Title 289, PURE FOODS AND STANDARDS

Sec. 4105. (1) A person, establishment, or organization that is 1 or more of the following is exempt from the licensure requirements under this act: (a) Subject to subsection (2), an establishment licensed under 1 of the following acts while conducting activities within the scope…

Sec. 4107. To qualify for a food establishment license, an applicant shall do all of the following: (a) Submit an application as required by section 4103. (b) Be an owner of the food establishment or an officer of the legal entity owning the food establishment. (c) Comply with th…

Sec. 4109. A license, other than a license for a temporary food service establishment, expires at midnight on April 30 each year. The department may issue a temporary food license for a period not to exceed 14 days.

Sec. 4111. (1) The department shall impose the following license fees for each year or portion of a year: (a) Retail grocery: $106.00 for 2016, $145.00 for 2017, and $183.00 for any subsequent year. (b) Extended retail food establishment: $271.00 for 2016, $370.00 for 2017, and $…

Sec. 4113. (1) The department shall impose, for a renewal application postmarked or delivered in person on or after May 1 of each year, a late fee of an additional $150.00. The late fee for a new application submitted after the establishment has opened for business is an addition…

Sec. 4114. (1) A person shall not act as a shellfish dealer unless the person has been certified as a shellfish dealer by the department. An application for shellfish dealer certification shall be submitted to the department on the forms approved by the department and shall conta…

Sec. 4115. (1) A water bottler or water dispensing machine owner shall register with the department each brand of bottled water with a unique declaration of identity before the sale or offering for sale of the water. The application for registration shall be made on a form prescr…

Sec. 4116. (1) Beginning July 23, 2004, and notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the department shall issue an initial license not later than 90 days after the applicant files a completed application and shall issue a renewal license not later than 120 days after the …

Sec. 4117. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), money collected under this chapter by the department must be credited to the dairy and food safety fund that is created as a restricted fund within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other ass…

Sec. 4119. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), a person licensed as a food establishment under this chapter shall keep a copy of the current license or temporary license furnished by the department posted and exposed in a conspicuous place for public inspection. A…

Sec. 4121. Thirty days before a food establishment proposes either of the following changes, a licensee shall notify the regulatory authority having jurisdiction of that proposed change: (a) A change in the type of license even if the change would not result in the change of the …

Sec. 4123. (1) A food establishment license is not transferable as to the holder or the location. (2) A shellfish dealer certificate is not transferable as to the holder or to the location. (3) A bottled water registration is not transferable as to the holder or the location.

Sec. 4125. (1) Before a food establishment license, bottled water registration, or shellfish dealer certificate is issued, the director shall determine if the applicant meets the minimum requirements of this act and rules. (2) After an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to the ad…

Sec. 4127. (1) After the regulatory authority receives a petition for a hearing from a license, registration, or certificate holder whose license, registration, or certificate is summarily suspended under section 4125, the proceedings shall be promptly commenced and determined as…

Sec. 4129. (1) A license, registration, or certificate applicant may request a hearing regarding the regulatory authority's denial of a new or renewal license, registration, or certificate. A person desiring a hearing in response to a denial of a license, registration, or certifi…

Sec. 5101. (1) A person shall not do or cause to be done any of the following: (a) Manufacture, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale adulterated or misbranded food. (b) Adulterate or misbrand food. (c) Receive in commerce food that is adulterated or misbranded and deliver or pr…

Sec. 5103. (1) If a food is alleged to be misbranded because the labeling is misleading or if an advertisement is alleged to be false because it is misleading, then the determination of whether the labeling or advertisement is misleading shall take into account, among other thing…

Sec. 5104. (1) A retail food establishment, farmer, wholesaler, wholesale processor, distributor, or other person who donates food for use or distribution by a nonprofit organization or nonprofit corporation, and a nonprofit organization or nonprofit corporation that collects don…

Sec. 5105. (1) Upon finding that a person violated a provision of this act or a rule promulgated under this act, the department may impose an administrative fine of not more than $500.00 for the first offense and not more than $1,000.00 for a second or subsequent offense and the …

Sec. 5107. (1) Except as otherwise provided under this act, a person who violates any provision of this act or rules promulgated under this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $250.00 or more than $2,500.00 or by imprisonment for not mo…

Sec. 5109. When a violation of section 5101(1)(k) occurs which is not suspected of threatening the safety of food intended for human consumption, the department shall provide a person owning or operating the food establishment a written report of the violation before subjecting p…

Sec. 5111. In addition to the remedies provided for in this act, the department may apply to the circuit court for, and the court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for cause shown, a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating any provision of t…

Sec. 5113. The regulatory authority shall justly apply the remedies according to law and this act consistent with the licensee's right to due process.

