53-8-111 - Communicable diseases.
53-8-111. Communicable diseases.
(a) No employer shall require, permit or suffer any person to work, nor shall any person work in a building, room, basement, cellar or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution and transportation of food who is affected with a communicable disease that may be transmissible through food.
(b) All persons so employed shall procure a health certificate showing that the person is free from disease or diseases transmissible through food.
(c) The certificate shall be signed by a physician licensed to practice in this state.
(d) Before signing the certificate, the physician shall make examination and laboratory tests that in the physician's opinion are reasonable and necessary for the proper issuance of a food-handler's health certificate, and the tests that are given shall be set out on the certificate by the physician.
(e) Diseases designated in regulations promulgated under the authority of and by the department of health as transmissible through food shall be applicable under this section.
(f) Local boards of health and local health officers are empowered to enforce this section.
[Acts 1909, ch. 473, § 8; Shan., § 3473a52; Code 1932, § 6609; Acts 1943, ch. 44, § 1; 1949, ch. 133, § 1; mod. C. Supp. 1950, § 6609; Acts 1961, ch. 45, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 52-1012.]