130th Ohio General Assembly
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S. B. No. 136As Introduced
As Introduced

124th General Assembly
Regular Session
2001-2002
S. B. No. 136


SENATORS Wachtmann, Ryan



A BILL
To amend sections 3709.03, 3709.05, 3709.07, 3715.01, 3715.021, 3717.01, 3717.05, 3717.11, 3717.22, 3717.25, 3717.42, 3717.45, 4303.021, 4303.13, 4303.14, 4303.15, 4303.18, 4303.181, 4303.182, and 4303.183, to enact new section 3717.07 and sections 3717.041 and 3717.10, and to repeal section 3717.07 of the Revised Code to exempt certain retail food establishments from the licensing requirement of the Retail Food Establishments Law, to modify requirements relative to wholesale food establishments, to establish new requirements for cottage food production operations and specified other food producers, and to declare an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That sections 3709.03, 3709.05, 3709.07, 3715.01, 3715.021, 3717.01, 3717.05, 3717.11, 3717.22, 3717.25, 3717.42, 3717.45, 4303.021, 4303.13, 4303.14, 4303.15, 4303.18, 4303.181, 4303.182, and 4303.183 be amended and new section 3717.07 and sections 3717.041 and 3717.10 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3709.03.  (A) There is hereby created in each general health district a district advisory council. A council shall consist of the president of the board of county commissioners, the chief executive of each municipal corporation not constituting a city health district, and the president of the board of township trustees of each township. The board of county commissioners, the legislative body of a municipal corporation, and the board of township trustees of a township may select an alternate from among themselves to serve if the president, the chief executive, or the president of the board of township trustees is unable to attend any meeting of the district advisory council. When attending a meeting on behalf of a council member, the alternate may vote on any matter on which the member is authorized to vote.
The council shall organize by selecting a chair and secretary from among its members. The council shall adopt bylaws governing its meetings, the transaction of business, and voting procedures.
The council shall meet annually in march March at a place determined by the chair and the health commissioner for the purpose of electing the chair and the secretary, appointing a member of the board of health, receiving and considering the annual or special reports from the board of health, and making recommendations to the board of health or to the department of health in regard to matters for the betterment of health and sanitation within the district or for needed legislation. The secretary of the council shall notify the district health commissioner and the director of health of the proceedings of such meeting.
Special meetings of the council shall be held on the order of any of the following:
(1) The director of health;
(2) The board of health;
(3) The lesser of five or a majority of district advisory council members.
The district health commissioner shall attend all meetings of the council.
(B) At its annual meetings, the district advisory council shall appoint one member of the board of health. At least one member of the board of health shall be a physician and at least one member shall be an individual who holds a current license to operate a food service operation under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code and who is recommended for appointment by the restaurant association serving the region in which the general health district is located. Appointments shall be made with due regard to equal representation of all parts of the district.
(C) If at an annual or special meeting at which a member of the board of health is to be appointed fewer than a majority of the members of the district council are present, the council, by the majority vote of council members present, may organize an executive committee to make the appointment. An executive committee shall consist of five council members, including the president of the board of county commissioners, the council chair, the council secretary, and two additional council members selected by majority affirmative vote of the council members present at the meeting. The additional members selected shall include one representative of municipal corporations in the district that are not city health districts and one representative of townships in the district. If an individual is eligible for more than one position on the executive committee due to holding a particular office, the individual shall fill one position on the committee and the other position shall be filled by a member selected by a majority affirmative vote of the council members present at the meeting. A council member's alternate for annual meetings may serve as the member's alternate at meetings of the executive committee.
Not later than thirty days after an executive committee is organized, the committee shall meet and the council chair shall present to the committee the matter of appointing a member of the board of health. The committee shall appoint the board member by majority affirmative vote. In the case of a combined health district, the executive committee shall appoint only members of the board of health that are to be appointed by the district advisory council, unless the contract for administration of health affairs in the combined district provides otherwise. If a majority affirmative vote is not reached within thirty days after the executive committee is organized, the director of health shall appoint the member of the board of health under the authority conferred by section 3709.03 of the Revised Code.
If the council fails to meet or appoint a member of the board of health as required by this section or section 3709.02 of the Revised Code, the director of health, with the consent of the public health council, may appoint the member.
Sec. 3709.05.  (A) Unless an administration of public health different from that specifically provided in this section is established and maintained under authority of its charter, or unless a combined city health district is formed under section 3709.051 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of each city constituting a city health district shall establish a board of health, composed of five members appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the legislative authority. At least one member of the board shall be an individual who holds a current license to operate a food service operation under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code and who is recommended for appointment by the restaurant association serving the region in which the city health district is located.
(B) Each member of the board shall be paid a sum not to exceed eighty dollars a day for the member's attendance at each meeting of the board. No member shall receive compensation for attendance at more than eighteen meetings in any year.
(C) Each member of the board shall receive travel expenses at rates established by the director of budget and management pursuant to section 126.31 of the Revised Code to cover the actual and necessary travel expenses incurred for travel to and from meetings that take place outside the county in which the member resides, except that any member may receive travel expenses for registration for any conference that takes place inside the county in which the member resides.
(D) A majority of the members constitutes a quorum, and the mayor shall be president of the board.
(E) The term of office of the members shall be five years from the date of appointment, except that of those first appointed, one shall serve for five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter one shall be appointed each year.
A vacancy in the membership of the board shall be filled in like manner as an original appointment and shall be for the unexpired term.
Sec. 3709.07.  Except as provided in section 3709.071 of the Revised Code, when it is proposed that one or more city health districts unite with a general health district in the formation of a single district, the district advisory council of the general health district shall meet and vote on the question of union. It shall require a majority affirmative vote of the members of the district advisory council to carry the question. The legislative authority of each city shall likewise vote on the question. A majority voting affirmatively shall be required for approval. When the majority of the district advisory council and the legislative authority have voted affirmatively, the chair of the council and the chief executive of each city shall enter into a contract for the administration of health affairs in the combined district. Such contract shall state the proportion of the expenses of the board of health or health department of the combined district to be paid by the city or cities and by the original general health district. The contract may provide that the administration of the combined district shall be taken over by either the board of health or health department of one of the cities, by the board of health of the general health district, or by a combined board of health. Such contract shall prescribe the date on which such change of administration shall be made. A copy of such contract shall be filed with the director of health.
The combined district shall constitute a general health district, and the board of health or health department of the city, the board of health of the original general health district, or the combined board of health, as may be agreed in the contract, shall have, within the combined district, all the powers granted to, and perform all the duties required of, the board of health of a general health district.
The district advisory council of the combined general health district shall consist of the members of the district advisory council of the original general health district and the chief executive of each city constituting a city health district, each member having one vote.
If the contract provides that the administration of the combined district shall be taken over by a combined board of health, rather than the board of health of the original health district, the contract shall set forth the number of members of such board, their terms of office, and the manner of appointment or election of officers. One of the members of such combined board of health shall be a physician, and one member shall be an individual who holds a current license to operate a food service operation under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code and who is recommended for appointment by a restaurant association serving the region in which the combined district is located. The contract may also provide for the representation of areas by one or more members and shall, in such event, specify the territory to be included in each such area.
The appointment of any member of the combined board who is designated by the provisions of the contract to represent a city shall be made by the chief executive and approved by the legislative authority of such city. If a member is designated by the contract to represent more than one city, the member shall be appointed by majority vote of the chief executives of all cities included in any such area. The appointment of all members of the combined board who are designated to represent the balance of the district shall be made by the district advisory council.
The service status of any person employed by a city or general health district shall not be affected by the creation of a combined district.
Sec. 3715.01.  (A) As used in this chapter:
(1) "Public health council" means the public health council established by section 3701.33 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association.
(3) "Food" means:
(a) Articles used for food or drink for humans or animals;
(b) Chewing gum;
(c) Articles used for components of any such articles.
(4) "Drug" means:
(a) Articles recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia and national formulary, or any supplement to them;
(b) Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals;
(c) Articles, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals;
(d) Articles intended for use as a component of any of the foregoing articles, other than devices or their components, parts, or accessories.
(5) "Device," except when used in division (B)(1) of this section and in division (A)(10) of section 3715.52, division (F) of section 3715.60, division (A)(5) of section 3715.64, and division (C) of section 3715.67 of the Revised Code, means any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including any component, part, or accessory, that is any of the following:
(a) Recognized in the United States pharmacopoeia and national formulary, or any supplement to them;
(b) Intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals;
(c) Intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals, and that does not achieve any of its principal intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of humans or animals and is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its principal intended purposes.
