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Food businesses, market vendors have until March to register with M&CC
Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green
The Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green on Monday said that all food businesses, whether small or large scale, as well as market stall vendors and hotels have until the first quarter of 2018 to be registered with City Hall.
Chase-Green reported that businesses have been complying and registrations have begun; “the baker shops and all others that need to be certified by the Council – bakeries, provision shops, butcher shops and all of that”.
The Mayor said that as it relates to the sanitation certificate that is required by these businesses, the Council’s team of Health Inspectors has begun its inspections.
She said, “Where they would have started I cannot say for sure, because we have limited inspectors, but we would have started in some areas”.
These inspections, she said, will continue over the year by the eight Health Inspectors attached to the Mayor and City Council.
On January 6, last, Town Clerk Royston King made the announcement that these businesses are all now required to present a ‘sanitation certificate’.
King said, “It is necessary to confirm that our Public Health, environmental health inspectors have visited and inspected their premises and that they are complying with public health standards and regulations, that they have adequate number of washrooms, for example and other sanitary facilities that they have adequate and proper ventilation and that there businesses are in good repair”.
He was keen to note that this will be done at the cost of a “small administrative fee”.
Lumber yards, sawmills and all manufacturers, including food and beverage businesses must be inspected by the inspectors, as well as be registered with the Mayor and City Council, noted the Town Clerk.
This new initiative is in keeping with the Municipal and District Act, Section 301, as quoted by him. “Under the Act, all businesses operating in the City must be properly registered with the City Government, which is the City Council. We are working with our legal team to ensure that we have all the necessary things in place to encourage compliance,” he said.
Section 301 (G) of the Municipal and District Councils Act stipulates, “The Council has the authority to regulate the mode and place in which any trade or manufacture may be carried out within the City or the Town and to prescribe the conditions under which machinery…”
King stated, “At 35 it talks about the Council having the authority to prescribe fees and charges and to issue license or permits which may be subject to conditions, in respect of the doing of anything which the Council is entitled to establish, maintain control or carry on and to remit any such fees or charges and to vary revoke any such licence or permit”.
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