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ORDINANCE NO. 605.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA, CREATING A DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
HEALTH, PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF
A DIRECTOR THEREOF, PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES,
FUNCTIONS AND AUTHORITY OF SAID DIRECTOR,
PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND CONTROL
OF CONTAGIOUS, INFECTIOUS, AND OTHER DI-
SEASES, PROVIDING FOR THE SECURING OF HEALTH
CERTIFICATES BY CERTAIN PERSONS SERVING THE
PUBLIC, MAKING IT THE DUTY OF EMPLOYERS OF
SUCH PERSONS TO PROCURE HEALTH CERTIFICATES
REGULATING THE PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION,
HANDLING, STORAGE AND SALE OF FOODS AND
DRUGS IN SAID CITY, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND OTHER MATTERS RE_
LAT ING THERETO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: That a department of the City Government of the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, to be known as the
Department of Public Health, be and the same is
hereby created.
SECTION 2: That the City Manager be and he is hereby author-
ized and empowered to appoint by and with the con-
sent of(' he City Council of said City, a Director
of Public Health.
SECTION 3: That the Director of Public Health is to be sub-
ject to the supervision and control of the City
Manager in all matters, and shall administer the
affairs of his Department, which shall include
the supervision of communicable diseases in all hospitals, in-
stitutions and agencies appertaining in any way to public health,
the enforcement of this Ordinance and all laws, ordinances and
r uLat for s relative to the preservation and promotion of Public
^ th, the prevention and restriction of all diseases, includ-
ing CL.e enforcement in time of threatened epidemic, of such
q? °antine and isolation regulations as are appropriate to the
Tnorgenc y, the prevention, abatement and suppression of nuisances,
sanitary inspection 'and supervision of the production, trans-
portation and sale of foods and drugs, and generally to do all
things relative and necessary to the preservation and promotion
of public health. He shall appoint by and with the approval of
the City Manager, subject to the provisions of the Civil Service
Procedure, all employees of said Department.
There is hereby created an Advisory Committee of
Five (5) Physicians, who are members of the Dade County Medical
society and who reside in the City of Miami Beach, Florida. Said
Comm:..ttee shall be appointed by the City Council; said Advisory
Committee shall act in an advisory capacity only to the Director
of Public Health and to the City Council of said City of Miami
Beach, in all matters relating to the operation of the Department
of Public Health of said City.
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SECTION 4: Diseases to be reported: The following diseasOs
must be reported:
Aetincomy cocis Opthalmia Neonatorum
Anthra ;. Parat ypho id Fever
Cerebro-spinal fever Plague
Chancr.oftc_ Poliomyelitis
Chickenpox Psittacosis
Cholera, Asiatic Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever
Dengue Rabies
Diphtheria Scarlet Fever
Dysentery (Amebic and
Bacillary). Septic Sore Throat
Encephalitis Smallpox
Favus Syphillis
German Measles Trachoma
Glanders Tuberculosis (all forms)
Gonococcus Infection Trichinosis
Hookworm Infection Tularaemia
Influenza Typhoid Fever
Leprosy Typhus Fever
Malaria Undulant Fever
Measles Whooping Cough
Yellow Fever
provided that the Director of Public Health may
at his discretion require other diseases to be
reported.
SECTION 5: Mef Reporting: Every physician or other
person having knowledge of any
disease specified in Section 4
of this ordinance shall report to the Director of Public Health
the following data:
Name of Disease
Full name, age, sex, race and exact address of
patient, Exact occupation, place of employment,
or school attended by patient.
Date of onset of disease
Name and address of person making report.
Date of Report.
Such report shall be made within twenty-four hours
after the case comes under observation, by telephone or upon a
communicable disease report card furnished by the Health Depart-
ment.
The term "other person" as used in this section
shall mean in the absence of any physician, any parent, guardian,
householder, keeper of hotel or lodging house, midwife, nurse,
school teacher, superintendent of an institution, master of a
vessel, owner or manager of a dairy, or other person having under
his care or observation a person affected or apparently affected
with a communicable disease.
SECTION 6: General Measures for Control. The Director of
Public Health or his
duly authorized repre-
sentative shall make such investigation as in his judgment may
be necessary to determine the presence or absence of any of the
diseases named in Section 4 of this ordinance, and if any shall
be found he shall adopt such measures as are authorized by law
for the prevention of the spread of such disease and for the re-
lief of the patient, and to these ends he or his duly authorized
representative may enter any premises where he suspects the pre-
sence of any such disease.