(6) "Cosmetic" means:
(a) Articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance;
(b) Articles intended for use as a component of any such article, except that "cosmetic" does not include soap.
(7) "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container, exclusive of package liners, of any article.
Any word, statement, or other information required by this chapter to appear on the label must appear on the outside container or wrapper, if any, of the retail package of the article, or the label must be easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.
(8) "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter:
(a) Upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers;
(b) Accompanying such article.
(9) "Advertisement" means all representations disseminated in any manner or by any means, other than by labeling, for the purpose of inducing, or that are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics.
(10) "New drug" means:
(a) Any drug the composition of which is such that the drug is not generally recognized among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety of drugs, as safe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling thereof;
(b) Any drug the composition of which is such that the drug, as a result of investigation to determine its safety for use under such conditions, has become so recognized, but that has not, other than in an investigation, been used to a material extent or for a material time under such conditions.
(11) "Contaminated with filth" applies to any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that has not been protected as far as may be necessary by all reasonable means from dust, dirt, and all foreign or injurious substances.
(12) "Honey" means the nectar and saccharine exudation of plants that has been gathered, modified, and stored in a honeycomb by honeybees.
(13) "Finished dosage form" means the form of a drug that is, or is intended to be, dispensed or administered to humans or animals and requires no further manufacturing or processing other than packaging, reconstituting, or labeling.
(14)(a) "Manufacture" means the planting, cultivating, harvesting, processing, making, preparing, or otherwise engaging in any part of the production of a drug by propagating, compounding, converting, or processing, either directly or indirectly by extracting from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes the following:
(i) Any packaging or repackaging of the drug or labeling or relabeling of its container, the promotion and marketing of the drug, and other activities incident to production;
(ii) The preparation and promotion of commercially available products from bulk compounds for resale by pharmacies, licensed health professionals authorized to prescribe drugs, or other persons.
(b) "Manufacture" does not include the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a drug by a pharmacist as an incident to either of the following:
(i) Dispensing a drug in the usual course of professional practice;
(ii) Providing a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs with a drug for the purpose of administering to patients or for using the drug in treating patients in the professional's office.
(15) "Dangerous drug" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.
(16) "Generically equivalent drug" means a drug that contains identical amounts of the identical active ingredients, but not necessarily containing the same inactive ingredients, that meets the identical compendial or other applicable standard of identity, strength, quality, and purity, including potency, and where applicable, content uniformity, disintegration times, or dissolution rates, as the prescribed brand name drug and the manufacturer or distributor holds, if applicable, either an approved new drug application or an approved abbreviated new drug application unless other approval by law or from the federal food and drug administration is required.
No drug shall be considered a generically equivalent drug for the purposes of this chapter if it has been listed by the federal food and drug administration as having proven bioequivalence problems.
(17) "Licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs" and "prescriber" have the same meanings as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.
(18) "Home" means the primary residence occupied by the residence's owner, on the condition that the residence contains only one stove or oven used for cooking, which may be a double oven, designed for common residence usage and not for commercial usage, and that the stove or oven be operated in an ordinary kitchen within the residence.
(19) "Potentially hazardous food" means a food that is natural or synthetic, with a pH level greater than 4.6 or a water activity value greater than 0.85, or that requires temperature control because it is in a form capable of supporting the rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms, the growth and toxin production of clostridium botulinium, or in raw shell eggs, the growth of salmonella enteritidis.
(B) For the purposes of sections 3715.52 to 3715.72 of the Revised Code:
(1) If an article is alleged to be misbranded because the labeling is misleading, or if an advertisement is alleged to be false because it is misleading, then in determining whether the labeling or advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account, among other things, not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or in any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the labeling or advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequence which may result from the use of the article to which the labeling or advertisement relates under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement thereof or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual.
(2) The provisions regarding the selling of food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics include the manufacture, production, processing, packing, exposure, offer, possession, and holding of any such article for sale; and the sale, dispensing, and giving of any such article, and the supplying or applying of any such articles in the conduct of any food, drug, or cosmetic establishment. The provisions do not prohibit a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs from administering or personally furnishing a drug or device to a patient.
(3) The representation of a drug, in its labeling or advertisement, as an antiseptic is a representation that it is a germicide, except in the case of a drug purporting to be, or represented as, an antiseptic for inhibitory use as a wet dressing, ointment, dusting powder, or other use that involves prolonged contact with the body.
(4) Whenever jurisdiction is vested in the director of agriculture or the state board of pharmacy, the jurisdiction of the board shall be limited to the sale, offering for sale, giving away, delivery, or dispensing in any manner of drugs at the wholesale and retail levels or to the consumer and shall be exclusive in the case of such sale, offering for sale, giving away, delivery, or dispensing in any manner of drugs at the wholesale and retail levels or to the consumer in any place where prescriptions are dispensed or compounded.
(5) To assist in effectuating the provisions of those sections, the director of agriculture or state board of pharmacy may request assistance or data from any government or private agency or individual.
Sec. 3715.021.  (A) As used in this section,:
(1) "wholesale food Food processing establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food is processed, packaged, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for distribution or sale or distribution at wholesale to persons other than the ultimate consumers. "Wholesale food Food processing establishment" includes the activities of a bakery, confectionery, cannery, bottler, warehouse, or distributor, and the activities of an entity that receives or salvages distressed food for sale or use as food. A "food processing establishment" does not include a cottage food production operation; a processor of maple syrup who boils sap when a minimum of seventy-five per cent of the sap used to produce the syrup is collected directly from trees by that processor; a processor of sorghum who processes sorghum juice when a minimum of seventy-five per cent of the sorghum juice used to produce the sorghum is extracted directly from sorghum plants by that processor; or a beekeeper who jars honey when a minimum of seventy-five per cent of the honey is from that beekeeper's own hives.
(2) "Cottage food production operation" means a person who, in the person's home, produces food items including, but not limited to, bakery products that are not potentially hazardous foods, jams, jellies, candy, apple butter, and similar products as defined by rules adopted pursuant to division (G)(3) of this section.
(B) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations that establish, when otherwise not established by the Revised Code, standards good manufacturing practices for wholesale food processing establishments, including the facilities of wholesale food processing establishments and their sanitation.
A business or that portion of a business that is regulated by the department of agriculture under Chapter 917. or 918. of the Revised Code is not subject to regulation under this section as a wholesale food processing establishment.
(C) All food products, including those produced and packaged by a cottage food production operation, and all packaged maple syrup, sorghum, and honey, are subject to food sampling conducted by the director of agriculture, or a representative the director authorizes, to determine if a food product is misbranded or adulterated.
(D)(1) Except as provided in division (D)(3) of this section, a cottage food production operation and a maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A)(1) of this section shall label each of their food products and include the following information on the label of each of their food products:
(a) The name and address of the business of the cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper;
(b) The name of the food product;
(c) The ingredients of the food product, in descending order of predominance by weight;
(d) The net weight and volume of the food product, both in United States and metric measurements.
(2) A cottage food production operation, in addition to complying with the labeling requirements of division (D)(1) of this section, also shall include on the label each of the operation's food products the following statement in ten-point type: "This product is home produced."
(3) The requirements of division (D)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply to apple butter that is produced by a cottage food production operation.
(E) Food products identified and labeled in accordance with division (D) of this section are acceptable food products that may be offered for sale at retail food establishments or food service operations licensed under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code.
(F) A maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A)(1) of this section may request that the director conduct a voluntary inspection of the processor's or beekeeper's facilities. After the inspection is completed, if the inspector determines that the facilities comply with the rules adopted by the director pursuant to division (G) of this section, the processor or beekeeper may place upon the label of each food product a seal of conformity and inspection of the department of agriculture.
(G) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following:
(1) Establish standards that maple syrup or sorghum processors and beekeepers described in division (A)(1) of this section must satisfy in order to be permitted to place upon the label of their food products a seal of conformity and inspection of the director, as described in division (F) of this section;
(2) Adopt a seal of conformity and inspection for purposes described in division (F) of this section;
(3) Define the types of foods that a cottage food production operation may produce in addition to the specific foods listed in division (A)(2) of this section, limiting those foods to only foods that are not potentially hazardous foods.
(H) A cottage food production operation shall not process acidified foods, low acid canned foods, or potentially hazardous foods.
Sec. 3717.01.  As used in this chapter:
(A) "Ohio uniform food safety code" means the food safety and related standards adopted under section 3717.05 of the Revised Code.
(B) "Food" means any raw, cooked, or processed edible substance used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consumption. "Food" includes ice, water or any other beverage, food ingredients, and chewing gum.
