2597ORDINANCE NO. 2597
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING
TITLE 6 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE BY
ADDING THERETO CHAPTER 6.64.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That Title 6 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the
same is hereby amended by adding thereto Chapter 6.64, reading as
follows:
"CHAPTER 6.64 --FOOD HANDLING BUSINESSES.
"SECTION 6.64.010 DEFINITIONS
The following terms used in this Ordinance shall have
the meanings indicated below:
HEALTH DEPARTMENT OR DEPARTMENT shall mean the Orange
County Health Department, which acts as the health department of
the City pursuant to resolution made under the provisions of
Section 476 and 477 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of
California.
HEALTH OFFICER shall mean the County Health Officer or
his deputy or assistant duly authorized to act in his behalf in
case of his absence or incapacity.
INSPECTOR shall mean a sanitarian, as defined in Health
and Safety Code Section 540, employed by the Health Department,
or the Health Officer or any deputy health officer authorized to
inspect premises or equipment for the enforcement of this
Ordinance.
PREMISES shall include land, buildings, vehicles and
ships and other vessels wherein food is handled, stored, dis-
tributed, prepared, processed, served or sold, and also equipment
installed or used in food establishments or on such premises.
BAKERY means any room, building, premises or place
which is used or operated for commercial baking, preparing, manu-
facturing, processing or packaging of bakery products. It in-
cludes all rooms of a bakery in which bakery products or ingredi-
ents are stored or handled. It does not, however, include any
restaurant as defined in this Section.
RESTAURANT means any coffeeshop, cafeteria, shortorder
cafe, luncheonette, tavern, cocktail lounge, sandwich stand, soda
fountain, private and public school cafeteria or eating estab-
lishment, in -plant or employee eating establishment, and any other
eating establishment, organization, club, including veterans'
club, boardinghouse, guesthouse, or political subdivision, which
gives, sells, or offers for sale, food to the public, guests,
patrons, or employees as well as kitchens in which food is pre-
pared on the premises for serving elsewhere, including catering
functions. The term "restaurant" shall not include itinerant
restaurants, vending machines, food vending vehicles or vessels,
cooperative arrangements by employees who purchase food or
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beverages for their own consumption and where no employee is
assigned full time to care for or operate equipment used in such
arrangement, or private homes; nor shall the term "restaurant"
include churches, church societies, private clubs or other non-
profit associations of a religious, philanthropic, civic improve-
ment, social, political, or educational nature, which purchase
food, food products, or beverages or which receive donations of
food, food products, or beverages, for service without charge to
their members, or for service or sale at a reasonable charge to
their members or to the general public at occasional fund-raising
events, for consumption on or off the premises at which the food,
food products, or beverages are served or sold, if the service
or sale of such food, food products or beverages does not consti-
tute a primary purpose or function of the club or association,
and if no employee or member is assigned full time to care for
or operate equipment used in such arrangement.
ITINERANT RESTAURANT means any restaurant, operating
from temporary facilities, serving, offering for sale, selling,
or giving away food or beverage, and includes, but is not limited
to, a restaurant where only wrapped sandwiches or other wrapped
and packaged, ready -to -eat foods are served, and any mobile unit
on which food is prepared and served. Itinerant restaurant does
not include catering vehicle.
VENDING MACHINE means any self-service device which,
upon insertion of a coin, coins, or token, or by similar means,
dispenses unit servings of food or beverage, either in bulk or
in package, without the necessity of replenishing the device be-
tween each vending operation, but not including devices, dispens-
ing peanuts, wrapped candy, gum, or ice exclusively.
CATERING VEHICLE means any vehicle from which ready -
to -eat pre-packaged foods and beverages, in individual portions,
are sold to the public, including wrapped sandwiches, wrapped
pastries, bottled soft drinks, bulk soft drinks and coffee,
canned soups, tamales and other similar foods. "Catering vehicle"
does not include bakery vehicles, produce peddlers, ice cream
peddlers and similar food selling vehicles.