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SECTION 7: Laboratorz Examinations: The Director of Public
Health shall secure mater'al
for cultures or specimens
for bacteriolog� cal or o 1..er laboratory examination to assist in
determining the (fiaws.i 3 whenever in his ;ivLlgement such proce-
dure is necessary, :i:c_ any person requester. ')./. him shall permit
such specimen tc co L.:.kerx.
SECTION 8: MeP.lu?: ; for control in Schco] s. teacher of
any scnool, college,
university or Sunday
School, having under his care any pupil who appears to be affected
by any communicable disease, shall promptly send such pupil home
or separate him from other pupils until examined by a physician.
The eacher shall report the case in accordance with Section 5 of
this ordinance.
A pupil who has been excluded from a school, college,
or university on account of having been affected with or exposed
to a communicable disease shall not be re-admitted to school with-
out a permit from the Director of Public Health, except that in
the case of the following diseases the pupil shall be re-admitted
without a permit after the period shown below:
Chickenpox - after crusts have disappeared
from skin
German Measles seven days
Measles - seven days from appearance of
rash
Mumps - two weeks from beginning of
attack
Whooping Cough three weeks after appearance
of whoop
In the event of the presence of any disease as
specified in Section 4 of this ordinance, the Director of Public
Health may cause to be examined any pupils, teachers or other
persons employed in the schools, and may take any measures necessary
to prevent the spread of disease. All school authorities and em-
ployees shall conform to all rules and regulations of the Depart-
ment of Public Health for the accomplishment of this end.
SECTION 9: Method of Isolation in Various Diseases. Every
person suffering from
any of the diseases
mentioned in Section
4 of this ordinance, shall isolate himself and every person in
charge of such a person shall isolate the person of whom he is in
charge in the following manner: When the disease is:
Anthrax Measles
Cebro-spinal fever Plague
Cholera Poliomyelitis
Diphtheria Scarlet fever
Glanders Small pox
Leprosy Yellow Fever
the person affected shall be absolutely isolated.
When the disease is:
Chickenpo German Measles Septic Sore Throat
Chancroid Hookworm Infection Trachona
Eysentery(AmebicBacillary) Mumps Tuberculosis
ncephalitis Rabies Typhoid & Paratyphoid
Gonoccus Infection Syphillis fevers
Whooping Cough
the person affected shall be so restricted in movement that the
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disease will not spread from him to others.
When the disease is:
Dengue Malaria Yellow Fever
the person affected shall be kept in a scrOened room free from
mosquitoes, provided that this form of iso_.ation will be enforced
only when practicable in the case of malaria.
No person other than the physician or person in
charge of or in attendance of the patient shall enter any pre-
mises, room or apartment quarantined for communicable disease
in violation of the terms of the quarantine. No person shall
willfully or negligently expose any other to a communicable di-
sease.
SECTION 10: Placarding. When there is a case of:
Cerebro-spinal fever Leprosy Small pox
Cholera Measles Whooping Cough
Diphtheria Plague Yellow Fever
Glanders Poliopyelitis
Scarlet Fever
the Director of Public Health may post a suitable placard or
placards in a conspicuous place or places on the premiges, a-
partment or room where the disease exists, provided, if the case
is under satisfactory hospital care, the placard may be omitted.
No person shall remove such placard except the Director of Public
Health, or with his permission. There is no need to put a pla-
card on the outside of a hotel or modern apartment house. In
such case it should go only on the room of apartment occupied
by the patient.
SECTION 11: Minimum Periods of Isolation. The minimum periods
of isolation in var-
ious diseases shall
be as follows:
Anthrax -- until all lesions have healed
Cerebro-spinal fever -- during clinical course and until two
successive smears from the nose or naso-pharyns fail to show
the presence of the specified
Chickenpox - until primary scabs have disappeared from the
skin and mucuous membrane
Diphtheria - until two successive cultures taken from the
nose and two taken from the throat at least 24 hours apart,
by the Director of Public Health or his representative, shows
the absence of Klebs-Loeffler bacillus.
Cholera, Dysentery (bacillary) Typhoid and Paratkphoid Fever
During the clinical course and until the infective organism
is shown to be absent from the excreta after not less than
two examinations.
Glanders -, Human cases during clinical course; animal should
be destroyed
Gonoccus Infection - until the discharges show absence of
the gonococci
Measles - until after seven days from the appearance of the
rash and until all abnormal discharges from ear, nose or
mouth have disappeared.
Leprosy -- during course of the disease
Plague -. during clinical course
Poliomyelitis — until two weeks from onset of the disease
Scarlet Fever •- at least three weeks after onset and until all
abnormal discharges from ears, nose, mouth or suppurating glands
have ceased.