(C) "Retail food establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food, over-the-counter drugs, nutrients designed for use in lieu of pharmaceuticals, and products designed for use as dietary supplements are is stored, processed, prepared, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for retail sale. Except when expressly provided otherwise, "retail food establishment" includes a seasonal retail food establishment, mobile retail food establishment, and temporary retail food establishment.
As used in this division:
(1) "Retail" means the sale of food to a person who is the ultimate consumer.
(2) "Prepared" means any action that affects a food, including receiving and maintaining it at the temperature at which it was received.
(D) "Seasonal retail food establishment" means a retail food establishment that is operated for not more than six months in a licensing period.
(E) "Temporary retail food establishment" means a retail food establishment that is operated at an event for not more than five consecutive days, except when operated for more than five consecutive days pursuant to division (E)(2) of section 3717.23 of the Revised Code.
(F) "Food service operation" means a place, location, site, or separate area where food intended to be served in individual portions is prepared or served for a charge or required donation. As used in this division, "served" means a response made to an order for one or more individual portions of food in a form that is edible without washing, cooking, or additional preparation and "prepared" means any action that affects a food other than receiving or maintaining it at the temperature at which it was received.
Except when expressly provided otherwise, "food service operation" includes a catering food service operation, food delivery sales operation, mobile food service operation, seasonal food service operation, temporary food service operation, and vending machine location.
(G) "Catering food service operation" means a food service operation where food is prepared for serving at a function or event held at an off-premises site, for a charge determined on a per-function or per-event basis.
(H) "Food delivery sales operation" means a food service operation from which individual portions of food are ordered by a customer, prepared at another food service operation, and delivered to the customer by a person other than an employee of the food service operation that prepared the food.
(I) "Mobile food service operation" means a food service operation that is operated from a movable vehicle, portable structure, or watercraft and that routinely changes location, except that if the operation remains at any one location for more than forty consecutive days, the operation is no longer a mobile food service operation, but is either a different type food service operation or a retail food establishment according to the activities being engaged in and the type of food being offered for sale. "Mobile food service operation" includes an a food service operation that does not remain at any one location for more than forty consecutive days and serves, in a manner consistent with division (F) of this section, only frozen desserts; beverages, nuts, popcorn, candy, or similar confections; bakery products identified in section 911.01 of the Revised Code; or any combination of those items.
(J) "Seasonal food service operation" means a food service operation, other than a mobile food service operation, that is operated for not more than six months in a licensing period.
(K) "Temporary food service operation" means a food service operation that is operated at an event for not more than five consecutive days, except when operated for more than five consecutive days pursuant to division (E)(2) of section 3717.43 of the Revised Code.
(L) "Vending machine location" means an area or room where one or more vending machines are installed and operated, except that if the machines within an area are separated by more than one hundred fifty feet, each area separated by that distance constitutes a separate vending machine location. As used in this division, "vending machine" means a self-service device that automatically dispenses on the insertion of currency, tokens, or similar means a predetermined unit serving of food, either in bulk or in package, without having to be replenished after each use.
(M) "Board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code.
(N) "Government entity" means this state, a political subdivision of this state, another state, or a political subdivision or other local government body of another state.
(O) "Licensor" means one of the following:
(1) A board of health approved under section 3717.11 of the Revised Code;
(2) The director of agriculture acting pursuant to section 3717.11 of the Revised Code with respect to the licensing of retail food establishments;
(3) The director of health acting pursuant to section 3717.11 of the Revised Code with respect to the licensing of food service operations.
(P) "Licensing period" means the first day of March June to the last day of February May of the next succeeding year.
(Q) "Mobile retail food establishment" means a retail food establishment that is operated from a movable vehicle or other portable structure, and that routinely changes location, except that if the establishment operates from any one location for more than forty consecutive days, the establishment is no longer a mobile retail food establishment.
(R) "Farm market" means a location, registered with the director of agriculture pursuant to rules adopted under section 3717.041 of the Revised Code, where a producer offers fruits, vegetables, and other items for sale.
(S) "Farmers market" means a location, registered with the director of agriculture pursuant to rules adopted under section 3717.041 of the Revised Code, where producers congregate to offer fruits, vegetables, and other items for sale.
(T) "Farm product auction" means a location, registered with the director of agriculture pursuant to rules adopted under section 3717.041 of the Revised Code, where agricultural products, including food products, are offered for sale at auction.
(U) "Roadside stand" means a place where only unprocessed fresh fruits and vegetables are offered for sale.
(V) "Unprocessed," when used with respect to fruits and vegetables, means that the fruits and vegetables are not processed beyond merely rough trimming and rinsing.
(W) A "cottage food production operation" has the same meaning as in division (A)(2) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3717.041. The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish procedures to register farm markets, farmers markets, and farm product auctions.
Sec. 3717.05.  (A) The director of agriculture and the public health council shall adopt rules establishing standards for safe food handling and sanitation in retail food establishments and food service operations. The rules shall be compiled as the Ohio uniform food safety code, which shall be used by the licensors of retail food establishments and food services service operations in ensuring the safe handling of food in this state. The Ohio uniform food safety code shall be as specific as is necessary to enable the holder of a license to operate a retail food establishment or a food service operation to determine whether the holder is in compliance with the code and what is required of the holder to maintain compliance with the code. All scientific provisions of the Ohio uniform food safety code that are relevant to both retail food establishments and food service operations shall be adopted by the director of agriculture and the public health council with each other's concurrence.
The Ohio uniform food safety code shall include the following:
(1) Criteria for sanitation in retail food establishments and food service operations;
(2) Criteria for equipment in retail food establishments and food service operations;
(3) Criteria for reviewing the facility layout and equipment specifications of retail food establishments and food service operations;
(4) A definition of "potentially hazardous" as it pertains to food in retail food establishments and to food in food service operations;
(5) Criteria to be used in evaluating the primary business of a person or government entity for purposes of determining whether the person or entity should be licensed as a retail food establishment or food service operation.
(B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, if a model food code is established by the United States food and drug administration, the Ohio uniform food safety code shall be based on the most current version of the food and drug administration's model food code. If the food and drug administration adopts, modifies, or rescinds a provision in the model food code, not later than nine twelve months after the administration's action, the director of agriculture and public health council shall adopt, amend, or rescind provisions in the Ohio uniform food safety code to ensure that it continues to conform with the model food code.
(2) The Ohio uniform food safety code may contain or omit provisions that do not correspond to the food and drug administration's model food code if the director of agriculture or the public health council, with each other's concurrence, determines either any of the following:
(a) That rules can be adopted under this chapter that provide protection at least as effective as that which would be provided by basing the rules on the model food code;
(b) That local conditions warrant the adoption of standards that are different from the model food code;
(c) That rules more specific than the model food code are necessary to enable the holder of a license to operate a retail food establishment or a food service operation to determine whether the holder is in compliance with the rules and what is required of the holder to maintain compliance with the rules.
Sec. 3717.07. (A) A licensor shall use data from the licensing period immediately preceding the time when the licensor is calculating costs pursuant to this section to calculate the actual cost of conducting inspections of food service operations and retail food establishments licensed under this chapter by the licensor. The licensor shall calculate the actual cost of conducting inspections that are attributable to each of the following components:
(1) Food service operations and retail food establishments classified as risk level I, risk level II, risk level III, risk level IV, and risk level V;
(2) Mobile food service operations and mobile retail food establishments;
(3) Temporary food service operations and temporary retail food establishments;
(4) Vending machine locations.
(B) The licensor shall calculate the cost attributable to each component listed in division (A) of this section for conducting inspections of food service operations and retail food establishments licensed under this chapter by the licensor. The licensor shall use a form prescribed by the director of agriculture and the director of health that includes the following data:
(1) A list of all inspecting sanitarians who worked in the component;
(2) The total hours worked in the component by each inspecting sanitarian;
(3) The total hours that each inspecting sanitarian worked in the licensing period immediately preceding the time when the licensor is calculating costs pursuant to this section;
(4) The total annual wages or salary paid to each inspecting sanitarian;
(5) The total amount for fringe benefits paid on behalf of each inspecting sanitarian;
(6) The total travel costs for each inspecting sanitarian;
(7) The support costs for the component as determined by one of the following methods:
(a) Use of actual support cost items, such as salary and fringe benefits of the health commissioner, the director of environmental health, supervisory staff, and clerical staff, and cost of utilities, rent, supplies, equipment, liability insurance, and training;
(b) Use of a cost rate of thirty per cent of the wages or salaries and fringe benefits of inspecting sanitarians attributable to the component;
(c) Application of a negotiated cost rate and calculation method approved by an agency of the federal government for the licensor to the component.
