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ORDINANCE NO. 9549
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING CERTAIN PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS
OF HANDLERS OF FOOD AND DRINK PREPARED FOR HUMAN CON-
SUMPTION, AND ALSO HANDLERS OF UNPACKAGED PRODUCE,
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, REPEALING
ORDINANCE NO. 6842 IN ITS ENTIRETY, DECLARING AN EM-
ERGENCY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Hereafter, no person employed for wages as
handler of food and drink and unpackaged produce prepared for
human consumption or sold in an unpackaged form shall obtain
or continue in such employment without first obtaining from
the City Health Department a health certificate.
SECTION 2. Wages are defined, "to be money or anything
of value".
SECTION 3. Handlers of food and drink prepared for human
consumption and of unpackaged produce are defined, "as persons
who in any way come in contact with such food and drink and un-
packaged produce in a form in which such food, drink, or un-
packaged produce is not contained in a container where human
hands cannot touch it . It includes also persons who may handle
such produce for display or in the process of selling it."
SECTION 4. Said health certificate shall be effective
only for the period of time indicated on the certificate itself,
and it shall be issued by the City Health Officer only when the
applicant therefor has passed, to the satisfaction of the City
Health Officer, an examination for Venereal and other communi-
cable diseases, including Tuberculosis.
SECTION 5. The examination for Tuberculosis shall be made
by X -Ray of the chest by any competent Roentgenologist, provided
however, that the City Health Officer is empowered in his discre-
tion to require an X -Ray examination by a Roentgenologist of the
City Health Off icerts own choosing. The examination for Venereal
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and other communicable diseases shall be by tests as the City
Health Officer may from time to time prescribe.
SECTION 6. The examination for Tuberculosis shall be con-
ducted not less often than annually, and the examination for
Venereal and other communicable diseases shall be conducted at
least as often as every six months.
SECTION 7. It is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor for
any person to violate Section 1 of this Ordinance and any per-
son found guilty of violating Section 1 shall be fined not less
than $5.00 nor more than $500.00, or imprisoned for less than
one day or more than 120 days, or both fined and imprisoned,
and each day that the violation is continued shall constitute
a separate offense.
SECTION 8. The employers of handlers of food or drink
prepared for human consumption, and of unpackaged produce, are
required to keep possession of the handler's certificate while
the person or persons to whom same is issued remains in their
employment, and it is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor for
any person, firm or corporation employing a handler of food or
drink prepared for human consumption, or unpackaged produce,
to fail to have such persons health certificate in their pos-
session at all times for exhibit on demand to the City Health
Officer or any person designated by him to inspect same, and
any person found guilty of such misdemeanor shall on conviction
be fined any sum not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 or
imprisoned for not less than one day and not more than 30 days,
or both fined and imprisoned.
SECTION 9. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and that Ordinance
No. 6842 is repealed in its entirety; that because Venereal and
other communicable diseases are transmitted readily through the
medium of food and because at the present time there is no
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adequate method of examining persons handling food or drink
prepared for human consumption, or of unpackaged produce, and
because the public health of Little Rock is greatly endangered
thereby, and because this and the requirements of this ordinance
are helpful in correcting this pressing and immediate affair, an
emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this ordinance shall
be in full force and effect from and after its passage and ap-
proval.
PASSED: May 24, 1954
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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City Clerk Mayor