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The record
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Level
- State
- Authority
- California Retail Food Code, Health and Safety Code div. 104, pt. 7 (sections 113700 et seq.); sec. 114409 as amended by Stats. 2012, ch. 415, sec. 16 (AB 1616) (eff. Jan. 1, 2013)
- Issued
- 2013-01-01 Jan. 1, 2013
- Effective
- 2013-01-01
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Jan. 1, 2013 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureStanding dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses (permitted food facilities: restaurants, bars, markets, food service)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: California DUT-CA
Operative words
(a) If any imminent health hazard is found, unless the hazard is immediately corrected, an enforcement officer may temporarily suspend the permit and order the food facility or cottage food operation immediately closed. (b) Whenever a permit is suspended as the result of an imminent health hazard, the enforcement officer shall issue to the permitholder a notice
Penalty
Permit suspension and immediate closure, with notice and hearing rights (subdivisions (a)-(b)).
What it required
Made every restaurant, bar, grocery and other permitted food facility operate on the standing condition that a local environmental-health officer could suspend its permit and close it at once on finding an imminent health hazard, the sanitary-code vehicle through which county health departments enforced the dine-in closures, capacity limits and protocol requirements of 2020-2021 against food facilities.
Retrieval noteOfficial text as displayed Sept. 28, 2026; history note '(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 415, Sec. 16. (AB 1616) Effective January 1, 2013.)', so the text in force in 2020-2021 is the text shown. The Retail Food Code's employee-health provisions (reporting and exclusion of ill food employees) and the definition of 'imminent health hazard' were not separately saved and are described by category.