(8) The sampling and laboratory costs for the component other than the costs for the collection and bacteriological examination of food or water samples, or similar services specified in rules adopted under section 3717.05 of the Revised Code;
(9) Funding for the component that includes revenues obtained from license fees and penalty fees;
(10) Any known increases in costs or expenses for such items as rent, utilities, equipment, and current personnel, as well as the costs for additional personnel identified by the licensor after the performance of a personnel needs analysis by the director of health.
(C) The licensor shall calculate the license fee for each food service operation category listed in rules adopted to establish license fee categories pursuant to section 3717.04 of the Revised Code, as follows:
(1) The vending machine location category cost divided by the number of vending machine location licenses issued;
(2) The mobile food service operation category cost divided by the number of mobile food service operation licenses issued;
(3) For a temporary food service operation, either of the following:
(a) Using fees established on a per event basis, the temporary food service operation and temporary retail food establishment category cost divided by the number of temporary food service operation and temporary retail food establishment licenses issued. If a licensor elects to establish a noncommercial fee for temporary food service operations and temporary retail food establishments, the category cost shall be divided by the number of licenses issued for commercial temporary food service operations and commercial temporary retail food establishments, plus fifty per cent of the number of licenses issued for noncommercial temporary food service operations and noncommercial temporary retail food establishments.
(b) Using fees established on a per day basis, the temporary food service operation and temporary retail food establishment category cost divided by the total number of days for which temporary licenses were issued. If a licensor elects to establish a noncommercial fee for temporary food service operations and temporary retail food establishments, the category cost shall be divided by the number of days for which commercial licenses were issued plus fifty per cent of the number of days for which temporary licenses were issued for noncommercial temporary food service operations and noncommercial temporary retail food establishments.
(4) For food service operations classified as risk level I, risk level II, risk level III, risk level IV, and risk level V food service operations:
(a) Determine support costs in accordance with division (B)(7) of this section. Equally allocate support costs attributable to the risk level food service operations and retail food establishments component by dividing the support costs of the risk level food service operations and retail food establishments component by the total number of risk level I, risk level II, risk level III, risk level IV, and risk level V commercial food service operations and retail food establishments plus fifty per cent of noncommercial operations classified by risk.
(b) Determine the total number of food service operations and retail food establishments in each risk level category. If the licensor elects to establish noncommercial categories for risk level food service operations and risk level retail food establishments, the total number of food service operations and retail food establishments in each risk level category equals the number of commercial risk level food service operations and commercial risk level retail food establishments plus fifty per cent of the number of noncommercial risk level food service operations and noncommercial risk level retail food establishments.
(c) Determine the number of standard inspection periods for each risk level category using the inspection time factor. The inspection time factor equals the ratio of the average amount of time per inspection for all risk levels relative to the average time per inspection for the food service operations that are classified as risk level I and have less than 10,000 square feet. The inspection time factor for food service operations according to risk level and square footage are as follows:
(i) Risk level I less than 10,000 square feet is 1.00; 10,000 square feet or above is 1.88.
(ii) Risk level II less than 10,000 square feet is 1.25; 10,000 square feet or above is 2.03.
(iii) Risk level III less than 10,000 square feet is 1.64; 10,000 square feet or above is 4.84.
(iv) Risk level IV less than 10,000 square feet is 2.21; 10,000 square feet or above is 5.16.
(v) Risk level V less than 10,000 square feet is 2.84; 10,000 square feet or above is 6.09.
The number of standard inspection periods equals the minimum number of inspections required for each risk level category multiplied by the inspection time factor, the product of which is multiplied by the total number of food service operations and retail food establishments in each risk level category.
(d) Determine the total number of standard inspection periods by summing the standard inspection periods for all risk level categories;
(e) Determine the nonsupport cost per standard inspection period by subtracting the support cost from the total actual cost of the component, and divide this amount by the total number of standard inspection periods;
(f) Determine the nonsupport cost for each risk level category by using the following formula: A x B x C = The nonsupport cost for each risk level, where A equals the nonsupport cost per standard inspection period, B equals the minimum number of inspections for the risk level category, and C equals the inspection time factor for the risk level category;
(g) Determine the maximum license fee that may be established by adding the nonsupport cost for each risk level category to the support cost per license issued.
(D) For purposes of determining costs, each licensor shall calculate by using the statewide average number of establishments inspected by sanitarians.
Sec. 3717.10. The director of health may request the auditor of state to conduct an audit of a licensor, in addition to the annual or biennial audit conducted pursuant to division (A) of section 117.11 of the Revised Code, if the director has reasonable cause to believe that an additional audit is in the public interest.
Sec. 3717.11.  (A) Each board of health shall be surveyed for the purpose of determining whether the board is qualified and has the capacity to administer and enforce this chapter and the rules adopted under it and to abide by the Ohio uniform food safety code. If the board licenses or proposes to license retail food establishments, the survey shall be conducted by the director of agriculture. If the board licenses or proposes to license food service operations, the survey shall be conducted by the director of health.
Each board shall be surveyed by each director at least once every three years. Surveys shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under sections 3717.33 and 3717.52 of the Revised Code, as applicable. The directors shall schedule and conduct their surveys in a manner that minimizes, to the extent practicable, intrusion on and inconvenience to the board.
If a survey demonstrates that the board is qualified and has the requisite capacity, the director conducting the survey shall approve the board as the licensor of retail food establishments or food service operations, whichever is being considered, for the district the board serves. If a survey demonstrates that a board is not qualified or does not have the requisite capacity, the director conducting the survey shall not approve the board as a licensor, or shall revoke the director's approval, whichever is appropriate. The board may appeal the decision to deny or revoke approval to the director taking the action. The appeal shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under section 3717.33 or 3717.52 of the Revised Code, as applicable.
If approval is denied or revoked, the director taking the action shall designate an alternative licensor for the district. The alternative licensor shall be a board of health that is qualified and has the requisite capacity to serve as alternative licensor, except that if a qualified and capable board is not available from a health district within reasonable proximity, the director that denied or revoked the board's approval shall act as the alternative licensor.
(B) When the approval of a board is revoked, all valid licenses issued by that board for retail food establishments or food service operations, whichever have been affected, shall be treated as though issued by the alternative licensor. The licenses shall remain valid until scheduled to expire unless earlier suspended or revoked by the alternative licensor.
(C) All fees charged under section 3717.25 or 3717.45 of the Revised Code that have not been expended by a board that has had its approval revoked shall be transferred to the alternative licensor. A board of health acting as alternative licensor shall deposit the fees into a special fund it establishes for receipt of funds pertaining to the district for which it is acting as licensor. If the director of agriculture is acting as licensor, the director shall deposit the fees in the food safety fund created in section 915.24 of the Revised Code. If the director of health is acting as licensor, the director shall deposit the fees in the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. All fees charged in the district by the alternative licensor shall be deposited in the same manner. Moneys deposited under this division shall be used solely for the administration and enforcement of this chapter and the rules adopted under it in the district for which the alternative licensor is acting as licensor.
(D)(1) A board that has had its approval to act as a licensor revoked may submit a request to the director who revoked the approval to be reinstated as a licensor. The request shall be in writing and shall specify the corrective measures the board has taken and a proposed plan of action to remedy any remaining causes of the revocation. The director may reinstate the board as a licensor if all of the following occur:
(a) The board pays or arranges to pay the alternative licensor or director, as applicable, for costs incurred in acting as licensor for the district and in transferring responsibility for the district to the board, if those costs exceed the moneys available under division (C) of this section for the district;
(b) The board corrects all causes of the revocation;
(c) The alternative licensor consents to the reinstatement.
(2) The reinstatement of a board as a licensor shall be conducted in accordance with procedures established in rules adopted under this chapter by the director who revoked the approval.
(E) Notwithstanding sections 3717.07, 3717.25, and 3717.45 of the Revised Code, if a board fails to appropriately respond to a survey, as determined by the director who conducted the survey, or fails to comply with information reporting requirements within the time required, the board shall reduce the licensing fee established for the licensing period that next ensues after discovery of the failure by twenty per cent of the amount that would have been established pursuant to sections 3717.07, 3717.25, and 3717.45 of the Revised Code, but for the failure.
