Sec. 64. Protection and Preserved of Food. All foods which require no further cooking shall wrapped, covered or enclosed in containers to preserve their freshness and prevent contamination.
Sec. 65. Use of Utensil in Handling Food. All kinds of foods, whether cooked, prepared, raw or natural should not be unnecessarily handled by the sellers or buyers and that cooked and prepared food should be serviced by means of forks, spoon, dippers or similar utensils, rather than by hands.
Sec. 66. Sale of Spoiled Foods Prohibited. The sale of any kind of spoiled foods in bad state of contamination is prohibited in the markets. All spoiled foods in the stage of decomposition shall be condemned and destroyed, the Health Officer shall issue the owners a receipt stating the quality of food confiscated. Keeping at the time, a record of the kind or kinds and the quality of the food that have been destroyed and the reasons thereof. No sale of fish or meat or goods which are subject to decomposition shall be made in the public markets.
Sec. 67. Stalls, Booths, Tables, Fixture. All foods shall be sold from stalls, booths, tables for fixtures made of or constructed according to approved plans or designs by Municipal Engineer and the Municipal Heath Officer, or their authorized representative. Those stalls, booths, tables or fixture should be scrubbed nightly and their surfaces kept smooth always so that foods or particles thereof cannot lodge in cracks or in rough places to decompose.
All persons engaged in the sale and handling or manufacture of cooked foods refreshment and drinks, shall at all times be neat and clean and provide themselves with hot towels and cloths for the cleaning of the table, stalls or fixtures. Likewise, restaurants and carinderias shall always have boiling water for washing the utensils such as knives, forks, spoons and similar objects. Equipment such as weights, cases, seats, etc., should at all times clean and those found to be unclean shall be destroyed or substituted upon orders of any authorized representative to the effect that they are not bacilli carrier of such diseases and have been vaccinated against small fox, cholera or typhoid fever.
Sec. 68. Deceptive Acts and Practices. An Act or practice shall be deemed deceptive whenever the producer, manufacture, supplier or seller through concealment, false representation or fraudulent manipulation, induces a consumer to enter sales or lease transaction of any consumer product of service.
No stallholders/vendor shall take advantage of the consumer’s physical or mental infirmity, ignorance, illiteracy or lack of time or the general conditions of the environment of surroundings, induces the consumer to enter into sales or lease transaction grossly inimical to the interest of the consumer or grossly one-sided in favor of the distributor or seller.
CHAPTER X PENAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 69. Administrative Penalties. Failure of the lessee to pay the monthly rental within the period of (3) months after due written notice will subject him/her to pay additional 25% surcharge/plus penalty of 2% interest per month otherwise the contract of lease shall be revoked.
Sec. 70. Any violation of any provision of the Code as well as other existing rules and regulations governing the operations of public market, by any stallholders shall be