"SECTION 6.64.020 PERMIT REQUIRED; CONDITIONS AND TERM
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or other legal
entity to operate, within the City of Anaheim, any business in
which food is prepared, sold or served for public consumption
upon the premises or elsewhere, or any food processing or manu-
facturing plant, or any store, vehicle, vessel or facility for the
sale, storage or retail or wholesale distribution of foods or
beverages, without first applying for and receiving a Food Vending
Permit for such operation issued by the Health Department under
the provisions of this Ordinance. Any person or other legal
entity within the City of Anaheim operating any such business
on the effective date of this Ordinance or within thirty (30)
days thereafter shall have ninety (90) days from its effective
date in which to apply for and receive a Food Vending Permit for
such operation issued by the Health Department under the pro-
visions of this Ordinance.
(b) The places of business for which such permits are
required shall include, but shall not be limited to, any restaurant,
itinerant restaurant, cafe, lunch counter, cafeteria, soda
fountain, ice cream parlor, soft drink stand, fruit and vegetable
stand, grocery;, meat market, bakery, popcorn or peanut stand,
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bottling plant, wholesale warehouse, catering vehicle, food
vending vehicle and vessel, and businesses which service vending
- machines located in the City of Anaheim, regardless of the loca-
tion of the facilities from which such vending machines are
serviced.
(c) This Ordinance shall not apply to cigar stands or
other places of business or vehicles where no food of any kind is
sold, other than candy, or soft drinks received and sold in sealed
containers, nor to vehicles engaged in the delivery of food
products to wholesale or retail establishments for resale.
(d) Every applicant for a Food Vending Permit shall
file with the Health Department a written application which shall
state the name and address of the applicant, the location of the
food handling business, the character of the business which is
proposed to be conducted and such other information as the Health
Department may require.
(e) No permit shall be granted, renewed or reinstated
unless the Health Department determines, upon making an investi-
gation, that the place of business for which the application is
made is equipped, operated and maintained in a safe, sanitary
and healthful manner, and that no conditions exist on the premises
which are, or which may be, unsafe, unsanitary, unwholesome or
detrimental to the health of the patrons, consumers, employees or
the general public.
(f) Nor shall a permit be granted, renewed or rein-
stated unless the Health Department determines that the condition
of the premises is in accordance with the requirements of all
applicable provisions of the California Health and Safety Code,
of the ordinances of the City of Anaheim, of this Ordinance, and
of all rules and regulations promulgated under Section 6.64.120
below, and that said premises are capable of being operated in
accordance with such laws and regulations.
(g) Permits may be granted at any time during the year,
but all permits shall expire at the end of the calendar year.
Each permit shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises
or vehicle for which it is issued.
"SECTION 6.64.030 CONSTRUCTION, CONVERSION
AND ALTERATION OF ANY FOOD
HANDLING BUSINESSES
Prior to the construction, conversion or alteration of
a building for use as a food establishment, or construction or
purchase of a model of vehicle not previously under permit to any
person in the City, two copies of the plans and specifications
therefor shall be submitted to the Development Services Department,
Building Division, for review. The Building Division shall submit
one copy of said plans and specifications to the Orange County
Health Department. Each of these agencies shall within ten (10)
days thereafter issue their respective statements specifying what
modifications, if any, they deem to be required for compliance
with all applicable laws and ordinances.
"SECTION 6.64.040 SANITATION REQUIREMENTS
All businesses and premises, for which a permit is
required by this Ordinance shall be constructed, equipped, oper-
ated and maintained so as to comply with the following sanitation
requirements:
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(a) Ingredients used in the preparation of foods or
beverages, and all foods or beverages shall, at all times, be pure,
free from adulteration and spoilage, shall have been obtained from
approved sources, when such approval is required by law, and shall
otherwise be fully fit for human consumption. No food or beverage
prepared in a private home shall be offered for sale, sold or
given away in any establishment subject to these requirements.
(b) All foods, beverages, utensils and equipment shall,
at all times, be protected from contamination and pollution by dust,
dirt, flies, vermin, rodents, animals, unnecessary handling, drop-
let infection, overhead leakage, insecticides, rodenticides, clean-
ing compounds and other poisonous or deleterious substances, and
all other forms of contamination.
(c) All readily perishable foods or beverages, and any
foods or beverages capable of supporting the rapid and progressive
growth of micro-organisms which can cause food infections or food
intoxications, shall, when being held, stored, distributed, trans-
ported or displayed for sale or service, be maintained at or below
a temperature of 50° F. All such foods or beverages, when being
maintained hot for serving, or while being served hot, shall be
kept at a temperature above 140° F. No such foods or beverages
shall be held at such temperatures for such periods of time and
under such conditions which can cause food intoxication or in-
fection. Accurate thermometers shall be installed in all refrig-
erators and food warming devices so as to be readily visible; and
thermometers shall be readily available for measuring the tempera-
tures of perishable foods.