Sec. 3717.22.  (A) The following are not retail food establishments:
(1) A food service operation licensed under this chapter, including a food service operation that provides the services of a retail food establishment pursuant to an endorsement issued under section 3717.44 of the Revised Code;
(2) An entity exempt under divisions (B)(1) to (9), (11), or (12) of section 3717.42 of the Revised Code from the requirement to be licensed as a food service operation and an entity exempt under division (B)(10) of that section if the entity is regulated by the department of agriculture as a wholesale food processing establishment under section 3715.021 of the Revised Code;
(3) A business or that portion of a business that is regulated by the federal government or the department of agriculture as a food manufacturing or food processing operation establishment, including an operation establishment or that portion of an operation establishment regulated by the department of agriculture under Chapter 911., 913., 915., 917., 918., or 925. of the Revised Code.
(B) All of the following are exempt from the requirement to be licensed as a retail food establishment:
(1) An operation establishment, other than a mobile retail food establishment, with commercially prepackaged foods that are not potentially hazardous and contained in displays, the total space of which equals less than one hundred cubic feet;
(2) A storage facility of less than five hundred square feet containing prepackaged foods that are not potentially hazardous; person at a farmers market that is registered with the director of agriculture pursuant to section 3717.041 of the Revised Code that offers for sale only the following:
(a) Fresh unprocessed fruits or vegetables;
(b) Products of a cottage food production operation;
(c) Maple syrup, sorghum, or honey that is produced by a maple syrup or sorghum producer or beekeeper described in division (A)(1) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code;
(d) Commercially prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous food, on the condition that the commercially prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous food is contained in displays, the total space of which equals less than one hundred cubic feet on the premises where the person conducts business at the farmers market.
(3) A roadside market that person who offers only fresh fruits and fresh vegetables that are unprocessed for sale at a roadside stand;
(4) A nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 1, as amended, that raises funds by selling displayed foods, if the foods that are not potentially hazardous and the display is made for not more than seven consecutive days or more than fifty-two separate days during a licensing period. This exemption extends to any individual or group raising all of its funds during the display time periods specified in division (B)(4) of this section for the benefit of the nonprofit organization by selling displayed foods under the same conditions.
(5) An establishment that offers food contained in displays of less than five hundred square feet, and that is classified as risk level one pursuant to rules establishing licensing categories for retail food establishments adopted under section 3717.33 of the Revised Code, on the condition that the establishment offers food for sale at retail not more than six months in each calendar year;
(6) A cottage food production operation, on the condition that the operation offers its products directly to the consumer from the site where the products are produced;
(7) A maple syrup and sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A)(1) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code, on the condition that the processor or beekeeper offers only maple syrup, sorghum, or honey directly to the consumer from the site where those products are processed;
(8) Any person who annually maintains five hundred or fewer birds, on the condition that the person offers the eggs from those birds directly to the consumer from the location where the eggs are produced;
(9) Any person who annually raises and slaughters one thousand or fewer chickens, on the condition that the person offers dressed chickens directly to the consumer from the location where the chickens are raised and slaughtered;
(10) Any person who raises, slaughters, and processes the meat of nonamenable species described in divisions (A) and (B) of section 918.12 of the Revised Code, on the condition that the person offers the meat directly to the consumer from the location where the meat is processed;
(11) A farm product auction, on the condition that it is registered with the director pursuant to rules adopted under section 3717.041 of the Revised Code and that only the products described in divisions (B)(8) to (10) of this section that are produced, raised, slaughtered, or processed, as appropriate, by persons described in divisions (B)(8) to (10) of this section are offered for sale at the farm product auction;
(12) A farm product auction, on the condition that it is registered with the director pursuant to rules adopted under section 3717.041 of the Revised Code and that only the following foods are offered for sale at the farm product auction:
(a) Products of a cottage food production operation;
(b) Maple syrup, sorghum, or honey that is produced by a maple syrup or sorghum producer or beekeeper described in division (A)(1) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code.
(13) Operations that, with respect to offering food for sale, offer only prepackaged alcoholic beverages or prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous beverages;
(14) Operations that, with respect to offering food for sale, offer only prepackaged alcoholic beverages, prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous beverages, or commercially prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous food, on the condition that the commercially prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous food is contained in displays, the total space of which equals less than three hundred cubic feet on the premises of the operation;
(15) A person who offers for sale only the following foods at a festival or celebration, on the condition that the festival or celebration is organized by a political subdivision of the state and lasts for a period not longer than seven consecutive days:
(a) Fresh unprocessed fruits or vegetables;
(b) Products of a cottage food production operation;
(c) Maple syrup, sorghum, or honey if produced by a maple syrup or sorghum processor or beekeeper as described in division (A)(1) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code;
(d) Commercially prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous food, on the condition that the commercially prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous food is contained in displays, the total space of which equals less than one hundred cubic feet on the premises where the person conducts business at the farmers market.
(16) A farm market on the condition that it is registered with the director pursuant to rules adopted under section 3717.041 of the Revised Code and that only the following foods are offered for sale at the farm market:
(a) Fresh unprocessed fruits or vegetables;
(b) Products of a cottage food production operation;
(c) Maple syrup, sorghum, or honey that is produced by a maple syrup or sorghum producer or beekeeper described in division (A)(1) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code;
(d) Commercially prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous food, on the condition that the commercially prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous food is contained in displays, the total space of which equals less than one hundred cubic feet on the premises where the person conducts business at the farm market;
(e) Cider and other juices manufactured on site at the farm market;
(f) The products or items described in divisions (B)(8) to (10) of this section, on the condition that those products or items were produced by the person offering to sell them, and further conditioned that, with respect to eggs offered, the person offering to sell them annually maintains five hundred or fewer birds, and with respect to dressed chickens offered, the person annually raises and slaughters one thousand or fewer chickens.
Sec. 3717.25.  (A) A licensor may charge fees for issuing and renewing retail food establishment licenses. Any licensing fee charged shall be used solely for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to inspecting retail food establishments.
Any licensing fee charged under this section shall be based on the licensor's costs of regulating inspecting retail food establishments, as determined according to the uniform methodologies established under section 3717.07 of the Revised Code. If the licensor is a board of health, a fee may be disapproved by the district advisory council in the case of a general health district or the legislative authority of the city in the case of a city health district. A disapproved fee shall not be charged by the board of health.
At least thirty days prior to establishing a licensing fee, the licensor shall hold a public hearing regarding the proposed fee. At least thirty days prior to the public hearing, the licensor shall give written notice of the hearing to each person or government entity holding a retail food establishment license that may be affected by the proposed fee. The notice shall be mailed to the last known address of the licensee and shall specify the date, time, and place of the hearing and the amount of the proposed fee. On request, the licensor shall provide the completed uniform methodology used in the calculation of the licensor's costs and the proposed fee.
Notwithstanding sections 3717.07, 3717.25, and 3717.45 of the Revised Code, if the auditor of state, after conducting an audit, determines that a licensor has charged or is charging a licensing fee that exceeds the amount that should have been established based on the uniform methodologies established under section 3717.07 of the Revised Code, the licensor shall reduce the fee it establishes for the licensing period that next ensues after the auditor's determination by an amount that is proportional to the overage.
(B) In addition to licensing fees, a licensor may charge fees for any of the following:
(1) Review of facility layout and equipment specifications pertaining to retail food establishments;
(2) Any necessary collection and bacteriological examination of samples from retail food establishments or similar services specified in rules adopted under this chapter by the director of agriculture;
(3) Attendance at a course of study offered by the licensor in food protection as it pertains to retail food establishments, if the course is approved under section 3717.09 of the Revised Code.
(C) The director may determine by rule an amount to be collected from applicants for retail food establishment licenses for use by the director in administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to retail food establishments. Licensors shall collect the amount prior to issuing an applicant's new or renewed license. If a licensing fee is charged under this section, the licensor shall collect the amount at the same time the fee is collected. Licensors are not required to provide notice or hold public hearings regarding amounts collected under this division.
Not later than sixty days after the last day of the month in which a license is issued, the licensor shall certify the amount collected under this division and transmit the amount to the treasurer of state. All amounts received shall be deposited into the food safety fund created in section 915.24 of the Revised Code. The director shall use the amounts solely for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to retail food establishments.
When adopting rules regarding the amounts collected under this division, the director shall make available during the rule making process the current and projected expenses of administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to retail food establishments and the total of all amounts that have been deposited in the food safety fund pursuant to this division.
Sec. 3717.42.  (A) The following are not food service operations:
(1) A retail food establishment licensed under this chapter, including a retail food establishment that provides the services of a food service operation pursuant to an endorsement issued under section 3717.44 of the Revised Code;
(2) An entity exempt from the requirement to be licensed as a retail food establishment under division (B) of section 3717.22 of the Revised Code;
(3) A business or that portion of a business that is regulated by the federal government or the department of agriculture as a food manufacturing or food processing operation, including an operation or that portion of an operation regulated by the department of agriculture under Chapter 911., 913., 915., 917., 918., or 925. of the Revised Code.
