53-8-107. Toilets and lavatories.
(a) Every building, room, basement or cellar occupied or used for any food-producing or distributing establishment shall have convenient toilet rooms separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, manufacture, packing, canning, selling or distributing is conducted.
(b) The floors of the toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or any other nonabsorbent material, and shall be washed and scoured daily.
(c) The toilet or toilets shall be furnished with separate ventilating flues or pipes discharging into soil pipes, or on the outside of the building in which they are situated.
(d) Lavatories and wash rooms shall be adjacent to toilet rooms, and shall be supplied with soap, running water and towels, and shall be maintained in a sanitary condition.
[Acts 1909, ch. 473, § 5; Shan., § 3473a47; Code 1932, § 6604; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 52-1008.]