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Ord 243 4/19/1917 r ORDINANCE No 243. Ali ORDI yAidCE REGULATI IG ThE Fl"IE II'G AND OPERATION OF BAXE3HOPS A-vD THE' PR'' 'A ATL:,ii, SALE AND D 11VEM! OF BAXESHOP PROD?TCTS FIXING FENAZTIES. SECTION 1. No persons , firm, association or corporation shall sell within the limits of the City- of Wichita Falls , Texas, any bread or bakeshop products with- out having first applied for and obtained a permit so to do from the Board of health of the City of Wichita Falls , Texas. The permit number shall be conspicuously posted in every bakeshop, store, or other place from which bread or other bakehhop products are sold; and if any wagon, cart or other vehicle is used for the delivery or distribu- tion of bread or other bakeshop products, the permit number shall be painted on each side thereof in figures not less than four inches in height. SECTION 2. Any place used for producing, mix- ing, compounding or baking for sale any bread, biscuit, crackers, rolls, cake, macaroni, pie, or any food pro- ducts of which flour or meal is the p-rihe ipal ingredient, shall be deemed a bakeshop. SSCTIOIJ 3. Any place used as a bakeshop shall be provided with floors of Closely impervious material which can be thoroughly cleaned. SECTION 4. Every baker, or other person in charge of any bakeshop,shall keep the floors, side walls, ceilings, woodwork, fixtures, tools, machinery and uten- sils in a thoroughly cleari and sanitary condition , and. every bakeshop shall be provided with adequate ventilation so as to insure free circulatior: of air at all tines. SECTION 5. The door and window openings of every bakeshop shall be provided with soind screens of mesh s-ufficiently fine to keep otzt flies grid other in- sects. SECTIOII 6. The side walls and ceilings of every ba.-�eshop shall be well plastered, or sheathed with metal, wood, or tile. All plastered walls or ceilings shall be kept lime washed or calcimined , or shall be painted with oil paint, and all wood work in every bake- shop shall be well oiled and painted and washed clean. SECTIOiJ 7. It shall be uxilawful for any owner , agent, or lessee of a bakeshop, mak.i_ng use of a portable oven, to cover the same with dirt , sand or ashes, unless the same be protected by some proper covering to prevent dust flying about the room. SEQTION S. The use of open .rigs under ovens as places of storage for coal, coke, and ashes is prohibited , unless the same be placed in covered tight barrels . SEC�'Ii 9. The floors of all Oakeshops must be scrubbed with soap and water once a week and scraped daily. S�CTI Di`I 10. ito water closets shall be entered from or shall be In direct c.ommuni.cation •u�itllh the real,eshor. Every washstand. in bakeshop shill be provided with clean towels and soap at all tines. SE T10N 11. ITo persor.,.s shall sleep in a bake- shop,and the sleeping places of persons employed in bahe- shops shall be kept separate from the place where flour and meal or food products are Handled or stored. SECT 1011 12. No domeotic anlinals shall be per- mitted in a bakeshop or place where food products are stored in connection therewith. SECTIO T 13. ;very owner or p,: son. in cl- r-e of a bakeshop shall be required to keep 7-_ i_-rself and !J3 em- ployees in a clean w.�rdition and suitably clothed �r�hile engaged in the production, handling, , or selling of bake- shop products, and shall provide a dressing room, separated from the place where flour or deal or other food products are stored or kept. SEC°l I0N 14. "Receptacles for exl,ec tora tiori, of inipervious raaterial, must be cleaned at least once in every twenty-four hours , and shall be maintained and. kept by the person in charge of every bakeshop, ail (I no atten(da« t or other person shall spit on the floor, side-walls, or on any place in such bakeshop. SEOn,101 15. Smoking, snuffing or chewing tobacco is forbidden in a bakeshop. Notice forbidding all persons to use tobacco or to spit on the floor or side walls shall be posted in every bakeshop. No newspaper or soiled paper of any sort shall be used during the baking process or for wrapping articles designed for sale or delivery as human food . SECTIOiu 16, No person who has tuberculosis, ven- ereal or other corrmuunicable disease , shall work in a bake- shop, and no person in charge of such bakeshop shall re- quire, permit or stiffer such person to be employed. r ' SECT IO.1 17. All rooms for the storage of flour or other food products, used in connection with a,n;;r bake- shop, shall be dry and well ventilated ; and evor y bake- shop and rooms used for the storage of materials a,ncl food products, in connection therewith, shall be provided with shelves, trays , troughs, bins, cases, and all other appli- ances for handling and storing the same wl,_ich will protect such flour, meal or other food products from rats , mice, roaches, flies, and other contaminating vermin, and. which shall be regularly moved and cleaned as often as may be necessary , Sie:lION 16. All prepared foods , bread , cakes, pastry, confectionery, and other cooked or prepared food stuffs, shall not be exposed to contamination by dust, insects, or other extraneous substance, within or without such rooms ; and if not securely and constantly wrapped or enclosed and sold. in original packages and. coverings, same shall be kept in a secure and closed. container, such as shall afford complete protection from such contamination, except when removed from such case or container for the immediate purposes and operations of si,ch business. SECTION 19 . All wagons, carts , or other ve- hicles used in the City of -Wichita Falls , Texas, for the delivery or distribution of bread or other bakeshop pro- ducts shall be constructed so as to prevent flies , dust, and other contamii3ating matter from enterifie into said wagon, cart, or other vehicle, or upon its ceiitents. (a) The delivery wagon, auto , or other vehicle must be equipped with a. door or curtains, moth front and back, so that the bakeshop products are securely .protected r ' f from dust and flies . If ventilation is necessorIT, this can be provided bvT having small holes in the front and rear doors near the top, but these small holes must be covered with screen wire. (b) At the end of each days run the wagon must be thoroughly brushed out inside , so as to remove all crumbs , dust and waste, and shall then be carefully ventilated. ( c) At least once a week the wagons must be thorotig,hly scoured with hot water and soap . (d) No one but a healthy person shall be per- mitted to be a driver of a vehicle for the delivery of bakeshop products. The driver of a bakeshop wagon shall be neat and clean in his dress. (e) The proprietor of the bakeshop mist sup- ply the deliveryman with a clean basket , tray or other receptacle, which is to be provided with a cover or sor,,e means of protecting bakeshop products while they are being transferred from the wagon to the customer. ( f) Bakeshop products that are wrapped in oiled paper need. not be handled as outlined above. SECTION 20 . THE entire yards and pre:Lises occu- pied by any bakeshop shall be well drained and all back rooms, sheds, yards, or other places connected by any opening with any such place, shall at all times be kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, free from filth, refuse, garbage, trash and rubbish. F � r c 3i2TI011 21. The Board of Health may require all bread offered or intended for sale within the City of Wichita Falls, Texas to be suitably wrapped, each loaf separately, in paraffin paper, in si.ich manger as to completely protect the bread from dust and dirt. SECTION 22. INoever shall do anTT of the acts or things prohibited, or wilfully neglect or refuse to do any of the acts or the things enjoined by this Ordinance, or in any way violate any of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than 25.00 nor more than N200.00. Passed and approved this the 19th day of April A D 1917. Attest V G Skeen , A H Britan, City Clerk. Mayor.