(B) All of the following are exempt from the requirement to be licensed as a food service operation:
(1) A private home in which individuals related by blood, marriage, or law reside and in which the food that is prepared or served is intended only for those individuals and their nonpaying guests;
(2) A private home operated as a bed-and-breakfast that prepares and offers food to guests, if the home is owner-occupied, the number of available guest bedrooms does not exceed six, breakfast is the only meal offered, and the number of guests served does not exceed sixteen;
(3) A stand operated on the premises of a private home by one or more children under the age of twelve, if the food served is not potentially hazardous;
(4) A residential facility that accommodates not more than sixteen residents; is licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise regulated by the federal government or by the state or a political subdivision of the state; and prepares food for or serves food to only the residents of the facility, the staff of the facility, and any nonpaying guests of residents or staff;
(5) A church, school, fraternal or veterans' organization, volunteer fire organization, or volunteer emergency medical service organization preparing or serving food intended for individual portion service on its premises for not more than seven consecutive days or not more than fifty-two separate days during a licensing period. This exemption extends to any individual or group raising all of its funds during the time periods specified in division (B)(5) of this section for the benefit of the church, school, or organization by preparing or serving food intended for individual portion service under the same conditions.
(6) A common carrier that prepares or serves food, if the carrier is regulated by the federal government;
(7) A food service operation serving five or fewer individuals daily;
(8) A type A or type B family day-care home, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, that prepares or serves food for the children receiving day-care;
(9) A vending machine location where the only foods dispensed are foods from one or both of the following categories:
(a) Prepackaged foods that are not potentially hazardous;
(b) Nuts, panned or wrapped bulk chewing gum, or panned or wrapped bulk candies.
(10) A place servicing the vending machines at a vending machine location described in division (B)(9) of this section;
(11) A commissary servicing vending machines that dispense only milk, milk products, or frozen desserts that are under a state or federal inspection and analysis program;
(12) A "controlled location vending machine location," which means a vending machine location at which all of the following apply:
(a) The vending machines dispense only foods that are not potentially hazardous;
(b) The machines are designed to be filled and maintained in a sanitary manner by untrained persons;
(c) Minimal protection is necessary to ensure against contamination of food and equipment.
(13) A private home that prepares and offers food to guests, if the home is owner-occupied, meals are served on the premises of that home, and the number of meals served does not exceed one hundred fifteen per week.
Sec. 3717.45.  (A) A licensor may charge fees for issuing and renewing food service operation licenses. Any licensing fee charged shall be used solely for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to inspecting food service operations.
Any licensing fee charged under this section shall be based on the licensor's costs of regulating inspecting food service operations, as determined according to the uniform methodologies established under section 3717.07 of the Revised Code. If the licensor is a board of health, a fee may be disapproved by the district advisory council in the case of a general health district or the legislative authority of the city in the case of a city health district. A disapproved fee shall not be charged by the board of health.
At least thirty days prior to establishing a licensing fee, the licensor shall hold a public hearing regarding the proposed fee. At least thirty days prior to the public hearing, the licensor shall give written notice of the hearing to each person or government entity holding a food service operation license that may be affected by the proposed fee. The notice shall be mailed to the last known address of the licensee and shall specify the date, time, and place of the hearing and the amount of the proposed fee. On request, the licensor shall provide the completed uniform methodology used in the calculation of the licensor's costs and the proposed fee.
Notwithstanding sections 3717.07, 3717.25, and 3717.45 of the Revised Code, if the auditor of state, after conducting an audit, determines that a licensor has charged or is charging a licensing fee that exceeds the amount that should have been established based on the uniform methodologies established under section 3717.07 of the Revised Code, the licensor shall reduce the fee it establishes for the licensing period that next ensues after the auditor's determination by an amount that is proportional to the overage.
(B) In addition to licensing fees, a licensor may charge fees for the following:
(1) Review of facility layout and equipment specifications pertaining to food service operations, other than mobile and temporary food service operations, or similar reviews conducted for vending machine locations;
(2) Any necessary collection and bacteriological examination of samples from food service operations, or similar services specified in rules adopted under this chapter by the public health council;
(3) Attendance at a course of study offered by the licensor in food protection as it pertains to food service operations, if the course is approved under section 3717.09 of the Revised Code.
(C) The public health council may determine by rule an amount to be collected from applicants for food service operation licenses for use by the director of health in administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operations. Licensors shall collect the amount prior to issuing an applicant's new or renewed license. If a licensing fee is charged under this section, the licensor shall collect the amount at the same time the fee is collected. Licensors are not required to provide notice or hold public hearings regarding amounts collected under this division.
Not later than sixty days after the last day of the month in which a license is issued, the licensor shall certify the amount collected under this division and transmit the amount to the treasurer of state. All amounts received shall be deposited into the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. The director shall use the amounts solely for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operations.
The director may submit recommendations to the public health council regarding the amounts collected under this division. When making recommendations, the director shall submit a report stating the current and projected expenses of administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operations and the total of all amounts that have been deposited in the general operations fund pursuant to this division. The director may include in the report any recommendations for modifying the department's administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under it applicable to food service operations.
Sec. 4303.021.  Permit A-1-A may be issued to the holder of an A-1 or A-2 permit to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass or from a container, provided such A-1-A permit premises are situated on the same parcel or tract of land as the related A-1 or A-2 manufacturing permit premises or are separated therefrom only by public streets or highways or by other lands owned by the holder of the A-1 or A-2 permit and used by the holder in connection with or in promotion of the holder's A-1 or A-2 permit business. The fee for this permit is three thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars. The holder of an A-1-A permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor during the same hours as the holders of D-5 permits under this chapter or Chapter 4301. of the Revised Code or the rules of the liquor control commission and shall obtain a restaurant license as a retail food establishment or a food service operation pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code and operate as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, no new A-1-A permit shall be issued to the holder of an A-1 or A-2 permit unless the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor under class D permits is permitted in the precinct in which the A-1 or A-2 permit is located and, in the case of an A-2 permit, unless the holder of the A-2 permit manufactures or has a storage capacity of at least twenty-five thousand gallons of wine per year. The immediately preceding sentence does not prohibit the issuance of an A-1-A permit to an applicant for such a permit who is the holder of an A-1 permit and whose application was filed with the division of liquor control before June 1, 1994. The liquor control commission shall not restrict the number of A-1-A permits which may be located within a precinct.
Sec. 4303.13.  Permit D-1 may be issued to the owner or operator of a hotel or restaurant of a retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter, or of a club, amusement park, drugstore, lunch stand, boat, or vessel, and shall be issued to a person described in division (B) of this section, to sell beer at retail either in glass or container, for consumption on the premises where sold; and, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, to sell beer at retail in other receptacles or in original containers having a capacity of not more than five and one-sixth gallons not for consumption on the premises where sold. The fee for this permit is one hundred eighty-eight dollars for each location, boat, or vessel.
Sec. 4303.14.  Permit D-2 may be issued to the owner or operator of a hotel or restaurant of a retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter, or of a club, boat, or vessel, to sell wine and prepared and bottled cocktails, cordials, and other mixed beverages manufactured and distributed by holders of A-4 and B-4 permits at retail, either in glass or container, for consumption on the premises where sold. The holder of such permit may also sell wine and prepared and bottled cocktails, cordials, and other mixed beverages in original packages and not for consumption on the premises where sold or for resale. The fee for this permit is two hundred eighty-two dollars for each location, boat, or vessel.
Sec. 4303.15.  Permit D-3 may be issued to the owner or operator of a hotel or restaurant of a retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter, or of a club, boat, or vessel, to sell spirituous liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass or from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold. No sales of intoxicating liquor shall be made by a holder of a D-3 permit after one a.m. The fee for this permit is six hundred dollars for each location, boat, or vessel.
Sec. 4303.18.  Permit D-5 may be issued to the owner or operator of a retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant or night club for purposes of this chapter, to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and to sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. A person who is the holder of both a D-3 and D-3a permit need not obtain a D-5 permit. The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
Sec. 4303.181.  (A) Permit D-5a may be issued either to the owner or operator of a hotel or motel that is required to be licensed under section 3731.03 of the Revised Code, that contains at least fifty rooms for registered transient guests, and that qualifies under the other requirements of this section, or to the owner or operator of a restaurant specified under this section, to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and to registered guests in their rooms, which may be sold by means of a controlled access alcohol and beverage cabinet in accordance with division (B) of section 4301.21 of the Revised Code; and to sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. The premises of the hotel or motel shall include a restaurant that is retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code, that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and that is affiliated with the hotel or motel and within or contiguous to the hotel or motel, and that serves food within the hotel or motel, but the principal business of the owner or operator of the hotel or motel shall be the accommodation of transient guests. In addition to the privileges authorized in this division, the holder of a D-5a permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
The owner or operator of a hotel, motel, or restaurant who qualified for and held a D-5a permit on August 4, 1976, may, if the owner or operator held another permit before holding a D-5a permit, either retain a D-5a permit or apply for the permit formerly held, and the division of liquor control shall issue the permit for which the owner or operator applies and formerly held, notwithstanding any quota.
