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| City
of Piqua Ohio |
| Temporary
Food Service |
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| Food
booth at Piqua Heritage Festival |
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The City of Piqua Health Department must license
temporary retail food establishments 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 / food establishment operations. These requirements can be found in Chapter
3717 of the Ohio Revised Code.
To apply for a temporary food license,
complete the questionnaire, 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.
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TERMS:
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| "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.
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| EXEMPTIONS:
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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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A 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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A "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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