Septic Sore Throat — during clinical course
�mall_,�ox -» until all scabs have disappeared and the lesions
healed
Syphillis -- until open lesions of the skin and mucuous membrane,
have healed
Tuberculosis -- as long as the bacillus is discharged
Typhus Fever — during clinical course and in vermin--free room
Whooping Cough — until three weeks after appearance of character-
istic whoop
Yellow Fever -- during the first four days of the fever
SECTION 12: Rules gaE Food Handlers,. No persons affected
with Diphtheria, Dysentery (amebic or bacillary)
Gonococcus Infection, Scarlet Fever, Septic Sore
Throat, Syphillis in a communicable form, Typhoid or ParatNyphoid
FeVers or Pulmonary Tuberculosis, or who is likely to be a carrier
of these diseases, shall be employed or be present where milk or
any other food is prepared, handled or sold. The Director of
Public Health may examine or cause to be examined for the above
named diseases any employee of any establishment where milk is
prepared, food is prepared, handled and sold.
SECTION 13: Method of Control a Contacts. The Director of
Public alth shall have the power to isolate or
restrict the movement of any person who is kbown
to have been exposed to any of the communicable diseases named
below for a time equal to the maximum incubation period of the
disease and in the manner prescribed in Section 9 of this or—
dinance.
For the purposes of this ordinance maximum in—
cubation periods shall he considered to be as follows:
Cerebro—spinal fever -- 10 days Dysentery (Bacillus) 7 days
(unless cultures from naso—pharynx German Measles - 3 weeks
fail to show meningococci. ) Measles — 14 days
Chickenpox — 3 weeks Plague — 7 days
Cholera, Asiatic — 5 days Poliomyelitis — 14 days
Diphtheria -- 7 days un— Scarlet Fever -- 7 days
less a culture from nose Septic Sore Throat -- 3 days
and throat fail to show the Smallpox -- 14 days
presence of the Klebs-Loeffler Whooping Cough -- 14 days
bacillus
SECTION 14: Control of Carriers. The Director of Public
Health or his representatives may isolate or
restrict the movement of carriers of the in—
fectious agent for
Cerebro—spinal Fever Cholera Diphtheria
Paratyphoid Fever Typhoid Fever Dysentery
or any other communicable disease until their discharges are
shown to be free from the specific organisms of the disease.
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SECTION 15: Removal to Hospital of Certain Cases. When in the
opinion of the Director of Public Health, proper
isolation or quarantine of a person affected with,
or a contact, or carrier of any of the diseases mentioned in
Section 4 of this Ordinance, is not or cannot be properly carried
out on the premises occupied by such person, the Director of
Public Health may cause such person to be removed to a hospital
or other proper place designated by the Director of Public Health.
SECTION. 16: Precautions of Attendants: The physician or any
other person permitted to visit a person affected
with communicable disease shall practice such mea-
sures of personal cleansing, disinfecting and all other pre-
cautions necessary to prevent the spread of the disease to others.
SECTION 17: Disinfection. When any person is affected with a
communicable disease, adequate disinfection shall
begin at its onset and continue until its termina-
tion. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health to
give specific instructions to the person attending a case or
suspected case of communicable disease as to the methods of dis-
infecting the discharges and articles used by or on the patient,
and it shall be the duty of the person in charge to carry out
such instructions. No article shall be removed from quarantined
premises without a permit from the Director of Public Health.
When the case has terminated, the owner or occu-
pant shall further disinfect, clean or renovate the premises as
the Director of Public Health may require. Any articles which
in :the opinion of the Director of Public Health or his represen-
tative can not be properly cleansed or disinfected shall be des-
troyed. The owner of any premises, apartment or rooms which have
been occupied by a person affected with a communicable disease
shall not rent the same to others or permit occupation by others
until the premises have been cleaned to the satisfaction of the
Director of Public Health.
SECTION 18: Special hulesr for Tuberculosis. Whenever there is
a case of tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the
Director of Public Health or his representative tp
take such proper precautions as he may- deem necessary and to give
proper instructions to the patient and all other persons occupy-
ing the same prelimisec to prevent the spread of the disease. Every
person affected with tuberculosis shall dispose of his sputum,
saliva, or other discharge in a manner not dangerous to public
health. Whenever a person so affected is or is likely to be a
menace to the health of others, the Department of Public Health
shall have the power to muse the removal of such person to an
isolation hospital or other proper place until the danger has
been removed. Upon recovery of a person having tuberculosis it
shall be the duty of his physicians to notify the Director of
Public Health.
