Chapter 5.12 — SANITATION REGULATIONS

Article 1 General Provisions

Health regulated businesses include food facilities regulated in the California Retail Food Code California Health and Safety Code (CRFC) Section 113700 et seq., which provides Statewide health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities. The CRFC allows a City or County to establish some local requirements for retail food facilities and their employees. Section 113709 of the Health and Safety Code also provides that a city or county may adopt certain additional local regulations and that a local enforcement agency has primary enforcement responsibility for the State regulations in its jurisdiction. The purposes of this chapter are to adopt regulations for retail food facilities and their employees in addition to the CRFC and applicable City regulations for health regulated businesses to protect the public health and safety in the City and to appoint the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health as the local enforcement authority on State and County regulations for retail food facilities and their employees in the City. (Ord. 558 § 3, 2019)

The provisions of the San Diego County Code of Regulatory Ordinances concerning permanent and mobile food facilities, at Title 6, Division 1, of the County Code, are incorporated into this code by this reference.

(Ord. 558 § 3, 2019)