THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1961

food products, shall be governed by the following rules and
regulations which are hereby made the law of this State:

(a) The floors, side-walls, ceilings, furniture, recepta-
cles, 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, dis-
tribution or transportation, is not protected as far as prac-
ticable from flies, filth and all foreign or injurious con-
tamination; or if the refuse, dirt and waste products
subject to decomposition and fermentation incident to the
manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, dis-
tribution and transportation of food, are not removed
daily; or if all the trucks, trays, boxes, baskets and other
receptacles, chutes, platforms, racks, tables, shelves and
knives, saws, cleavers and other utensils and other ma-
chinery used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mix-
ing, canning, freezing, and all processes, are not at all times
kept clean, or if the clothing and body of operatives, em-
ployees, 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, con-
fectionery, 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, canning, freezing, stor-
ing, 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, freezing, 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 or production, manufacture, packing, canning,
freezing, selling or distribution 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 dis-
tributing dairy, ice cream plant or other type of food proc-
essing 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 person to work, nor shall any person knowingly