SECTION 19: Special uies for Venereal Diseases. Reports of
syphillis, gonococcus infection or chancroid mads
in accordance with Section 5 of this ordinance
shall be considered confidential so far as consistet
with Public safety, The professional attendant of any case of
venez.l disease shall give the patient explicit instructions to
prevent the spread of the disease to others. When such patient
refuses or neglects to follow prescribed treatment, discontinues
treatment or is discharged as cured, the professional attendant
shall immediately report these facts to the irector of Public
Health. When any person affected or presumably affected with
venereal disease does or is liable to menace the health of others,
the Director of Public Health or his representative shall have
the power to cause the removal of such person to an isolation
hospital or other proper place or to take any other measures
authorized by law which are necessary in his opinion to prevent
the spread of the disease.
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SECTION 20: Rules for Funerals. When a person dies of cerebro-
spinal fever, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, scarlet
fever or smallpox, no person except the undertaker
and his assistants, the clergyman and others permitted by the
Director of Public Health shall enter the house until after the
funeral and until after the warning placard has been removed. If
the funeral is held elsewhere than at the last residence of the
deceased, the funeral may be public provided only those members
of the immediate family may attend who in the opinion of the
Director of Public Health are free from infection and to whom he
has given permission so to do.
SECTION 21: Disease of Animals. Any veteritbary or other
person in charge of an animal affected or pre-
sumably affected with any disease communicable
to human beings shall immediately notify the Director of Public
Health. Whenever there is reason to believe that any animal has
rabies such animal and all otIlers bitten by it shall be securely
confined by the owner or person in charge for such a time as is
necessary to determine whether the disease exists. Every animal
which has rabies shall be disposed of to the satisfaction of the
Director of Public Health. The Director of Public Health shall
have the power to require the muzzling of all dogs appearing on
public highways, and may call upon the police department to en-
force this rule.
SECTION 22: Special Powers for Emergencies. In an emergency,
including the occurrence of any rare or unusual
disease or when any disease becomes unusually pre-
valent, the Director of Public Health shall have the power to
employ any measures necessary for the protection of the public
health and with the approval of the City Manager, to make such
expenditure as may be necessary for such purpose._
SECTION 23: Prohib,.tion of Common Articles Dangerous to Health:
The use of common drinking cups or other drinking
or eating utensils or of common towels, or any
other article for common use which might spread communicable dis-
ease is forbidden in the City of ;iami Beach. The term "common"
as used in this section shall mean for use of more than one
person without proper cleansing and disinfection by methods ap-
proved by the Director of Public Health.
SECTION 24: Milk and Water Inspection. All milk and water
companies engaged in supplying residents of Miami
Beach with their respective commodities shall be
required to furnish certified reports bi-monthly, said reports
containing a complete bacteriological analysis which will require
the approving signature of the City Health Officer. Refusal or
violation of this requirement on the part of the several companies
concerned would be sufficient warrant to prohibit distribution of
their respective wares. At least one sample a week of each type
of milk delivered in Miami Beach will be taken by the City In-
spector for laboratory analysis. Only milk from farms and plants
conforming with current sanitary provisions of the U. S. Public
Health Service Standard Milk Ordinance to be sold in the City of
Miami Beach.
SECTION 25: Vital Statistics. There shall be a division of
vital statistics in the City of Miami Beach for
recording of births and deaths and the reporting
of communicable diseases.
SECTION 26: Any person or persons serving the public as food
handlers, as dispensers of drinks of any kind, as
a barber, beauty parlor operator, manicurist,
masseur, masseuse or as custodian or handler of bathing suits in
a bath house or bathing pavilion, and other occupations whereby
the health of the public may be endangered, shall procure from
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a licensed and practicing physician of this City approved by the
Director of Public Health, a health certificate every six months,
which certificate shall be displayed in a conspicuous place at
his place of employent:
SECTION 27: The operator or proprietor of any hotel, boarding
house, apartment building, restaurant., cafe, place
where drinks are dispensed, barber shop, beauty
parlor or other place of business where the health of the public
may be endangered, shall not employ, retain or continue in his
employ any person who can not show at any time a certificate of
physical examination, including a Wasserman, or other approved
blood test for syphillis, signed by a licensed medical physician
of Miami Beach approved by the Director of Public Health, to the
effect that such person is free from any disease that might be
communicated to patrons, guests, or tenants. Said certificate of
good health shall have been issued within the preceding six months
on a form approved by the Director of Public Health, Providing
that no portion of this section shall preclude the re-examination
pf any employee at any time when deemed advisable by the Di-
rector of Public Health.
SECTION 28: That for the purpose of this ordinance, the word
"food" is hereby defined to mean all articles used
for food, drink., confectionery or condiment, by
man, whether simple, mixed or compound. The word "drug" is here-
by defined as to mean all medicines and preparations recognized in
the United States Pharnacopeia or National Formulary for internal
or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances in-
tended to be used for the cure, mitigation or prevention of dis-
ease of man or animals. The term "food handler" is hereby de..
fined to mean any person whose duties bring him in contact with
foods, whereby such handling might convey disease to the con-
sumer. The term "food establishment" is hereby defined to mean
any place where foods are sold, kept, stored, offered or exposed
for sale, manufactured, slaughtered, prepared or processed.
