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Title 13 : Property Maintenance Regulations
Chapter 1 : Miscellaneous

13-106 : Food service establishments.

  1. Minimum standards adopted. The inspection of eating and drinking establishments within the city or its police jurisdiction, the issuing, suspension and revocation of permits for the operation of such establishments, the sale of adulterated, misbranded, or unwholesome food and drink and the enforcement of this section shall be regulated in accordance with the terms of the unabridged form of the 1962 edition of the U. S. Public Health Service Ordinance Food Service Sanitation Ordinance as set out in the Food Service Sanitation Manual, 1962 edition, published by the United States Public Health Service. Three (3) copies of which publication have been filed with the recorder in accordance with the provisions of state law.
  2. "Municipality," as used in code, defined. Wherever the term "municipality of . . ." shall appear in the food service code adopted in this chapter, it shall mean the City of Newport.
  3. Parenthetical expressions deleted from code. All parenthetical expressions referring to grading shall be deleted from the food service code adopted in this section.

  4. Amendments to code. The food service code adopted in this section is hereby amended as follows:

    Section E, subsection 4, shall read as follows:

    4. Toilet facilities: Each food-service establishment shall be provided with adequate, conveniently located toilet facilities for its employees, conforming with the requirements of the state department of public health. Toilet fixtures shall be of sanitary design and readily cleanable. Toilet facilities, including rooms and fixtures, shall be kept in a clean condition and in good repair. The doors of all toilet rooms shall be selfclosing. Toilet tissue shall be provided. Easily cleanable receptacles shall be provided for waste materials, and such receptacles in toilet rooms for women shall be covered. Where the use of nonwater-carried sewage disposal facilities have been approved by the health authority, such facilities shall be separate from the establishment and shall comply with the standards of the state department of public health. When toilet facilities are provided for patrons, such facilities shall meet the requirements of this subsection.

    Section H, subsection 7, shall read as follows:

    7. Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this code shall, upon conviction, be punished in accordance with the provisions of the general penalty clause of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Newport. (1973 Code, § 10-24--10-27)