1. (a) A person may not handle food, utensils, dishes, or serving implements that are for public sale or for the consumption or use by another if the person:

   1. (1) is infected with a disease that is transmissible through the handling of food;
   2. (2) resides in a household in which there is a transmissible case of a communicable disease that may be food borne;
   3. (3) is known to be a carrier of the organisms causing a communicable disease that may be food borne; or
   4. (4) has a local infection that is commonly transmitted through the handling of food.
2. (b) A person, firm, corporation, or organization operating or managing a public eating place or vehicle or other place where food is manufactured, processed, prepared, dispensed, or handled in a manner or under circumstances that would permit the probable transmission of disease from a handler to a consumer may not employ a person described in Subsection (a) to handle the food, utensils, dishes, or serving implements.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.