Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 75 - Restaurant Food Handlers - cert. of health, gloves, hair net

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Code Sections - 26-2-25.1

1. Abernathy  38th        2. Scott  36th


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SB 75 95                                          LC 19 2243

      SENATE BILL 75

      By:  Senators Abernathy of the 38th and Scott of the 36th


                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to standards, labeling, and
  1- 3  adulteration of food, so as to require certificates of
  1- 4  health, gloves, and hair nets for certain persons who handle
  1- 5  food in food service establishments; to repeal conflicting
  1- 6  laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Chapter 2 of Title 26 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 9  Annotated, relating to standards, labeling, and adulteration
  1-10  of food, is amended by adding after Code Section 26-2-25 the
  1-11  following:

  1-12    "26-2-25.1. (Index)

  1-13    A person who, in the ordinary course of business in a food
  1-14    service establishment, handles food which is to be
  1-15    consumed by humans, other than food in an enclosed
  1-16    container, shall:

  1-17      (1) Have a certificate of health, renewable annually and
  1-18      issued by the county board of health, indicating that
  1-19      such person had no communicable disease at the time the
  1-20      person was examined for the purpose of obtaining the
  1-21      certificate; and

  1-22      (2) Wear, when handling food other than in an enclosed
  1-23      container, appropriate gloves and hair nets to prevent
  1-24      contamination of such food."

                         SECTION 2.

  1-25  Said chapter is further amended by adding at the end of Code
  1-26  Section 26-2-373, relating to sanitation standards for food
  1-27  service establishments, the following:

  1-28    "(c) A person who, in the ordinary course of business in a
  1-29    food service establishment, handles food which is to be


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                                                  LC 19 2243

  2- 1    consumed by humans, other than food in an enclosed
  2- 2    container, shall:

  2- 3      (1) Have a certificate of health, renewable annually and
  2- 4      issued by the county board of health, indicating that
  2- 5      such person had no communicable disease at the time the
  2- 6      person was examined for the purpose of obtaining the
  2- 7      certificate; and

  2- 8      (2) Wear, when handling food other than in an enclosed
  2- 9      container, appropriate gloves and hair nets to prevent
  2-10      contamination of such food."

                         SECTION 3.

  2-11  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-12  repealed.
































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