Michigan Laws 289.4111 – License fees; food sanitation fees; initial application fee as nonrefundable; convenience fee
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 289.4111
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the department of agriculture and rural development. See Michigan Laws 289.1107
- Extended retail food establishment: means a retail grocery that does both of the following:
(i) Serves or provides an unpackaged food for immediate consumption. See Michigan Laws 289.1107Food: means articles used for food or drink for humans or other animals, chewing gum, and articles used for components of any such article. See Michigan Laws 289.1107 Food establishment: means an operation where food is processed, packed, canned, preserved, frozen, fabricated, stored, prepared, served, vended, sold, or offered for sale. See Michigan Laws 289.1107 Food processor: means a food establishment that processes, manufactures, wholesales, packages, labels, or stores food. See Michigan Laws 289.1107 Food service establishment: means a fixed or mobile restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette, grill, tearoom, sandwich shop, soda fountain, tavern, bar, cocktail lounge, nightclub, drive-in, industrial feeding establishment, private organization serving the public, rental hall, catering kitchen, delicatessen, theater, commissary, food concession, or similar place in which food or drink is prepared for direct consumption through service on the premises or elsewhere, and any other eating or drinking establishment or operation where food is served or provided for the public. See Michigan Laws 289.1107 Food warehouse: means a food establishment that stores or distributes food for wholesale. See Michigan Laws 289.1107 Local health department: means that term as defined in section 1105 of the public health code, MCL 333. See Michigan Laws 289.1109 Mobile food establishment: means a food establishment operating from a vehicle, including a watercraft, that returns to a mobile food establishment commissary for servicing and maintenance at least once every 24 hours. See Michigan Laws 289.1109 Person: means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 289.1109 Retail grocery: means an operation that sells or offers to sell food to consumers for off-premises consumption. See Michigan Laws 289.1111 Special transitory food unit: means a temporary food establishment that is licensed to operate throughout the state without the 14-day limits or a mobile food establishment that is not required to return to a commissary. See Michigan Laws 289.1111 Temporary food establishment: means a food establishment that operates at a fixed location for a temporary period not to exceed 14 consecutive days. See Michigan Laws 289.1111 Vending company base location: means a vending machine location or other food establishment required to be separately licensed under section 4105(5). See Michigan Laws 289.1111 Vending machine: means a self-service device that, upon insertion of a coin, paper currency, token, card, or key, or by manual operation, dispenses unit servings of food in bulk or in packages without the necessity of replenishing the device between each vending operation. See Michigan Laws 289.1111
(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 $468.00 for any subsequent year.
(c) Food processor: $271.00 for 2016, $370.00 for 2017, and $468.00 for any subsequent year.
(d) Limited food processor: $106.00 for 2016, $145.00 for 2017, and $183.00 for any subsequent year.
(e) Mobile food establishment: $183.00 for 2016, $186.00 for 2017, and $189.00 for any subsequent year.
(f) Temporary food establishment: $40.00 for 2016, $55.00 for 2017, and $70.00 for any subsequent year.
(g) Special transitory food unit: $150.00 for 2016, $153.00 for 2017, and $156.00 for any subsequent year.
(h) Mobile food establishment commissary: $183.00 for 2016, $186.00 for 2017, and $189.00 for any subsequent year.
(i) Food warehouse or vending company base location: $106.00 for 2016, $145.00 for 2017, and $183.00 for any subsequent year. In addition, the operator of the vending company base location shall pay an additional fee based on the number of vending machine locations in this state, as follows:
(i) 1 to 20 locations, $500.00.
(ii) 21 to 50 locations, $750.00.
(iii) 51 to 75 locations, $2,000.00.
(iv) More than 75 locations, $3,000.00.
If a person operates more than 1 vending company base location in this state, all vending machine locations served by those vending company base locations shall be aggregated on 1 of the vending company base location licenses for the purpose of determining the amount of the additional fee for vending machine locations.
(j) Food service establishment: the amounts described in subsection (2).
(2) If a local health department no longer conducts a food service program, the department, in consultation with the commission of agriculture and rural development, shall set the food sanitation fees to be imposed for the conduct of the food service program by the department. The fees imposed must equal, as nearly as possible, 1/2 of the department’s cost of providing the service. The department may impose the service fees for up to 12 months after the date of cessation by the local health department. After the 12-month period, the department shall collect the fees only as authorized pursuant to an appropriation.
(3) Any license fee paid on an initial application is nonrefundable.
(4) The department may charge a convenience fee and collect from the applicant any additional costs associated with the method of fee payment for the license or permit fees described in this chapter, not to exceed the costs to the department.