The admittance of any barefooted person to all establishments licensed by the Lexington Board of Health as food service establishments, catering establishments, retail food stores, bakeries, commercial food processing establishments, commissaries, mobile food server or any establishment where food or drink is prepared for sale or service on the premises or else where food is served or provided for the public with or without charge shall be prohibited.

No employer shall permit barefooted persons to work in food service operations.

The person, firm or corporation or his or its agents operating all such establishments as defined shall be responsible for making said regulations known to the general public and shall be responsible for seeking compliance within their respective establishments.

For the purpose of these regulations: A. Establishment exceptions. All establishments operated as public, semipublic or private swimming pools, clubs, beaches or other types of establishments where going barefoot is an occupational necessity shall be exempt from these regulations, except that any or all food service operations operated in conjunction with these establishments shall be subject to the provisions of these regulations. B. Persons excepted. All persons employed within all such excepted establishments shall be exempt from the provisions of these regulations to the extent that they shall not be employed within any food service operation operated in conjunction with exempted establishments unless attired with footwear.

These regulations shall in no way nullify the requirements of articles of the Sanitary Code or other regulations pertaining to health, disease and safety controls within all above-listed establishments.

If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of these rules and regulations shall be decided invalid for any reason whatsoever, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of these regulations, which shall remain in full force and effect, and to this end the provisions of these regulations are hereby declared severable.