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The City of Piqua Health Department must license
retail food establishments and food services operations in the
City of Piqua. A separate license is required for each food
service operation a person or entity operates. In order to be
licensed, the person or entity must comply with any requirements
applicable to food service / retail food establishment operations. These requirements can be
found in Chapter 3717 of the Ohio Revised
Code.
To apply for a food service or retail food
establishment license, complete
the application and submit all information necessary for the
health department to process the application, along with the
appropriate fee. The City of Piqua Health Department will issue
a license when the applicant submits a complete application and
the Health Department determines that the applicant meets all
requirements.
TERMS:
"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 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 and temporary retail food establishment.
"Temporary retail food establishment"
means a retail food establishment that is operated at an event
for not more than five consecutive days. For more information
regarding a license for a temporary food service license, follow
the link on the left.
"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.
EXEMPTIONS:
The following are exempted from the requirement
to be licensed as a food service operation:
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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.
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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.
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A common carrier that prepares or serves
food, if the carrier is regulated by the federal
government;
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A food service operation serving five or
fewer individuals daily;
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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;
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A vending machine location where the only
foods dispensed are foods from one or both of the
following categories: prepackaged
foods that are not potentially hazardous and nuts, panned
or wrapped bulk chewing gum, or panned or wrapped bulk
candies
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A place
servicing the vending machines at a vending machine
location described in division (B)(9) of this
section
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commissary servicing vending machines that dispense
only milk, milk products, or frozen desserts that
are under a state or federal inspection and analysis
program;
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"controlled location vending machine
location," which means a vending machine
location at which all of the following apply: the
vending machines dispense only foods that are not
potentially hazardous, the machines are designed to
be filled and maintained in a sanitary manner by
untrained persons, minimal protection is necessary
to ensure against contamination of food and
equipment.
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Any questions should be directed to:
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Piqua Health and Sanitation
201 W Water Street
Piqua OH 45356
937-778-2060
e-mail
Health
& Sanitation Department
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