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Sec. 407. Food establishments — infectious diseases
and disease carriers.

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the handling
or dispensing of foodstuffs in any food establishment while suffering
from or a carrier of contagious or infectious disease. It
shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the handling,
preparation, sale or dispensing of any foodstuffs or be employed
at any food establishment during the time a case of infectious,
contagious or communicable disease exists at the place where
such person resides, or during the time that such place is quarantined
or thereafter until the quarantine shall have been removed,
except with the permission of the Health Officer. It shall be
unlawful for any proprietor, manager, or other person in charge
of a food establishment to employ any person suffering from any
infectious, contagious or communicable disease, or known to be
a carrier of same, or residing at a place where an infectious, contagious
or communicable disease exists. Violation of the provisions
of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each
offense, and each day shall constitute a separate offense.