SECTION 29: All food establishments and grocery stores shall be
properly lighted and ventilated, free from dampness,
clean, and free from all kind of dirt, refuse, rub-
bish, useless or offensive material, ants, roaches, rats, mice or
other vermin, and all windows and doors therein shall be fitted
with screens of not less than No. 16 wire mesh, each door to be
provided with a self-closing device, or properly protected by
Standard ceiling fans, not under 32 inches.
SECTION 30: The walls and ceilings of any room or place where
foods are prepared, compounded, manufactured or
processed and such places used for slaughtering,
killing and dressing of animals, fish, fowl and game used for
food shall be of smooth, hard material, kept in good repair,
clean and in a sanitary condition, and painted with oil paint
in white or light colors, and the floors thereof shall be smooth
and watertight, and shall be kept in good repair, clean and sani-
tary. The floor of a place used for slaughtering or dressing any
animal, fish or fowl, or for manufacturing, cleaning, washing,
preparing, canning or bottling of food products, such as vege-
tables, fruit, salad dressing, potato chips, meat products, soda
water, soda pop, ice cream, dairy products, vinegar; syrup ex-
tracts, beverages, jelly, jams ar marmalade, shall be of concrete
or other impervious material and the side walls shall be of con-
crete or other impervious material or wainscoted with such mater-
ial to a height of at least four feet, Where concrete or other
impervious floors are required, such floors shall be constructed
so as to facilitate proper drainage to drain pipe,. traps and
catch basins, and such drainings shall be disposed of in con--
.ormity with the plumbing regulations governing same.
SECTION 31: No part of any food establishment shall be used
for sleeping purposes or for the stabling or hous-
ing of any animal or animals, live fowl or fowls,
unless such room or rooms, place or places, are separated there-
from by solid, impenetrable walls, free from doors, windows, or
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any other opening of any kind whatsoever. Live fowls shall be
housed separate and apart from any room used as a grocery, meat
market or other food establishment.
SECTION 32: All food products such as bakery goods, cones,
candy, sugar for table use, cheese or any other
food not ordinarily cooked, peeled or washed be-
fore being eaten shall be so stored or displayed as to be pro-
tected from dust, flies, vermin, handling, droplet infection,
overhead leakage and other contamination.
SECTION 33: There shall be sufficient facilities for proper
refrigeration at a temperature of no higher than
4-$ degrees Fahrenheit, and all refrigerators, ice
boxes and appurtenances thereto used in any manner in connection
with a food establishment shall be kept in good repair, clean and
sanitary and the water therefrom shall be disposed of in conform-
ity with the plumbing regulations governing same
SECTION 34: Garbage must be placed in approved water tight
galvanized iron metal containers with handles,
and shall be kept covered with close fitting
galvanized iron lids. There shall be a sufficient number of
containers to care for all garbage accumulating between collectins
The containers shall be kept in enclosed structures at all times.
The Sanitary Department has the authority to regulate the size
of container. Garbage dropped on the ground because of filling
the cans too full will be considered as nuisance. The City does
not furnish garbage cans, they must be furnished by the owner or
manager or tenant.
SECTION 35: No food shall be deposited on or allowed to remain
less than eighteen (l8) inches from the surface of
the floor, ground or sidewalk, when exhibited, un-
less the same shall be contained in tight boxes or other recep-
tacles adequately protected from contamination. Newspapers shall
not be used for wrapping foods nor for covers on tables, shelves,
drawers, etc. , nor in any manner come in contact with foodstuffs.
SECTION 36: No food shall be exhibited, stored, or kept on the
outside of any store, in any doorway, yard, side-
walk, areaway, or public thoroughfare except as
provided for in Section 51 of this ordinance.
SECTION 37: All food handlers shall wear clean outer garments
and keep their persons scrupulously clean at all
times, and shall have identification cards and
certificates of good health.
SECTION 3g: All machinery, utensils, tools, meat blocks, tables
and other fixtures shall be kept clean, sanitary
and in good repair, having fans over same at all
times.,
SECTION 39: Ample hot and cold running water or other means
satisfactory to the Department of Public Health
shall be provided for the proper cleansing of All
food establishments and of all equipment therein.
