Sec.19-13-F4. Sanitation at terminals and yards

Places where land and air conveyances are serviced, such as depots, coach yards, terminals, bus stations and airplane landing fields, shall be provided with all sanitary facilities essential to the protection of public health, and such places and facilities shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition and in accordance with the following requirements:

(a) Equipment and facilities of adequate nature and extent shall be provided so that the handling of water, ice and foods and the cleaning of land and air conveyances shall be carried out under acceptable conditions.

(b) Satisfactory facilities for the storage and disposal of garbage and other refuse shall be provided.

(c) The use of water of unsafe, doubtful or unknown sanitary quality shall not be permitted for drinking and for other personal or domestic purposes in any coach yard, station, bus terminal, airplane field, hangar or room where land and air conveyances are serviced or maintained. Outlets for any such unapproved water shall be posted as ‘‘Unsafe to Drink.''

(d) Places or areas where land and air conveyances are serviced or handled, including the furnishing of water and food supplies, shall have satisfactory and adequately drained platforms or ground surfaces kept in good repair and in a clean condition.

(e) In places or areas where land and air conveyances are serviced, maintained, cleaned or occupied by passengers at a terminal or yard, operations shall be so conducted as to avoid fecal contamination of these areas. Where soil cans are used, they shall be of suitable material and provision shall be made for their proper cleaning, maintenance and storage. Disposal of their contents shall be in a sanitary manner, and She water system shall be protected against contamination during the cleaning operation.

(f) There shall be suitable facilities for the cleaning and flushing of removable water coolers and constant temperature bottles in instances where equipment of this type is in use, and cleaning and flushing shall be sufficiently frequent and thorough as to maintain water of good physical and bacteriological quality.

(g) There shall be available suitable equipment for the cleaning in a sanitary manner of water filters when used on land and air conveyances, and such filters shall be properly maintained.

(h) Satisfactory facilities and equipment shall be provided at places or areas where land and air conveyances are furnished with food and drink supplies so that these supplies may be properly protected, and such food and drink supplies shall be clean, wholesome and free from spoilage, and shall be so stored and prepared as to be safe for human consumption. Foods such as oysters, clams and milk products shall not be repacked from one container to another.

(i) Interior cleaning of all land and air conveyances shall be sufficiency frequent and thorough as to maintain such conveyances in a clean and sanitary condition. Suitable facilities shall be provided at the places or areas where land and air conveyances are cleaned and shall be such that cleaning operations can be carried out without causing insanitary conditions or creating industrial or safety hazards detrimental to the health of employees.

(j) There shall be adequate toilet, washroom, locker and other essential facilities in or adjacent to places or areas where land and air conveyances are serviced, maintained, cleaned or handled, for the use of the employees engaged in this work. At all stations and terminals of land and air conveyances where public waiting rooms are provided and tickets are sold, there shall be adequate toilet facilities for the use of both patrons and employees. If such station or terminal is located within three hundred feet of a public sewer, water-flush toilets shall be installed and permanently connected with such sewer and a wash basin or basins shall be located near the toilet and similarly connected. Toilets and lavatories shall be constantly furnished with an adequate supply of toilet paper, soap and free or pay clean towels. Toilets and other facilities set forth shall be separate for each of the two sexes and shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and in good working order at all times.

(k) Persons engaged in the servicing of land and air conveyances with water, foods or drinks shall wear clean outer garments or uniforms, overalls or aprons of washable material, which shall be laundered at frequent intervals, and shall clean their hands by washing with soap and hot water after using a toilet or urinal and directly before beginning their duties and at all other times when necessary so that their hands may be clean and their duties may be performed in a sanitary manner.

(l) No person shall work in the servicing of land and air conveyances with water, foods or drinks who is affected with any disease in a communicable form or is a carrier of such disease nor shall any such person or any person suspected of being affected with any disease in a communicable form or of being a carrier of such disease be employed. If the person having administrative direction of employees engaged in the handling of water, foods or drinks suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease, he shall immediately notify the local director of health. A placard containing this section shall be posted in all toilet rooms used by handlers of water, foods or drinks. When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission of infection from any person employed in the servicing of land and air conveyances with water, foods or drinks, the local director of health is authorized to require any or all of the following measures: (1) The immediate exclusion of the employee from the handling of water, foods or drinks, (2) the immediate closing of the public eating or drinking places concerned until no further danger of disease outbreak exists, in the opinion of the local director of health, (3) adequate medical examinations of the employee and of his associates, with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated.

(See Reg. 19-13-A23.)