Oregon Statutes - Chapter 624 - Food Service Facilities

• 624.005   “Local public health authority” defined.
  As used in this chapter, “local public health authority” means an entity described in ORS 431.375. [2003 c.309 §2] RESTAURANTS; BED AND BREAKFAST FACILITIES
• 624.010   Definitions for ORS 624.010 to 624.121.
  As used in ORS 624.010 to 624.121, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Bed and breakfast facility” means any establishment located in a structure designed...
• 624.015   [1973 c.824 §4; renumbered 624.101 in 2007]
• 624.020   License; rules; fee payment; denial, suspension and revocation of licenses; posting; nontransferability.
  (1) A person may not operate a restaurant or bed and breakfast facility without a license to do so from the Department of Human Services....
• 624.023   [1979 c.390 §2; renumbered 624.051 in 2007]
• 624.025   [1957 c.672 §9; 1973 c.182 §2; 1973 c.824 §2; 1975 c.526 §5; 1979 c.696 §12; 1985 c.573 §1; 1991 c.821 §2; 1993 c.151 §2; 1995 c.578 §3; 2003 c.309 §9; renumbered 624.086 in 2007]
• 624.027   [Formerly part of 624.100; 1973 c.825 §2; renumbered 624.036 in 2007]
• 624.028   [1973 c.824 §5; 1993 c.151 §1; renumbered 624.106 in 2007]
• 624.029   Disposition of fees.
  All license fees collected under ORS 624.010 to 624.121 shall be paid into the General Fund in the State Treasury and placed to the credit...
• 624.030   [Amended by 1957 c.672 §3; 1973 c.825 §3; 1981 c.650 §1; repealed by 1983 c.533 §5]
• 624.032   [1987 c.226 §3; renumbered 624.046 in 2007]
• 624.035   [1985 c.247 §2; renumbered 624.116 in 2007]
• 624.036   Exemption of confection operations from license requirements; rules.
  When the Department of Human Services determines that public health hazards are nonexistent, the department may, by rule, exempt certain types of confection operations from...
• 624.040   [Amended by 1953 c.177 §8; 1973 c.825 §4; repealed by 1983 c.533 §5]
• 624.041   Rules.
  The Department of Human Services shall make all rules necessary for the enforcement of ORS 624.010 to 624.121, including such rules concerning the construction and...
• 624.045   [1985 c.701 §3; 2003 c.309 §10; 2003 c.547 §115; renumbered 624.121 in 2007]
• 624.046   Bed and breakfast facility regulation.
  The Department of Human Services shall allow a bed and breakfast facility to conduct food service operations for its patrons in rooms used by the...
• 624.050   [Amended by 1953 c.177 §8; 1957 c.672 §4; 1973 c.825 §5; 1981 c.650 §2; repealed by 1983 c.533 §5]
• 624.051   Single toilet fixture allowed in small restaurant.
  The Department of Human Services shall allow restaurants with an occupancy capacity of no more than 15 persons, including employees and patrons, to have only...
• 624.060   Inspection and reinspection of restaurants and bed and breakfast facilities; posting of sign required; report; posting.
  (1) At least once every six months the Director of Human Services shall inspect every restaurant located within the jurisdiction of the director. At least...
• 624.062   [1971 c.661 §2; 1973 c.825 §6a; repealed by 1973 c.825 §23a]
• 624.065   [1957 c.672 §10(1),(2); 1973 c.824 §7; 1973 c.825 §7; renumbered 624.091 in 2007]
• 624.067   [1973 c.824 §6; renumbered 624.111 in 2007]
• 624.070   Examination of food and drink samples; unwholesome or adulterated food and drink.
  Samples of food, drink and other substances may be taken and examined by the Director of Human Services as often as may be necessary for...
• 624.073   Revocation, suspension or refusal of license; closure; sanitation score; inspection schedule.
  (1) If the Director of Human Services determines that a critical violation of ORS 624.010 to 624.121, or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto, exists in...
• 624.075   [1957 c.672 §10(3); 1973 c.825 §9; renumbered 624.096 in 2007]
• 624.077   Rating surveys; preparing and disseminating information for educational programs.
