beach such restaurant, cafe, lunch counter, cafeteria, soda foun- tain, ice cream parlor, soft drink stand, fruit and vegetable stand, grocery, meat market, bakery, popcorn, peanut or other food vending stands or stations, or food processing or manufacturing plants, bottling plants or other places or vehicles where food is prepared for sale, sold, distributed, or displayed for sale, or for any person to sell, or offer for sale, or cause or permit to be sold or of- fered for sale, any food or drink therein or therefrom without first applying for and receiving from the Health Department of the City of Newport Beach a permit there- of. A permit for which application is made under the provisions of this Ordinance, may be granted at any time during the year, but all permits granted hereunder shall expire concurrently with the city business license issued for the cor- responding period. A permit may be temporarily suspended by the health office upon violation by the holder of any law, ordinance or regulation governing food sanita- tion, or revoked after a hearing by the health officer. SECTION 2: It shall be law- ful for any member or employee of the Health Department of the City of Newport Beach to enter upon any premises herein niention- ed at any time for the purpose of inspecting the same and any mem- ber of the Health Department may revuirr any person owning a permit undc-r this ordinance to produce the same for inspection. If such inspection be refused the pc;mit shall be forthwith revoked. SECTION 3: That any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeaneor and upon conviction thereof shall 'be punishable with a fine not exceed- ing three hundred dollars ($300), or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the County of Orange for a period of not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both fine and imprisonment. PROVIDED, that this Ordin= ance shall not apply to cigar stands or other places or vehicles of business where no food of any kind or nature is offered for sale or sold other th ^n candy or soft drinks received in sealed packa- ges, or boxes, or bottles where tl:c seal or seals on said packages or boxes are not broken prior to sale thereof. SECTION 4: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force at the expiration of thirty days from and after its passage, and before the expiration of fifteen days the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for and against the same, for at least one week in the New- port Balboa News - Times, a news- paper of general circulation pub- lished in the City of Newport Beach, County of Orange, State of California, together with the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against the same. The above and foregoing Ordin- ance was introduced at an adjourn- ed regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach, held on the 25th day of August, 1947, and was finally passed and adopted on the 2nd day of September, 1947, by the City Council at an adjourned regu- lar meeting thereof, by the fol- lowing vote, to -wit: AYES, Councilmen: Allen, Siler, Isbell, Robertson, Reed. NOES, Councilmen: None. ABSENT, Councilmen: None. ATTEST: FRANK L. RINEHART, City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordin- ance is signed and approved by me this 3rd day of September, 1947. O. B. REED, Mayor. Pub: - -Sept. 18, 1947.