(d) All employees preparing, serving, or handling food
shall wear clean washable outer garmets or other clean uniforms
and shall keep their hands clean at all times while engaged in
handling food, beverage, or utensils. All such food handlers
shall wash their hands and arms with soap or detergent and warm
water before commencing work after using toilet facilities and
before returning to work, and at such other times as are necessary
to prevent contamination of food.
All employees preparing, serving or handling food
shall wear hairnets, caps, headbands, or other suitable coverings
which confine the hair. Wherever practical, employees serving
food shall use tongs or other implements rather than their hands.
The use of tobacco in any form by any employee while handling or
serving food, beverage, or utensils is prohibited. No employee
or other person shall use tobacco in any form in any room or
space used primarily for the preparation of food, and the employer
shall post and maintain "No Smoking" signs in such rooms or
places.
(e) No person shall be employed in connection with a
food establishment who, in the opinion of the Health Officer, is
affected with, or a carrier of, any disease in a state which is
likely to be communicable to persons exposed as a result of the
affected employee's normal duties as a food handler.
(f) All premises shall be so constructed, equipped,
operated and maintained so as to prevent the entrance, harborage
and breeding of rodents, flies, insects and other vermin. The
doors, windows and other openings of all premises, except those
handling only produce, and/or packaged foods, shall be fitted
with self-closing doors, screens or other mechanical devices to
effectively exclude flies and other insects.
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(g) The floor surfaces of all rooms in which foods or
beverages are stored or prepared, utensils are washed, or refuse
or garbage is stored, and the floor surfaces of toilet, lavatory,
dressing or locker rooms, and of walk-in refrigerators shall be
of smooth, hard, impervious easily cleanable construction and
material. The walls and ceilings of all such rooms shall be con-
structed of light-colored, smooth, impervious washable material;
except that the walls and ceilings of rooms used only for the
storage of foods in unopened original containers may be of other
easily cleanable construction.
(h) All rooms and areas shall be provided with suffi-
cient lighting to facilitate sanitary food handling and cleaning
procedures, and to prevent safety hazards.
(i) Sufficient ventilation shall be provided in all
rooms and areas to dissipate disagreeable odors, condensation,
steam, grease and vapors, combustion products and other atmospheric
pollutants; and ventilation shall be sufficient to provide a
reasonable condition of comfort for employees. All cooking equip-
ment shall be provided with mechanical exhaust ventilation equip-
ment, as required to remove cooking odors, steam, grease, vapors
and combustion products.
(j) The water supply shall be from a source approved
by the Health Officer. All plumbing shall be installed, maintained
and operated so as to prevent potential contamination of the water
supply, foods and utensil washing equipment. Hot and cold running
water under pressure shall be provided in all areas in which food
is prepared or utensils are washed, and such areas shall be pro-
vided with at least a two-compartment sink, with drainboards,
constructed of metal approved by the health officer. Where multi-
use eating or drinking utensils are used, at least a three -
compartment sink, with drainboards, constructed of metal, approved
by the health officer, or, in the alternative, a mechanical dish-
washer approved by the health officer, shall be provided. At
least a single -compartment janitorial sink with hot and cold run-
ning water shall be provided for general clean-up activities in
all food handling businesses, except vehicles.
(k) Suitable space of adequate size to allow orderli-
ness and cleanliness shall be provided for all food handling
operations and the storage of foods, beverages and equipment.
Adequate and suitable enclosed space shall be provided for the
storage of janitorial and maintenance supplies and equipment.
(1) All multi -use utensils, display cases, counters,
shelves, racks, tables, refrigeration equipment, sinks and other
equipment or utensils used in the preparation, service, storage,
distribution or display of foods or beverages shall be made of
non-toxic materials and so constructed, installed and maintained
as to be readily cleaned, and shall be kept clean and in good
repair. All equipment and utensils shall be washed and sanitized
according to methods approved by the Health Officer.
(m) With the exception of vehicles, toilet facilities
shall be provided on the premises and convenient to employees.