SECTION 40: A sufficient number of open seat flush toilets,
wash rooms and dressing rooms shall be provided
and conveniently located for all employees, and
no toilet shall be located in or immediately connected with
any room of a food establishment, and shall ventilate to the
outside of the building. Every restaurant having a greater floor
area than 300 square feet in the room or rooms in which meals are
served shall have at least one toilet and one lavatory for each
sex and one for colored persons._ For restaurants having a total
floor area of not exceeding 300 square feet in the room or rooms
in which meals are served, only one toilet for each sex is re-
quired. No water closet compartment may open directly into any
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dining room, kitchen, kitchen store room or pantry; said com-
partments must open into hallways, or into ante-rooms or vesti-
bules which may be used as washrooms. In addition to the door
at the water closet compartment, there shall be a self closing
door between the ante-room and the rooms herein above named. All
toilet rooms shall be kept clean and in good repair, with wash-
bowls, soap, toilet paper, and individual towels, Common towels
and common drinking cups are prohibited. All employees before
beginning work and after, visiting toilet rooms shall wash hands
and arms thoroughly with soap in clean water.
SECTION 41: Cellars or basements shall not be used as food
establishments for either manufacturing, preparing,
storing or selling foodstuffs, unless approved by
the Department of Public Health.
SECTION 42: Adequate grease traps shall be installed in all
food establishments where fat or oils are used
in cooking or preparing foodstuffs, and shall be
kept skimmed to properly function as required by Plumbing regula-.
tions. All ventilating and exhaust systems shall be constructed
so as not to exhaust out any street or alley but to be carried
up to the roof.
SECTION 43: All dishes, glasses, knives, forks, spoons and
other utensils, or articles used in the preparation
and service of food or drink, after being so used
shall be thoroughly washed in hot water and with soap or suitable
cleansing agent and then shall be sterilized by being exposed to
live steam or boiling water (proprietor shall be supplied with
at least one accurate thermometer) at a temperature of not less
than one hundred and seventy (170) degrees Fahrenheit for a
period of two (2) minutes or by being placed in an antiseptic
solution approved by the Department of Public Health, and then
rinsed in clean water. However, in lieu of the above require-
ments, or when it is found impossible or inexpedient to use live
steam or boiling water, sterile dishes, cups, spoons manufactured
from paper, wood or any other suitable material, which have been
kept in dust--proof containers before using, may be used for one
service only. These shall be destroyed when removed from the
service counter. In all fruit juice stands or bars where hot
water is not available it is permissible to use cold water pro-
vided the glasses are washed in a three compartment sink,, one
compartment for washing with soap, one with a clear water for
rinsing, and one compartment to contain a chlorine solution,
containing 100 parts per million of free chlorine.
SECTION !-: The use of straws, sugar and toothpicks in open
containers not protected from contamination by
people, dust, vermin, insects and other contamina-
ting agencies is prohibited..
SECTION 45: All ranges, stoves and ovens shall be provided with
ventilating hoods and piped or other approved
mechanical means for ventilating the room or place
they occupy when adequate ventilation can not be secured by other
means and shall be kept clean and sanitary. The exhaust pipe
shall extend above the roof but shall not exhaust on to any street
or alley.
SECTION 4-6: Foods individually served to customers, or foods
handled or partly consumed by customers and then
returned to the kitchen or serving room shall not
be served again.
SECTION 47: Nothing but clean, fresh cloths shall be used for
wiping and drying dishes, glasses and other utensils
or be permitted to come in contact with any food
stuff.
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SECTION L1. : Milk must be kept ,,pproperly refrigerated and shall
be served from individual and original bottle only.
All milk served at any public place shall be grade
"A" Pasteurized or Certified Pasteurized.
SECTION 4.9: None other than Federal, or approved State, County
or Municipally inspected, aid branded meat or meat
products except fish and poultry shall be had in
possession with intent to sell, offered or exposed for sale, sold
or served in the City of Miami Beach. Peddling or the selling
of any meat, or meat products is prohibited upon any public tho-
roughfare, sidewalk, open lot, or other place that does not com-
ply with the sections of this ordinance governing food establish-
ments. Federal Bureau of Animal Industry Regulations shall
govern all disposition of meat and meat products.
SECTION 50: Peddling of fruits and vegetables shall be done
only from screened vehicles approved by the Depart-
ment of Public Health. . All foods conveyed through
the Streets of Miami Beach except those which are habitually
peeled or cooked before eating shall be protected from dust, dirt,
flies, and other insects by clean covers or other approved method,
and all conveyances, baskets, boxes or other receptacles in which
food products are transported shall at all times be kept in a
clean and sanitary condition.
SECTION 51: Food stuffs such as meat, fish, bakery goods, con-
fectionery, fresh or dried fruits, pickled goods,
preserves, etc. , that are to be eaten unpeeled or
uncooked or which are not wrapped in a sanitary approved wrapper,
shall be protected by approved method from dust, dirt, public
handling, and other forms of contamination.
