1616 ARTICLE 43.

every person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the handling of
food and food products, shall be governed by the following rules and regu-
lations, which are hereby made the law of this State:

(a) The floors, side-walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements
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 unsanitary conditions shall be deemed
to exist if the food in the process of manufacture, preparation, packing,
storing, sale, distribution or transportation, 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 fermen-
tation 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
machinery 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, cream-
ery, 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 distribution 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 distribut-
ing 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 pro-
duction, manufacture, packing, canning, selling or distribution is con-
ducted, 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, restau-
rant or boarding house.

(e) No employer shall knowingly require, permit or suffer any person.to
work, nor shall any person knowingly work, in any building, room, base-
ment, cellar or vehicle or any other place occupied or used for the produc-
tion, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, collection, distri-
bution and transportation of food, who is affected with any venereal
disease, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuberculosis or
consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, trachoma, typhoid
fever, epidemic dysentery, measles, mumps, German measles, whooping
cough, chicken-pox or any other infectious or contagious diseases, unless a
person so affected shall produce a certificate from the State Board of Health
granting him or her permission to work or be employed as aforesaid.