A D-5a permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restriction shall be placed on the number of such permits that may be issued.
The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(B) Permit D-5b may be issued to the owner, operator, tenant, lessee, or occupant of an enclosed shopping center to sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold; and to sell the same products in the same manner and amount not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. In addition to the privileges authorized in this division, the holder of a D-5b permit may exercise the same privileges as a holder of a D-5 permit.
A D-5b permit shall not be transferred to another location.
One D-5b permit may be issued at an enclosed shopping center containing at least two hundred twenty-five thousand, but less than four hundred thousand, square feet of floor area.
Two D-5b permits may be issued at an enclosed shopping center containing at least four hundred thousand square feet of floor area. No more than one D-5b permit may be issued at an enclosed shopping center for each additional two hundred thousand square feet of floor area or fraction of that floor area, up to a maximum of five D-5b permits for each enclosed shopping center. The number of D-5b permits that may be issued at an enclosed shopping center shall be determined by subtracting the number of D-3 and D-5 permits issued in the enclosed shopping center from the number of D-5b permits that otherwise may be issued at the enclosed shopping center under the formulas provided in this division. Except as provided in this section, no quota shall be placed on the number of D-5b permits that may be issued. Notwithstanding any quota provided in this section, the holder of any D-5b permit first issued in accordance with this section is entitled to its renewal in accordance with section 4303.271 of the Revised Code.
The holder of a D-5b permit issued before April 4, 1984, whose tenancy is terminated for a cause other than nonpayment of rent, may return the D-5b permit to the division of liquor control, and the division shall cancel that permit. Upon cancellation of that permit and upon the permit holder's payment of taxes, contributions, premiums, assessments, and other debts owing or accrued upon the date of cancellation to this state and its political subdivisions and a filing with the division of a certification of that payment, the division shall issue to that person either a D-5 permit, or a D-1, a D-2, and a D-3 permit, as that person requests. The division shall issue the D-5 permit, or the D-1, D-2, and D-3 permits, even if the number of D-1, D-2, D-3, or D-5 permits currently issued in the municipal corporation or in the unincorporated area of the township where that person's proposed premises is located equals or exceeds the maximum number of such permits that can be issued in that municipal corporation or in the unincorporated area of that township under the population quota restrictions contained in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code. Any D-1, D-2, D-3, or D-5 permit so issued shall not be transferred to another location. If a D-5b permit is canceled under the provisions of this paragraph, the number of D-5b permits that may be issued at the enclosed shopping center for which the D-5b permit was issued, under the formula provided in this division, shall be reduced by one if the enclosed shopping center was entitled to more than one D-5b permit under the formula.
The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(C) Permit D-5c may be issued either to the owner or operator of a restaurant that is retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and that qualifies under the other requirements of this section to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and to sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. In addition to the privileges authorized in this division, the holder of a D-5c permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
To qualify for a D-5c permit, the owner or operator of a restaurant that is retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter, shall have operated the restaurant at the proposed premises for not less than twenty-four consecutive months immediately preceding the filing of the application for the permit, have applied for a D-5 permit no later than December 31, 1988, and appear on the division's quota waiting list for not less than six months immediately preceding the filing of the application for the permit. In addition to these requirements, the proposed D-5c permit premises shall be located within a municipal corporation and further within an election precinct that, at the time of the application, has no more than twenty-five per cent of its total land area zoned for residential use.
A D-5c permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restriction shall be placed on the number of such permits that may be issued.
Any person who has held a D-5c permit for at least two years may apply for a D-5 permit, and the division of liquor control shall issue the D-5 permit notwithstanding the quota restrictions contained in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code or in any rule of the liquor control commission.
The fee for this permit is one thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
(D) Permit D-5d may be issued to either the owner or operator of a restaurant that is retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and that is located at an airport operated by a board of county commissioners pursuant to section 307.20 of the Revised Code or at an airport operated by a regional airport authority pursuant to Chapter 308. of the Revised Code. Not more than one D-5d permit shall be issued in each county. The holder of a D-5d permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and may sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises where sold as may be sold by the holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. In addition to the privileges authorized in this division, the holder of a D-5d permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
A D-5d permit shall not be transferred to another location. Except as otherwise provided in this division, no quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of such permits that may be issued.
The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(E) Permit D-5e may be issued to any nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501(c)(3), as amended, or that is a charitable organization under any chapter of the Revised Code, and that owns or operates a riverboat that meets all of the following:
(1) Is permanently docked at one location;
(2) Is designated as an historical riverboat by the Ohio historical society;
(3) Contains not less than fifteen hundred square feet of floor area;
(4) Has a seating capacity of fifty or more persons.
The holder of a D-5e permit may sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold.
A D-5e permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restriction shall be placed on the number of such permits that may be issued. The population quota restrictions contained in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code or in any rule of the liquor control commission shall not apply to this division, and the division shall issue a D-5e permit to any applicant who meets the requirements of this division. However, the division shall not issue a D-5e permit if the permit premises or proposed permit premises are located within an area in which the sale of spirituous liquor by the glass is prohibited.
The fee for this permit is nine hundred seventy-five dollars.
(F) Permit D-5f may be issued to either the owner or the operator of a retail food establishment or a food service operation that is licensed under section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and that meets all of the following:
(1) It contains not less than twenty-five hundred square feet of floor area.
(2) It is located on or in, or immediately adjacent to, the shoreline of, a navigable river.
(3) It provides docking space for twenty-five boats.
(4) It provides entertainment and recreation, provided that not less than fifty per cent of the business on the permit premises shall be preparing and serving meals for a consideration.
In addition, each application for a D-5f permit shall be accompanied by a certification from the local legislative authority that the issuance of the D-5f permit is not inconsistent with that political subdivision's comprehensive development plan or other economic development goal as officially established by the local legislative authority.
The holder of a D-5f permit may sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold.
A D-5f permit shall not be transferred to another location. No more than fifteen D-5f permits shall be issued by the division of liquor control, and no more than two such permits shall be issued in any county. However, the division shall not issue a D-5f permit if the permit premises or proposed permit premises are located within an area in which the sale of spirituous liquor by the glass is prohibited.
A fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
As used in this division, "navigable river" means a river that is also a "navigable water" as defined in the "Federal Power Act," 94 Stat. 770 (1980), 16 U.S.C. 796.
(G) Permit D-5g may be issued to a nonprofit corporation that is either the owner or the operator of a national professional sports museum. The holder of a D-5g permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold. The holder of a D-5g permit shall sell no beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold after one a.m. A D-5g permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of D-5g permits that may be issued. The fee for this permit is one thousand five hundred dollars.
(H) Permit D-5h may be issued to any nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501(c)(3), as amended, that owns or operates a fine arts museum and has no less than five thousand bona fide members possessing full membership privileges. The holder of a D-5h permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold. The holder of a D-5h permit shall sell no beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold after one a.m. A D-5h permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of D-5h permits that may be issued. The fee for this permit is one thousand five hundred dollars.
(I) Permit D-5i may be issued to either the owner or the operator of a retail food establishment or a food service operation that is licensed under section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) It is located in a municipal corporation or a township with a population of fifty thousand or less.
(2) It has inside seating capacity for at least one hundred forty persons.
(3) It has at least four thousand square feet of floor area.
(4) It offers full-course meals, appetizers, and sandwiches.
(5) Its receipts from beer and liquor sales do not exceed twenty-five per cent of its total gross receipts.
(6) The value of its real and personal property exceeds seven hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.
The holder of a D-5i permit shall cause an independent audit to be performed at the end of one full year of operation following issuance of the permit in order to verify the requirements of division (I)(5) of this section. The results of the independent audit shall be transmitted to the division. Upon determining that the receipts of the holder from beer and liquor sales exceeded twenty-five per cent of its total gross receipts, the division shall suspend the permit of the permit holder under section 4301.25 of the Revised Code and may allow the permit holder to elect a forfeiture under section 4301.252 of the Revised Code.