Where there are five or more employees of different sex, separate
toilets shall be provided for each sex. Toilet rooms shall be
separated from other portions of the premises by tight -fitting
self-closing doors. Hand -washing facilities shall be provided
for employees within or adjacent to toilet rooms, and shall be
equipped with hot and cold running water through a mixing -type
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faucet. Handwashing detergent or soap and sanitary towels in
dispensers shall be provided at handwashing basins.
(n) Except for vehicles, a room or enclosure, separated
from toilets or any food storage or food preparation area shall be
provided where employees may change and store their outer garments.
No employee shall dress or undress or store his clothing in any
other area on the premises.
(o) All sewage and liquid wastes shall be discharged
into the public sewerage system or into an individual sewerage
disposal system in accordance with the Uniform Plumbing Code as
adopted and revised from time to time by the City of Anaheim.
(p) All premises shall be provided with such facilities
and equipment as are necessary to properly store or dispose of
all waste materials. All food waste and rubbish containing food
waste shall be kept in tight, non-absorbent, rodent -proof con-
tainers covered with tight -fitting lids. The containers shall be
maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. All food waste and
rubbish shall be removed and disposed of in a sanitary manner as
frequently as may be necessary to prevent a nuisance.
(q) Living and sleeping quarters shall be separated
entirely, by a solid partition, from the food handling business.
No couch, cot, bed or other sleeping accommodation shall be main-
tained or kept in any room where food is prepared, stored or
served.
(r) The premises, equipment and all utensils shall be
kept clean and sanitary, free of vermin and in good repair. No
live animal, bird or fowl shall be kept or allowed in any food
establishment, with the exception of dogs used by the blind.
"SECTION 6.64.050 SUSPENSION OF PERMITS
A permit issued under this Ordinance or its predecessor
may be suspended, under the procedure set forth in Sections
6.64.060 through 6.64.100 for any of the following reasons:
(a) violation of State law, (b) violation of this Ordinance,
(c) violation of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
Section 6.64.120 or upon a recommendation for revocation of the
permit, pending a hearing thereon.
"SECTION 6.64.060 NOTICE OF VIOLATION
When any of the aforesaid laws, this Ordinance, or rules
and regulations have been violated an inspector may serve written
notice thereof entitled "Notice of Violation", specifying:
(a) The acts and conditions constituting each violation.
(b) The provision or provisions violated thereby.
(c) The corrective steps required.
(d) The date by which all such corrections must be com-
pleted, allowing a reasonable period therefor.
(e) That the permittee has a right to a hearing, upon
request, and
(f) That if no hearing
Department does not receive notice
_ been made before 9:00 A.M. of the
permit will be suspended from that
corrected.
"SECTION 6.64.070 HEARING
is requested, and if the Health
that all such corrections have
date named under (d) above, the
time until such violations are
The permit holder shall have the right to a hearing, on
all violations listed in the notice. The permit shall, however,
be suspended unless the Department receives from the permit holder,
before 9:00 A.M. of the date specified under Section 6.64.060 (d),
a written or oral request for a hearing, or notice that all viola-
tions have been corrected as specified.
The hearing shall be held by the Health Officer or his
duly authorized representative who is a qualified Sanitarian as
defined in Section 540 of the Health and Safety Code and regis-
tered as provided in Section 542 thereof, but shall not be the
inspector who reported the violations or who inspected any cor-
rective measures taken. The Health Officer or his duly authorized
representative shall give notice to the City of Anaheim five (5)
days before said hearing is to take place.
The person conducting the hearing shall make a written
order as to each alleged violation listed on the notice and shall
deliver a signed copy thereof to the permittee. As to each
violation, the order shall either: (a) suspend the permit until
it is corrected, or (b) extend the time or modify the measures to
be taken for correction before suspension, or (c) declare that the
violation has been corrected so as to comply with the applicable
law, or (d) declare that there was no violation.
"SECTION 6.64.080 REVOCATION OF PERMIT FOR
REPEATED VIOLATIONS
If there shall have been three or more Notices of
Violation issued within the 12 -month period immediately preceding
the current violation as to the premises in question as provided
in Section 6.64.060, and not overruled upon hearing, the order
of the person conducting the hearing or, if no hearing is held,
of the inspector, who is responsible for the third such notice,
shall recommend to the Health Officer whether or not the permit
shall be revoked as provided below. If it is so recommended, the
permit may be ordered suspended forthwith, by the Health Officer,
pending the hearing on such proposed revocation.
