ART. 43] FOOD PEODUCTS. 657

1914, ch. 678.

1770. The said State Board of Health of Maryland and its agents,
and inspectors in the discharge of their duties under the provisions
hereof and every person, firm, association or corporation engaged in.
the handling of food and food products, shall be governed by the fol-
lowing rules and regulations, which are hereby made the law of this.
State:

(a) The floors, side-walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, imple-
ments and machinery of every establishment or place where food is
manufactured,, packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks
and vehicles used in the transportation of food products, shall at all
times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Unclean and unsani-
tary conditions shall be deemed to exist if the food in the process of
manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, sale, distribution or trans-
portation, is not' protected as far as practicable from flies, filth and all
foreign or injurious contamination; or if the refuse, dirt and waste,
products subject to decomposition and fermentation incident to the
manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, distribution and
transportation of food, are not removed daily; or if all the trucks, trays,
boxes, baskets and other receptacles, chutes, platform, racks, tables,
shelves and knives, saws, cleavers and other utensils and other machin-
ery used, in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning and
all processes, are not at all times kept clean, or if the clothing and body
of operatives, employees, clerks or other persons therein employed, are
not kept as clean as the nature of their employment will permit.

(b) The side-walls and ceilings of every bakery, confectionery
creamery, cheese factory, ice cream plant, milk plant and distributing
dairy, hotel and restaurant kitchen, shall be kept clean; and the floor
of every building, room, basement, cellar or other place occupied or
used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, selling or dis-
tribution of food must be kept clean,.

(c) Every building, room, basement, cellar or other place occupied;
or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, canning, sale or
distributing of food, shall have convenient toilet or toilet rooms which,
shall be kept separate or partitioned from the room or rooms where the
process of production, manufacture, packing, canning, selling or dis-
tribution is conducted, and the floor and all parts of such toilet room-
shall be kept clean.

(d) No person or persons shall sleep in any work room of a bake
shop, creamery, cheese factory, milk plant or distributing dairy, ice
cream plant or in the kitchen, dining room or food storage room of any,
hotel, restaurant or boarding house.

(e) No employer shall knowingly require, permit or suffer any per-
son to work, nor shall any person knowingly work, in any building,
room, basement, cellar or vehicle or any other place occupied or used
for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale,
collection, distribution and transportation of food, who is affected with
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