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No person, while affected with any disease in a communicable form, or while a carrier of such disease, or while afflicted with boils, infected wounds, sores or an acute respiratory infection, shall work in any area of a food service establishment in any capacity in which there is a likelihood of such person contaminating food or food contact surfaces with pathogenic organisms or transmitting disease to other individuals; and no person known or suspected of being affected with any such disease or condition shall be employed in such an area or capacity. If the manager or person in charge of the establishment has reason to suspect that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form or has become a carrier of such disease, he shall notify the health officer immediately. It shall be the responsibility of anyone operating a food service establishment to see that all employees have valid food and beverage service workers’ permits issued under Chapter 197, Laws of 1957, and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health. It is unlawful for anyone to work in a food service establishment without a valid food and beverage service workers’ permit. Such permits shall be issued by the Seattle-King County department of public health and signed by the health officer or his authorized representative and all applicants for such a permit or renewal thereof shall pay to such department a fee in the sum of $2.00. (1961 code § 6.06.030.)