  The Department of Human Services shall make such rating surveys as are necessary to obtain uniform enforcement of ORS 624.010 to 624.121 throughout the state,...
• 624.080   Diseased persons working in restaurants, bed and breakfast facilities or temporary restaurants; suspicion of possible transmission of infection; rules.
  (1) The Department of Human Services may, by rule, define certain communicable diseases which may be spread to the public by employees of a restaurant,...
• 624.085   [1983 c.533 §2; 1987 c.226 §7; 1995 c.578 §4; 2003 c.309 §11; renumbered 624.073 in 2007]
• 624.086   Temporary restaurant license; fees.
  (1) A person may not operate a temporary restaurant without first procuring a license to do so from the Department of Human Services. The temporary...
• 624.090   [Amended by 1953 c.177 §8; repealed by 1973 c.825 §23]
• 624.091   Inspection of temporary restaurants; report.
  (1) At least once during the operation of a temporary restaurant, the Director of Human Services shall inspect the facilities and operation. The person operating...
• 624.095   [1971 c.661 §4; repealed by 1973 c.825 §23]
• 624.096   Summary closure of temporary restaurant.
  When the violation of any provision of ORS 624.010 to 624.121 or any rule promulgated thereunder comes to the attention of the Director of Human...
• 624.100   [Amended by 1957 c.672 §6; part renumbered as 624.027; 1973 c.825 §11; 1987 c.226 §8; 1995 c.578 §5; 2005 c.22 §439; renumbered 624.041 in 2007]
• 624.101   “Benevolent organization” defined.
  As used in ORS 624.106 and 624.111, “benevolent organization” means any person organized and existing for charitable, benevolent, eleemosynary, humane, patriotic, religious, philanthropic, recreational, social,...
• 624.106   Temporary benevolent restaurant license; limit.
  (1)(a) Notwithstanding ORS 624.086 (3) and (4), the Department of Human Services shall issue a license to a benevolent organization to operate a temporary restaurant...
• 624.110   [Amended by 1973 c.825 §12; renumbered 624.077 in 2007]
• 624.111   Inspection of benevolent organization restaurant facilities and operation.
  (1) At any time during the operation of a temporary restaurant licensed pursuant to ORS 624.106, the Director of Human Services may inspect the facilities...
• 624.116   When alternative food service criteria applicable.
  The Director of Human Services may declare that an extraordinary situation exists and may apply alternative food service criteria in an establishment operated to prepare...
• 624.120   [Amended by 1957 c.672 §7; 1973 c.427 §13; 1987 c.905 §34; renumbered 624.029 in 2007]
• 624.121   State Food Service Advisory Committee; appointment; composition; duties.
  The Department of Human Services shall appoint a State Food Service Advisory Committee. The committee shall consist of volunteer representatives from a cross section of...
• 624.130   Training to relieve choking; methods of training; exemptions; fees.
  (1) Any restaurant where food is served to be consumed on the premises shall require that its food service employees, within a reasonable time after...
• 624.165   Service of inspected game meat by charitable organization.
  (1) Subject to ORS 624.070, game meat that has been donated to a charitable organization and has been inspected and processed as provided in ORS...
• 624.310   Definitions for ORS 624.310 to 624.430.
  As used in ORS 624.310 to 624.430 unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Approved” means approved by the administrator. (2) “Commissary” means commissary catering establishment,...
• 624.320   License requirement for commissary, warehouse, mobile unit or vending machine; notice of mobile unit movement.
  (1) A person may not operate a vending machine, warehouse, commissary or mobile unit without first procuring a license to do so from the Department...
• 624.330   Exemption of certain commissaries, mobile units and vending machines from licensing requirements; rules.
  (1) Vending machines dispensing only ball chewing gum, nutmeats and the following prepackaged foods: Candy, chewing gum, nutmeats, potato chips, pretzels, popcorn, cookies, crackers and...
• 624.340   Denial, suspension or revocation of license.
  The Director of Human Services may deny, suspend or revoke a license in accordance with ORS chapter 183 in any case where the director finds...