SECTION 52: Any vehicle commercially used for transporting
or delivery of food except that of an Express
Company, or transfer Company, shall have painted
on both sides thereof plainly and legibly in letters no smaller
than one and one-half inch in height, the kind of business to-
gether with the owners ' or firm' s name and address.
A -- Every business place, in a business district, where
food is sold shall have the owner or firm' s name and
street number painted on the front of the business in
letters not less than two inches in height.
SECTION 53: The Department of Public Health shall have authori-
ty to forbid the sale of any food or drug, whether
local or foreign production, which is produced or
handled in any manner under unsanitary conditions. Where foreign
inspection is necessary the cost of such inspection shall be paid
in advance to the City of Miami Beach by the person or persons
applying for such inspection.
SECTION 54+: It shall be unlawful to open up or operate any
food establishment without first complying with
the Zoning Ordinance setting forth the nature of
the business and the kind of license required.
A w No occupational license shall be issued to food es-
tablishments where foods are sold, kept, stored, offered
or exposed for sale, manufactured, slaughtered, prepared
or handled in any manner before such application for
license has been approved by the Department of Public
Health.
B -. Before issuance of any building, plumbing or electrical
permit covering establishments where food is kept, pre-
pared, handled or sold, the approval of the Department
of Public Health shall be secured before such permit
shall be issued.
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SECTION 55: No person within the City of Miami Beach shall
manufacture for sale therein, have in possession
with intent to sell, offer or expose for sale,
sell, transport, or deliver any article of food or drug which is
adulterated or mis-branded within the meaning of Federal Food
Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, as amended,
SECTION 56: The rules and regu] ions for the enforcement of
the Federal Food and Drugs Act, embodied in
Service and Regulatory Announcements, Food and
Drug No. 1; Food, Drug Insecticide administration, United States
Department of Agriculture are hereby adopted, together with such
rules and regulations as the Director of Public Health with the
concurrence of the City Manager shall make or cause to be made
from time to time.
SECTION 57: The definitions and standards issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture, by the Food, Drug
and Insecticide Administration of that Department,
by the State of Florida, or by the City of Miami Beach shall be
used as guides in the enforcement of this ordinance.
(a) For the purpose of this ordinance fresh oysters show-
ing more than ten percent (10%) of free liquor or
having a Bacillus coli score of more than fifty (50)
or showing any indication of the presence of harmful
bacteria shall be considered to be adulterated.
(b) Ice cream mix is the product made from milk, cream,
and other milk products, and sugar ( sucrose), with
or without the addition of eggs, harmless flavoring
materials, harmless vegetable, colors or certified
coal-tar colors, gelatin or vegetable gums, such
gelatin or gum in amount not to exceed five-tenths
of one percent of the weight of the mix. It shall
be pasteurized by being heated to a temperature of
150 degrees Fahrenheit and held at said temperature
for thirty minutes, or by flash pasteurization of
185 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) Ice Cream is the product made by freeing ice -cream
mix. Ice Cream shall contain not less than ten per-
cent pf the milk fat.
(d) Fruit Ice Cream is the product made by freezing Ice
Cream Mix with the addition of clean, sound, mature
fruit. Fruit Ice Cream shall contain not less than
eight percent of milk fat.
(e) )Nut Ice Cream is the product made by freezing Ice
-Cream Mix with the addition of clean, sound, non-
rancid nuts. Nut ice cream shall contain not less
than eight percent of milk fat.
(f) The terms "Custard", "Egg-nog" , and similar terms
denoting the presence of egg, shall not be used in
connection with frozen products unless such frozen
products contain substantial amounts of eggs.
(g) Any frozen product that does not comply with the defi-
nitions and standard here in before stated shall have
plainly printed on each package, either wholesale or
retail; the common names of the ingredients contained
therein and shall not be sold under the name of Ice
cream.
SECTION 58: The Director of Public Health, his inspectors or
other employees acting under his direction and
supervision shall have the right at any time and
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all reasonable t;ms 3 to enter upon, or, in any premises where X - °1t`.
articles of fooet t _v.s, to examine and to inspect such ar-
ticles of food or d:.a', and to appropriate a reasonable portion
of any such food off rtrbg product for the purpose of use as sam-
ples for inspection or test.
SECTION 59: Any article of food or drug which the Director of
Pub, i o Health, his inspectors or the employees
acting under his direction or supervision may be-
lieve by reason of inspection, preliminary tests, or otherwise,
to be in violation of the provisions of this ordinance, shall
be withheld from sale or disposal in any other manner at such
place and in such manner as the said officials may direct, un-
til confirmative samples shall have been examined and violation
of this ordinance proved or disproved as the case may be.
