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REGULATION No. 3 EXPOSURE AND SALE OF FOODSTUFFS SECTION 1. It is hereby ordered that, except during the process of sale or while in the act of loading vehicles, no cut meat, fish, poultry, shucked shell fish, dried or preserved fruits, dates, figs, cut fruits, cut melons, cracked nuts, nut meats, popped corn, candies, confectionary, cherries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, grapes, maple sugar or bakers' products, which are intended for sale for human food shall be conveyed from place to place, or kept in an open window or doorway, or kept outside of a building or in any public or private way of the City of Salem, unless so covered with clean material and so placed as to be protected from dust, flies and animals. SECTION 2. Every person being the occupant or lessee of any room, stall, building or other place, and every person being the owner or person in charge of any stand, case, rack, bench, pushcart or other vehicle, where or from which human food is kept, stored, sold or offered for sale, shall maintain such room stall, building, or other place, stand, case, rack, bench, pushcart or other vehicle and its appurtenance in a clean and wholesome condition. SECTION 3. All persons, while engaged in the handling of articles of food in such room, stall, building or other place, shall wear clean outer garments, and shall be free from infectious or contagious diseases. SECTION 4. No room in which articles of food are prepared, kept, stored, sold or offered for sale, shall be used for domestic purposes or shall open directly into any room so used, unless the conditions of such room are approved by the Board of Health. All shops and stores, used for the sale of articles of food, shall be equipped with such lavatory accommodations as the Board of Health may order and approve. SECTION 5. The use of unclean paper for the wrapping of articles of food is prohibited. The use of any printed paper, either as an inner or outer wrapper on any article intended for human food is prohibited, except that the outer wrapper of any article required by law to be marked may be printed or stamped to meet such requirements. SECTION 6. Every peddler of foodstuffs from a vehicle, in addition to the clean covering provided for in this regulation, shall keep in his vehicle a water-tight and sufficient receptacle for the wastes of his business, and such wastes shall be so disposed of as not to cause a nuisance. SECTION 7. Ice cream scoops must be stored in receptacles through which passes continuous running water. This fixture must conform to the plumbing ordinances of the City of Salem. SECTION 8. Any person or persons or corporation before being granted a license for carrying on an establishment for the manufacture of sausages and chopped meat of any kind by the board of Health, in accordance with Sections 89 and 144 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, shall pay an annual license fee of ten (10.00) dollars. ---PAGE BREAK--- 3.