HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4125        FILED ON: 3/20/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3918

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to food service establishments..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 127A of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after the 1st paragraph, the following paragraph:-

       The department shall adopt public health regulations that require those establishments engaged in the “take out” food service business, which do not have a restroom accessible to the general public,  to install a sink on their premises for the purpose of hand washing; provided, however, that the food service business may install, in the alternative, an acceptable hand sanitizer for the use by its patrons and employees.