Upon such a recommendation for revocation by the person
conducting the hearing, the permit in question may be revoked by
the Health Officer after hearing, upon his finding that such
violations were serious enough and showed such lack of responsi-
bility towards the public health as to require such revocation
to protect the public health.
"SECTION 6.64.090 SUSPENSION OF PERMIT FOR REFUSAL
OF ENTRY TO INSPECTOR
IT shall be a violation of this Ordinance for any person
to deny or hinder entry by any inspector for the purpose of
inspecting any of the premises described in Section 6.64.020,
above, or any portion thereof; and in such event the inspector
may forthwith suspend the Food Vending Permit issued for the
premises.
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"SECTION 6.64.100 SUMMARY SUSPENSION
-- whenever an inspector finds unsanitary or other conditions
in the operation of any food establishment which, in his judgment,
constitute an immediate and substantial hazard to the public health
he shall issue a written notice to the permit holder or person in
charge of the premises as provided in Section 6.64.060 above,
except that instead of the matter specified under (f), it shall
state that the permit is immediately suspended and shall set
forth the substance of the following sentence. Any person to
whom such an order is issued shall immediately comply therewith;
but, upon request made to the inspector who orders the suspension,
or to the Health Officer or his authorized representative, either
personally or by telephone or in writing, he shall be afforded
a hearing as soon as possible, and notice of its setting may be
given in the same manner as the request.
"SECTION 6.64.110 CONTINUED SUPERVISION OF PREMISES
FOR WHICH PERMIT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED
OR REVOKED
When any permit is first suspended hereunder, or when
any premises governed hereby as defined in Section 6.64.020 shall
have been closed for business and left in an unsanitary condition,
the Health Department shall have the power to enter to insure
that the premises are closed down in a manner which will not
endanger the public health. If the permittee or his employee
in charge cannot be found, or is unwilling or unable to remedy
the condition of the premises, the owner of the premises shall
be notified of the unsanitary conditions and shall be required
to take such remedial action as may be necessary to obviate
such condition.
"SECTION 6.64.120 RULES AND REGULATIONS
The Health Officer may adopt and enforce rules and
regulations necessary to administer this Ordinance including
regulations pertaining to:
(a) Forms for applications, permits and notices.
(b) Forms and procedures for hearings upon the granting,
denying, suspending, revoking or reinstating of permits.
(c) Inspections of premises and reporting thereon.
"SECTION 6.64.130 VIOLATIONS AND PENALTY
Any person violating any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con-
viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than
Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) and not more than Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a
period of not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment."
SECTION 2.
The City Clerk shall certify to
Ordinance and shall cause the same to be
fifteen (15) days after its adoption, in
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the passage of this
printed once within
the Anaheim Bulletin,
a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated in said City, and thirty (30) days from and after
its final passage it shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and signed by
me this 6th day of November 1968.
MAYOR OF THLr CITY DF4:�PAHEIM
ATTEST: DENE M. WILLIAMS, CITY CLERK
By 42��itis Deputy
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANA=M
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim,
do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Anaheim, held on the 29th day of October 19 68 and
that the same was passu and adopte at a regular meeting
of the City Council held on the 6th day of November
19 68 , by the following vote o t e members ereo 7 -
AYES:
AYES: COUNCILMEN : Dutton, Krein, Clark and Pebley
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Schutte
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of
Anaheim approved and signed said ordinance on the 6th day
of November , 1968 .
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 6th
day Of November , 19 68.
DENE M. WILLIAMS, CITY CLERK
BY i7? r�l�a2�LGn� Deputy
�i
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
1, DENE M. WILLIAMS, CITY CL= RK OF THE CITY OF AN IAFIM,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING OkDINtsN-E IS
THE OR!GiN'�L. OfRD!NANCE NO. 2597 AND WAS
PUBLISHED ONCE IN THE Anaheim Bulletin
ON THE 15th DAY OF November 1968
DENE M. WILLIAMS, By: C vev Gz/L t ems- r Deputy -
CITY CLERK epu Y CITY CLERK
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