Sec. 5115. When a license holder or registrant has exhausted all administrative remedies available under this act and is aggrieved by a final decision or order in a contested case, the decision or order is subject to direct review by the courts as provided by law.

Sec. 6101. (1) Chapters 1 through 8 of the food code are incorporated by reference except as amended and modified as follows: (a) Where provisions of this act and rules specify different requirements. (b) Section 3-401.14 is modified to read as follows: "3-401.14 Non-Continuous C…

Sec. 6103. (1) The following food establishments are exempt from the requirement for plan review and approval specified in section 8-201.11 of the food code: (a) A temporary food establishment. (b) A retail grocery. (2) The plan review exemption for a retail grocery in subsection…

Sec. 6105. (1) A person seeking approval of plans and specifications for a food establishment shall submit a transmittal letter with the plans and specifications. The letter shall identify and summarize the plans or projects and shall indicate the owner, operator, or designated a…

Sec. 6107. (1) The director shall review plans and specifications received under section 6105 as soon as practicable after receipt to determine their completeness and adequacy. If a submission of complete plans and specifications is not reviewed within 30 business days of receipt…

Sec. 6109. The director may attach any condition to an approval of plans and specifications granted under section 6107 that he or she considers necessary to assure proper construction, conversion, alteration, or remodeling of a food establishment or portion of the food establishm…

Sec. 6111. (1) A license applicant or license holder shall submit in writing to the director a change in approved plans and specifications. Written approval must be obtained before construction under the approved plans and specifications. (2) Upon request of the director, a licen…

Sec. 6113. (1) The director may rescind his or her authorization for construction, conversion, alteration, or remodeling of a food establishment if he or she determines that the license applicant or license holder is not undertaking construction in accordance with approved plans …

Sec. 6115. (1) After completion of the construction, alteration, conversion, or remodeling and before the opening of a food service establishment, the license applicant or license holder shall notify the director of the completion, shall submit an application for a license to ope…

Sec. 6117. Exhaust ventilation shall be designed, constructed, and installed in compliance with applicable state law.

Sec. 6125. The waste line from ice storage bins and ice machines shall not be directly connected with another waste line and shall be drained through an air gap.

Sec. 6129. (1) The director shall consider the risk-based evaluation methodology as described in food code annex 5, section 4 A-H for conducting evaluations of food establishments. (2) The completed evaluation report shall specify a period of time for correction of noted violatio…

Sec. 6131. (1) Each commissary where mobile units with retention tanks are serviced shall provide for the sanitary disposal of liquid waste. (2) The local health department shall approve locations for the sanitary disposal of liquid waste.

Sec. 6133. The director may license as a temporary food service establishment a mobile food establishment which does not return to a commissary or service base after 24 hours but continues to operate at a fixed location.

Sec. 6135. (1) The name and address of the business operating a mobile food establishment shall be affixed to each side of the exterior of the vehicle in letters not less than 3 inches high and 3/8 of an inch wide and shall be in contrast to the vehicle background color. When mor…

Sec. 6137. (1) To qualify for a special transitory food unit license, an applicant shall allow a review and receive approval of plans and specifications as specified in chapter VI. This review and approval must include the menu and standard operating procedures for the unit. (2) …

Sec. 6139. A food service establishment shall not store on the premises or apply to any food prepared in the food service establishment sulfiting agents.

Sec. 6140. (1) Only pasteurized ingredients from a department-approved source shall be used for milk and milk products manufactured, sold, served, or prepared at a retail food establishment. Such ingredients include, but are not limited to, milk, milk solids, whey, nonfat dry mil…

Sec. 6141. (1) A food service establishment in which solid foods are sold and consumed on the premises shall prominently display a poster in the kitchen area of the food service establishment diagramming and explaining the antichoking techniques safe for both adults and children …

Sec. 6143. (1) A charitable, religious, fraternal, or other nonprofit organization that prepares or serves wild game in connection with its meetings or as part of a fund-raising event or that prepares or serves wild game to indigent persons free of charge is not required to obtai…

Sec. 6147. If a food establishment is affected by fire, flooding, accidents, explosions, or other disaster that may create an imminent or substantial hazard and unless otherwise directed, all food operations shall cease and the licensee shall immediately report to the director th…

Sec. 6149. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Publicly available" means accessible to consumers, without their having to request it, before their placing food orders or making their selections. (b) "Selection information" means whatever consumers read to make their order selection…

Sec. 6150. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Artificial trans fat" means an unsaturated fat or fatty acid that is produced by the partial hydrogenation of plant oils and that contains 1 or more instances of atoms bonded in a trans configuration. (b) "Publicly available" means acc…