Mountain View Municipal Code Div. 2 Permits

No person shall operate or conduct a restaurant or food establishment or sell, offer for sale, distribute or have in possession for sale or distribution any food or drink intended for human consumption in the city unless possessing a permit to do so from the health officer and paying the permit fee required to be paid by this chapter. No permit shall be required of any food processing, cannery or other food establishment licensed by the state department of health, by the bureau of meat inspection of the state department of agriculture, or by the meat inspection division of the United States Department of Agriculture. From time to time, the health officer may adopt, implement and enforce additional rules and regulations as may be necessary to ensure the proper sanitation of all restaurants or food establishments.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13; Ord. No. 2.15, § 1, 2/10/15.)

Application for such permit shall be made in writing to the health officer. The health officer shall, upon receipt of such application, make or cause to be made, an examination of the premises for which such permit is requested. If, upon examination, the health officer, his assistant or his duly authorized representative shall find such premises and the equipment therein to be in accordance with the laws of the state, the requirements of this article and the rules and regulations of the health officer and not otherwise, the health officer shall issue a revocable permit for the conduct of such business. Such permit shall be issued annually for the calendar year and shall not be transferable. Renewal of permits shall be applied for and acted upon in the same manner.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

The permit fee for conducting a restaurant or food establishment shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per annum payable on the first day of January of each year.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

The health officer is hereby empowered to deny or withhold a permit for which an application has been made, if, in his judgment, the building, premises, equipment, apparatus or reasonable facilities for the establishing, maintaining, conducting or operating the business or institution for which a permit is requested, is or are insufficient, unfit or incapable of being used, maintained, or established to comply with this section or any other laws of the city or the rules and regulations of the health officer or laws of the state. If any such permit shall be denied, suspended or revoked by the health officer, it shall be unlawful during the period of such denial, revocation or suspension for any person to sell or traffic in any food or drink products in the city at such establishment.

The health officer may suspend or revoke any permit authorized by this article whenever he finds that the holder of such a permit fails or refuses to comply with the laws of the state, this article or any rules and regulations of the health officer.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)

Permits for any restaurant or food establishment within the city shall not be transferable. Every person who shall sell, exchange, give away, abandon, or discontinue any such restaurant or food establishment within the city and every person who shall purchase or otherwise acquire any such restaurant or food establishment within the city shall immediately notify the health officer.

(Ord. No. 7.13, 6/11/13.)