No person suffering from any communicable disease shall be employed in or about an establishment where beverages are manufactured or bottled. No person shall be employed in such establishment during the time in which a case of communicable disease exists in the house in which he resides nor until such house has been disinfected, provided such person may be so employed if the local board of health issues a certificate that no danger of public contagion or infection would result from the employment of such person in such establishment. Persons actually employed in the syrup room or in any capacity in which they come in direct contact with the beverage during the manufacture or bottling of beverages as defined in this part shall be required to file health certificates with the Commissioner of Consumer Protection in a manner and form prescribed by said commissioner.

(1949 Rev., S. 3992; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; P.A. 86-241, S. 15; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-278 transferred to Sec. 21a-144 in 1983; P.A. 86-241 required any person employed in the syrup room or who comes into direct contact with the beverage during manufacture or bottling to file health certificate; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.