{"id":"DUT-MA-019","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Massachusetts","state":"MA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Public Health (State Sanitary Code, Chapter X; enforced by local boards of health)","authority":"G.L. c. 111, ss. 3, 5, 127A; G.L. c. 94, s. 305C; 105 CMR 590.000 (adopting the 2013 FDA Food Code, 590.001(A))","instrument":"105 CMR 590.014(A)","title":"Permits: Suspension and Revocation; Summary Suspension of Permit/Emergency Closure without a Prior Hearing","dateIssued":"2026-09-28","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-28","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE","COND"],"addressees":["specified businesses (food establishments and their permit holders and persons in charge)"],"clause":"(1) In accordance with M.G.L. 111, s. 30, the board of health or its authorized agent, as determined by the board of health, may, without a prior hearing, suspend a permit to operate a food establishment or to operate one or more particular operations if an imminent health hazard is found to exist.","enforcement":"Summary permit suspension and closure; 105 CMR 590.016: fines up to $100 for a first and $500 for a subsequent offense per violation or failure to comply with an order","functions":[],"notes":"Every food establishment (restaurants, food retailers, institutional food service) operated under a permit that the board of health could suspend summarily, without prior hearing, for an imminent health hazard, the order to be posted at the public entrance; the same Chapter adopts the Food Code\u0027s employee-health provisions (exclusion of ill food employees) and provides criminal penalties for violating its provisions or failing to comply with its orders (105 CMR 590.016).","sourceUrl":"https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/massachusetts/105-CMR-590-014","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":110091,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MA","url":"/library/DUT-MA-019","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MA-019","citation":"Department of Public Health (State Sanitary Code, Chapter X; enforced by local boards of health), 105 CMR 590.014(A) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MA-019)","stateName":"Massachusetts","related":[]}