• 624.350   [1963 c.575 §5; repealed by 1973 c.825 §23]
• 624.360   [1963 c.575 §6; repealed by 1973 c.825 §23]
• 624.370   Inspection of commissary, warehouse, mobile unit or vending machine; report of Director of Human Services; hearing.
  (1) At least once every six months, the Director of Human Services shall inspect every commissary and warehouse, and a representative number of each operator’s...
• 624.380   Diseased persons working in commissary or mobile unit; suspicion of possible transmission of infection.
  (1) No person affected with a communicable disease described in ORS 624.080 (1) or is a carrier of such disease shall work in any commissary,...
• 624.390   Rules.
  The Department of Human Services shall make reasonable rules for carrying out the provisions of ORS 624.310 to 624.430, including but not limited to the...
• 624.400   Rating surveys; preparing and disseminating information; cooperation with local health departments in educational programs.
  The Department of Human Services shall make such surveys as are necessary to obtain uniform enforcement of ORS 624.310 to 624.430 throughout the state and...
• 624.410   Commissaries and sources of supply outside jurisdiction.
  (1) Foods from commissaries or other sources outside the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services may be sold in the local jurisdiction if such...
• 624.420   Abating or enjoining violations of ORS 624.310 to 624.430.
  Any commissary, mobile unit or vending machine operated contrary to the provisions of ORS 624.310 to 624.430 is a public nuisance and dangerous to health...
• 624.430   Fee payment.
  (1) Except as provided in ORS 624.330, every applicant for a license to operate a commissary, vending machine, warehouse or mobile unit shall pay to...
• 624.440   [1963 c.575 §13; 1973 c.427 §14; 1987 c.905 §35; repealed by 2001 c.975 §11]
• 624.490   License fees; exemptions.
  (1) The Department of Human Services may charge the following fees for the issuance or renewal of licenses: (a) $157.50 for a bed and breakfast...
• 624.495   Foodborne illness prevention program; rules.
  (1) The Department of Human Services shall adopt rules establishing a foodborne illness prevention program for the purpose of protecting the public health. Unless an...
• 624.500   [1971 c.661 §3; repealed by 1973 c.825 §23]
• 624.510   Intergovernmental agreements with local public health authorities; fee collection and remittance; rules.
  (1) The Director of Human Services shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement with each local public health authority established under ORS 431.375, delegating to the...
• 624.530   Agreement to ensure only one agency inspects facilities; rules.
  Notwithstanding any provision of ORS 624.010 to 624.121 or 624.310 to 624.430 or statutes administered by the State Department of Agriculture, the Director of Human...
• 624.550   Local public health authority food service advisory committee.
  An intergovernmental agreement described in ORS 624.510 must encourage and authorize a local public health authority to which health enforcement powers, duties or functions have...
• 624.570   Food handler training requirement; exception; certification; fees; rules.
  (1)(a) Except as provided in subsection (6) of this section, any person involved in the preparation or service of food in a restaurant or food...
• 624.610   Application of ORS 624.010 to 624.121 or 624.310 to 624.430 to certain food service.
  Neither ORS 624.010 to 624.121 nor 624.310 to 624.430 apply to: (1) Food service provided to sleeping room patrons of facilities described in ORS 446.435;...
• 624.630   Construction, remodeling requirements; fees.
  A person may not construct or extensively remodel a facility subject to licensure under this chapter without first submitting construction or remodeling plans to the...
• 624.650   Temporary restaurant inspection fee.
  (1) Notwithstanding any provision of ORS 624.010, 624.086, 624.091, 624.510 or 624.530, a temporary restaurant as defined under ORS 624.010 that is a mobile unit...
• 624.670   Disposition of fees.
  All moneys received by the Department of Human Services under this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury, deposited in the General Fund to...
• 624.990   Criminal penalties.
  (1) Violation of any provision of ORS 624.010 to 624.121 or rules of the Department of Human Services promulgated under ORS 624.010 to 624.121 is...
• 624.992   Civil penalty; rules.
  (1) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the Department of Human Services may impose a civil penalty on any person for violation...

Last modified: August 7, 2008