Sponsor
Alderman DeHahn
Title
Ordinance No. 19-06 to repeal and recreate Chapter 22, Article XIII relating to Business-Food and drinking establishments.
To repeal and recreate Chapter 22, Article XIII of the Municipal Code of the City of Racine, Wisconsin relating to Business - Food and drinking establishments.
The Common Council of the City of Racine do ordain as follows:
Part 1:
Chapter 22, Article XIII of the Municipal Code of the City of Racine is hereby repealed and recreated to read as follows:
“ARTICLE XIII. LODGING, RECREATION AND FOOD PROTECTION
DIVISION I. GENERALLY
Sec. 22-411. Authority.
This ordinance is adopted pursuant to authority provided by Wis. Stat. §§60.0417, 97.12, 97.41, 125.68(5), 251.04(3), 252.02, 252.03, 254.47, and 254.69(2), ch. 68, and Wis. Admin. Code chapters ATCP 74 and 75, HFS 172, 173, 175, 178, 192, 195, 196, 197 and 198, and COMM 90 and 95.
Sec. 22-412. Purpose.
(a) The purpose of this article is to protect and improve the public health and to authorize the City of Racine Health Department to become the designated agent of:
1. The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services for the purpose of establishing permit fees, issuing permits, making investigations or inspections of hotels, motels, tourist rooming houses, body piercing and tattooing establishments, restaurants, bed and breakfast establishments, campgrounds and camping resorts, recreational and educational camps, public swimming pools and in making investigations and inspections of food vending machines, their operators and vending machine commissaries; and,
2. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection, for the purpose of establishing permit fees, issuing permits, conducting routine sampling, making inspections or investigations of retail food establishments, and enacting local regulations governing these establishments.
(b) The health department is also authorized to secure samples or specimens of food and any ...
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