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Show Hew Rules Govern itinerant Cafes In State A revised set of rules governing gov-erning itinerant restaurants and stands has been sent to Duchesne Du-chesne County by Lynn M. Thatcher, coordinator for the sanitation and hospital services, Division of Sanitary Engineering, Engineer-ing, Utah State Department of Health. Mr. Thatcher advises that the State of Utah has recently adopted rules and regulations governing itinerant restaurants and stands, the regulations applying ap-plying to all units operating for a temporary period in connection connec-tion with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition, or other similar, sim-ilar, -gathering. The regulations were prepared pre-pared and adopted for the purpose pur-pose of establishing a basis upon which the operator ond the sanitarian san-itarian may determine what shall be considered clean and sanitary in the operation of an itinerant restaurant. These regulations do not pre vent cities, towns or counties from promulgating and enforcing enforc-ing comparable rules and regulations regu-lations should they so desire, Mr. Thatcher said. Rules and regulations so promulgated may not, however, be less stringent than, or contrary to those of the State of Utah, but they may provide pro-vide for closer supervision and may be more detailed in respect to any or all items as local conditions con-ditions may require. Mr. Thatcher pointed out the following excerpt from the pres ent restaurant code shall apply where a local, full-timp health department is not functioning: Sec. HI. Sanitation Requirements Require-ments for Restaurants. All restaurants shall comply with the following items of sanitation. san-itation. Before any itinerant restau rant shall commence serving food or drink to the rjublic. the owner or manager thereof shall notify the State Department of Health in order that a preliminary prelim-inary inspection mav be made to determine whether or not the restaurant complies with the following items of sanitation, and no restaurant shall open unless un-less there shall be on display an inspection report indicating satisfactory sat-isfactory compliance with all such items. This provision shall also apply to existing restaurants restau-rants whenever the ownership, location, operation or management manage-ment of such existing restaurant is changed or interrupted. For such problems and infor mation in this area, matters should be referred to the State Health Department representative representa-tive at Vernal, according to Mr. Thatcher. |