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2020 Utah Code
Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units
Chapter 56 - Food Truck Licensing and Regulation Act
Section 104 - Safety and health inspections and permits -- Reciprocity -- Fees.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 11-56-104 (2020)
Effective 5/14/2019
11-56-104. Safety and health inspections and permits -- Reciprocity -- Fees.
Amended by Chapter 260, 2019 General Session
11-56-104. Safety and health inspections and permits -- Reciprocity -- Fees.
- (1) A food truck business shall obtain, for each food truck that the business operates, an annual health department food truck permit from the local health department with jurisdiction over the area in which the majority of the food truck's operations takes place.
- (2)
- (a) A local health department shall grant a health department food truck permit to operate a food truck within the jurisdiction of the local health department to a food truck business that has obtained the health department food truck permit described in Subsection (1) from another local health department within the state if the food truck business presents to the local health department the current health department food truck permit from the other local health department.
- (b) If a food truck business presents the health department food truck permit described in Subsection (1), the local health department may not:
- (i) impose additional permit qualification requirements on the food truck business before issuing a health department food truck permit to operate within the jurisdiction of the local health department, except for charging a fee in accordance with Subsection (3); or
- (ii) issue a health department food truck permit that expires on a date earlier or later than the day on which the permit described in Subsection (1) expires.
- (3)
- (a) A local health department may only charge a health department food truck permit fee to a food truck business in an amount that reimburses the local health department for the cost of regulating the food truck.
- (b) For a health department food truck permit that a local health department issues in accordance with Subsection (2), the local health department shall reduce the amount of the food truck permit fee to an amount that accounts for the lower administrative burden on the local health department.
- (4)
- (a) A political subdivision inspecting a food truck for fire safety shall conduct the inspection based on the criteria that the Utah Fire Prevention Board, created in Section 53-7-203, establishes in accordance with Section 53-7-204.
- (b)
- (i) A political subdivision shall consider valid within the political subdivision's jurisdiction an approval from another political subdivision within the state that shows that the food truck passed a fire safety inspection that the other political subdivision conducted.
- (ii) A political subdivision may not require that a food truck pass a fire safety inspection in a given calendar year if the food truck business presents to the political subdivision an approval described in Subsection (4)(b)(i) issued during the same calendar year.
- (5)
- (a) Nothing in this section prevents a local health department from:
- (i) requiring a food truck business to obtain an event permit, in accordance with Section 11-56-105; or
- (ii) revoking a health department food truck permit that the local health department has issued if the operation of the related food truck within the jurisdiction of the local health department violates the terms of the permit.
- (b) Nothing in this section prevents a political subdivision from revoking the political subdivision's approval described in Subsection (4)(b)(i) if the operation of the related food truck within the political subdivision fails to meet the criteria described in Subsection (4)(a).
- (a) Nothing in this section prevents a local health department from:
Amended by Chapter 260, 2019 General Session
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