53-8-102. Proper lighting, draining, plumbing, ventilation.
Every building, room, basement or cellar occupied or used as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packinghouse, slaughterhouse, dairy, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market, or other place or apartment used for the preparation for sale, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed, and ventilated and conducted with strict regard to the influence of those conditions on the health of the operatives, employees, clerks or other persons employed in the establishment or place and the purity and wholesomeness of the food produced in the establishment or place.
[Acts 1909, ch. 473, § 1; Shan., § 3473a40; Code 1932, § 6597; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 52-1003.]