The holder of a D-5i permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and may sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises where sold as may be sold by the holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. The holder of a D-5i permit shall sell no beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold after two-thirty a.m. In addition to the privileges authorized in this division, the holder of a D-5i permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
A D-5i permit shall not be transferred to another location. The division of liquor control shall not renew a D-5i permit unless the food service operation for which it is issued continues to meet the requirements described in divisions (I)(1) to (6) of this section. No quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of D-5i permits that may be issued. The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(J)(1) Permit D-5j may be issued to either the owner or the operator of a retail food establishment or a food service operation that is licensed under section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code to sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold and to sell beer and intoxicating liquor in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises where sold as may be sold by the holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. The holder of a D-5j permit may exercise the same privileges, and shall observe the same hours of operation, as the holder of a D-5 permit.
(2) The D-5j permit shall be issued only within a community entertainment district that is designated under section 4301.80 of the Revised Code and that is located in a municipal corporation with a population of at least one hundred thousand.
(3) The location of a D-5j permit may be transferred only within the geographic boundaries of the community entertainment district in which it was issued and shall not be transferred outside the geographic boundaries of that district.
(4) Not more than one D-5j permit shall be issued within each community entertainment district for each five acres of land located within the district. Not more than fifteen D-5j permits may be issued within a single community entertainment district. Except as otherwise provided in division (J)(4) of this section, no quota restrictions shall be placed upon the number of D-5j permits that may be issued.
(5) The fee for a D-5j permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
Sec. 4303.182. (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B) to (F) of this section, permit D-6 shall be issued to the holder of an A-1-A, A-2, C-2, D-2, D-3, D-4, D-4a, D-5, D-5a, D-5b, D-5c, D-5d, D-5e, D-5f, D-5g, D-5h, D-5i, D-5j, or D-7 permit to allow sale under that permit between the hours of ten a.m. and midnight, or between the hours of one p.m. and midnight, on Sunday, as applicable, if that sale has been authorized under section 4301.361, 4301.364, 4301.365, or 4301.366 of the Revised Code and under the restrictions of that authorization.
(B) Permit D-6 shall be issued to the holder of any permit, including a D-4a and D-5d permit, authorizing the sale of intoxicating liquor issued for a premises located at any publicly owned airport, as defined in section 4563.01 of the Revised Code, at which commercial airline companies operate regularly scheduled flights on which space is available to the public, to allow sale under such permit between the hours of ten a.m. and midnight on Sunday, whether or not that sale has been authorized under section 4301.361, 4301.364, 4301.365, or, 4301.366 of the Revised Code.
(C) Permit D-6 shall be issued to the holder of a D-5a permit, and to the holder of a D-3 or D-3a permit who is the owner or operator of a hotel or motel that is required to be licensed under section 3731.03 of the Revised Code, that contains at least fifty rooms for registered transient guests, and that has on its premises a restaurant retail food establishment or a food service operation licensed pursuant to section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and is affiliated with the hotel or motel and within or contiguous to the hotel or motel and serving food within the hotel or motel, to allow sale under such permit between the hours of ten a.m. and midnight on Sunday, whether or not that sale has been authorized under section 4301.361, 4301.364, 4301.365, or, 4301.366 of the Revised Code.
(D) The holder of a D-6 permit that is issued to a sports facility may make sales under the permit between the hours of eleven a.m. and midnight on any Sunday on which a professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or soccer game is being played at the sports facility. As used in this division, "sports facility" means a stadium or arena that has a seating capacity of at least four thousand and that is owned or leased by a professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or soccer franchise or any combination of those franchises.
(E) Permit D-6 shall be issued to the holder of any permit that authorizes the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor and that is issued to a premises located in or at the Ohio historical society area or the state fairgrounds, as defined in division (B) of section 4301.40 of the Revised Code, to allow sale under that permit between the hours of ten a.m. and midnight on Sunday, whether or not that sale has been authorized under section 4301.361, 4301.364, 4301.365, or 4301.366 of the Revised Code.
(F) Permit D-6 shall be issued to the holder of any permit that authorizes the sale of intoxicating liquor and that is issued to an outdoor performing arts center to allow sale under that permit between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday, whether or not that sale has been authorized under section 4301.361 of the Revised Code. A D-6 permit issued under this division is subject to the results of an election, held after the D-6 permit is issued, on question (B)(4) as set forth in section 4301.351 of the Revised Code. Following the end of the period during which an election may be held on question (B)(4) as set forth in that section, sales of intoxicating liquor may continue at an outdoor performing arts center under a D-6 permit issued under this division, unless an election on that question is held during the permitted period and a majority of the voters voting in the precinct on that question vote "no."
As used in this division, "outdoor performing arts center" means an outdoor performing arts center that is located on not less than eight hundred acres of land and that is open for performances from the first day of April to the last day of October of each year.
(G) If the restriction to licensed premises where the sale of food and other goods and services exceeds fifty per cent of the total gross receipts of the permit holder at the premises is applicable, the division of liquor control may accept an affidavit from the permit holder to show the proportion of the permit holder's gross receipts derived from the sale of food and other goods and services. If the liquor control commission determines that affidavit to have been false, it shall revoke the permits of the permit holder at the premises concerned.
(H) The fee for the D-6 permit is two hundred fifty dollars when it is issued to the holder of an A-1-A, A-2, D-2, D-3, D-3a, D-4, D-4a, D-5, D-5a, D-5b, D-5c, D-5d, D-5e, D-5f, D-5g, D-5h, D-5i, D-5j, or D-7 permit. The fee for the D-6 permit is two hundred dollars when it is issued to the holder of a C-2 permit.
Sec. 4303.183.  Permit D-7 may be issued to the holder of any D-2 permit issued by the division of liquor control, or if there is an insufficient number of D-2 permit holders to fill the resort quota, to the operator of a retail food establishment or a food service operation required to be licensed under section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter and which qualifies under the other requirements of this section, to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold. Not less than fifty per cent of the business on the permit premises shall be preparing and serving meals for a consideration in order to qualify for and continue to hold such D-7 permit. The permit premises shall be located in a resort area.
"Resort area" means a municipal corporation, township, county, or any combination thereof, which provides entertainment, recreation, and transient housing facilities specifically intended to provide leisure time activities for persons other than those whose permanent residence is within the "resort area" and who increase the population of the "resort area" on a seasonal basis, and which experiences seasonal peaks of employment and governmental services as a direct result of population increase generated by the transient, recreating public. A resort season shall begin on the first day of May and end on the last day of October. Notwithstanding section 4303.27 of the Revised Code, such permits may be issued for resort seasons without regard to the calendar year or permit year. Quota restrictions on the number of such permits shall take into consideration the transient population during the resort season, the custom and habits of visitors and tourists, and the promotion of the resort and tourist industry. The fee for this permit is three hundred seventy-five dollars per month.
Any suspension of a D-7 permit shall be satisfied during the resort season in which such suspension becomes final. If such suspension becomes final during the off-season, or if the period of the suspension extends beyond the last day of October, the suspension or remainder thereof shall be satisfied during the next resort season.
The ownership of a D-7 permit may be transferred from one permit holder to another. The holder of a D-7 permit may file an application to transfer such permit to a new location within the same resort area, provided that such permit holder shall be the owner or operator of a retail food establishment or a food service operation, required to be licensed under section 3717.43 Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code, that operates as a restaurant for purposes of this chapter, at such new location.
Section 2. That existing sections 3709.03, 3709.05, 3709.07, 3715.01, 3715.021, 3717.01, 3717.05, 3717.11, 3717.22, 3717.25, 3717.42, 3717.45, 4303.021, 4303.13, 4303.14, 4303.15, 4303.18, 4303.181, 4303.182, and 4303.183 and section 3717.07 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. If a board of health does not have at least one member who is an individual who holds a current license to operate a food service operation under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code on the effective date of this act, the appropriate appointing authority shall, upon the expiration of the term of office or upon filling a vacancy that occurs first after the effective date of this act, appoint an individual who holds that type of license to the board, and before that appointment, notwithstanding sections 3709.03, 3709.05, and 3709.07 of the Revised Code as amended by this act, the board need not have a member who holds that type of license.
Section 4. Licenses issued pursuant to Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code before the effective date of this act that were due to expire on February 28, 2002, instead remain valid until May 31, 2002.
Section 5.  Section 3709.05 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. H.B. 117 and Am. Sub. H.B. 355 of the 121st General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.
Section 6. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety. The reason for such necessity is that licensure requirements are posing an undue economic burden upon small retail food establishments, threatening the livelihood of those employers and their employees. Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.
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