SECTION 60: Any article of food or drug which is found to be
in violation of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be confiscated by or under the direction of
the Director of Public Health and shall be disposed of as follows:
(a) It shall be destroyed or rendered unfit for food or
drug use by its owner in such manner as the Director
of Public Health may prescribe and under the super-
vision of a city employee designated by the Director
of Public Health, Provided, however, that condemned
foods which may be held without creating an immediate
nuisance or unsanitary condition which would affect
the health or dignity of the community, shall be held
under an official seizure tag 02 seal for a period of
sixty (60) days, so as to give the owner of same a
reasonable length of time to file claim for any inter-
est he may have in said condomn.ed foods, or if the
violation is of such nature that it can be corrected
by su Gble and proper labeling or relabeling, such
labei. .ng or relabeling shall to accomplished by the
owne; ander the supervision of a %City employee de-
signatuc. by the Director of Public Health.
(b) In an instance whore labeling or relabeling is im-
practicable proper information as to the nature of
the article in question shall be conveyed to its
possible purchasers or consumers by suitable placards
signe Or by similar means which have the approval of
the Director of Public Health.
(c) Recon:"itioned foods or drugs not adulterated or mis-
branded within the meaning of this ordinance shall
be plainly, prominently and legibly labeled in type
no smaller than 3/8 inches height with the statement
"This is a reconditioned product".
SECTION 61: Any advertising regarding an article of food or
drug, whether by means of signs, posters, pla-
cards, handbills, newspapers, or magazine advertise-
ments, displays, or by any other means whatsoever shall be subject
to the same requirements for labels, wrappers, circulars and other
descriptive mattgr in or on the immediate package of the article
in question.
SECTION 62:- The violation of this ordinance or any of its pro-
visions or sections or parts of sectitons shall be
punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred
(4500.00) dollars or by imprisonment of not more than ninety (90)
days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 63:. Any person misrepresenting himself to be, or in
any manner impersonating an officer of the Depart.
meat of Public Health for the purpose of enforc-
ing or carrying out any of the foregoing sections of this or-
dinance shall upon conviction thereof, be punished as provided
for in Section 62 of this Ordinance. Public swimming pools,
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juice extractor plants, preserving plants or canneries shall
not be permitted to operate until they conform with requirements
of the State Board of Health.
SICTION 64: Should any of the provisions or sections or parts
of sections of this ordinance be declared invalid
in any judicial proceeding, such partial invalidity
shall not be deemed to affect the remainder of the ordinance.
SECTION 65: REVOCATION OF LICENSE: The Department of Public
Health of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, is
hereby given the right to revoke this- license of
any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance
until such time as the violations are rectified.
SECTION 66: All ordinances and parts of ordinances, or sections
or parts of sections in conflict with any of the
provisions herein above stated are hereby repealed.
SECTION 67: Whereas an emergency exists and the health and
welfare of said City is in peril, and this ordinance
is deemed necessary for the protection of the citi-
zens of said City, this ordinance shall be given three (3) read-
ings at one (i) session of said City Council, and be in full
force and effect from and after the date of such passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this gth day of August, A. D. , 1941.
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1st reading August 8th, 1941
2nd reading August gth, 19+1
3rd reading August gth, 1941
Posted August 12, 1941
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STATE OF FLORIDA)
COUNTY OF DADE )
I, C. W. TOMLINSON, City clerk in and
for the City of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that
Ordinance No. 605 entitled, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FLORIDA, CREATING A DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, PRO-
VIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A DIRECTOR THEREOF, PRESCRIB-
ING THE DUTIES, FUNCTIONS AND AUTHORITY OF SAID DIRECTOR,
PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF CONTAGIOUS,
INFECTIOUS, AND OTHER DISEASES, PROVIDING FOR THE SECURING
OF HEALTH CERTIFICATES BY CERTAIN PERSONS SERVING THE PUB-
LIC, .MAKING IT THE DUTY OF EMPLOYERS OF SUCH PERSONS TO
PROCURE HEALTH CERTIFICATES REGULATING THE PRODUCTION,
TRANSPORTATION, HANDLING, STORAGE AND SALE OF FOODS AND
DRUGS IN SAID CITY, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION
THEREOF, AND OTHER MATTERS RRLATING THERETO, having been
passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, has been posted by me in three conspicuous
places in the City of Miami Beach, one of which was at the
door of the City Hall in said City on the 12th day of August,
A. D. , 1941, and that said ordinance remained posted for a
period of at least thirty days in accordance with the require-
ments of the City Charter of the said City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach,
Florida, on this the 18th day o.s September, A. D. 1941.
Aal A
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