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[TITLE 26. Table of Contents]
26-15-1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Food handler" means any person working part-time or full-time in a food service establishment who moves food or food containers, prepares, stores, or serves food; comes in contact with any food, utensil, tableware or equipment; or washes the same. The term also includes owners, supervisors, and management persons, and any other person working in a food-service establishment. The term also includes any operator or person employed by one who handles food dispensed through vending machines; or who comes into contact with food contact surfaces or containers, equipment, utensils, or packaging materials used in connection with vending machine operations; or who otherwise services or maintains one or more vending machines.
(2) "Pest" means a noxious, destructive, or troublesome organism whether plant or animal, when found in and around places of human occupancy, habitation, or use which threatens the public health or well being of the people within the state.
(3) "Vector" means any organism, such as insects or rodents,
that transmits a pathogen that can affect public health.
1991
26-15-2 Minimum rules of sanitation established by department.
The department shall establish and enforce, or provide for the enforcement of minimum rules of sanitation necessary to protect the public health. Such rules shall include, but not be limited to, rules necessary for the design, construction, operation, maintenance, or expansion of:
(1) restaurants and all places where food or drink is handled, sold or served to the public;
(2) public swimming pools;
(3) public baths including saunas, spas, massage parlors, and suntan parlors;
(4) public bathing beaches;
(5) schools which are publicly or privately owned or operated;
(6) recreational resorts, camps, and vehicle parks;
(7) amusement parks and all other centers and places used for public gatherings;
(8) mobile home parks and highway rest stops;
(9) construction or labor camps;
(10) jails, prisons and other places of incarceration or confinement;
(11) hotels and motels;
(12) lodging houses and boarding houses;
(13) service stations;
(14) barbershops and beauty shops;
(15) physician and dentist offices;
(16) public buildings and grounds; and
(17) public conveyances and terminals.
1981
26-15-3 Department to advise Uniform Building Code Commission regarding the code and specific edition of a plumbing code.
The department shall advise the Division of Occupational
and Professional Licensing and the Uniform Building Code
Commission with respect to the code and specific edition
of a plumbing code adopted by a nationally recognized code
authority to be adopted by the Division of Occupational and
Professional Licensing, and amendments to that code as provided
for under Section
58-56-5
. The department may enforce the plumbing code
adopted by the Division of Occupational and Professional
Licensing under Section
58-56-4
. The provisions of Section
58-56-9
do not apply to health inspectors acting under
this section.
1995
26-15-4 Rules for wastewater disposal systems.
The department shall establish rules necessary to protect
the public health for the design, and construction, operation
and maintenance of individual wastewater disposal systems.
1981
26-15-5 Requirements for food handlers.
The department shall establish minimum requirements for
food handler certification and training necessary to promote
general sanitation and protect the public health.
1981
26-15-7 Rules for controlling vector-borne diseases and pests.
The department shall adopt rules to provide for the protection
of the public health by controlling or preventing the spread
of vector-borne diseases and infections and to control or
reduce pests by the elimination of insanitary conditions
which may include but not be limited to breeding areas, shelter,
harborage or sources of food associated with such diseases
or pests.
1981
26-15-8 Periodic evaluation of local health sanitation programs - Minimum statewide enforcement standards - Technical assistance.
(1) The department shall periodically evaluate the sanitation programs of local health departments to determine the levels of sanitation being maintained throughout the state.
(2) (a) The department shall ensure that each local health department's enforcement of the minimum rules of sanitation adopted under Section 26-15-2 for restaurants and other places where food or drink is handled meets or exceeds minimum statewide enforcement standards established by the department by administrative rule.
(b) Administrative rules adopted under Subsection (2)(a) shall include at least:
(i) the minimum number of periodic on-site inspections that must be conducted by each local health department;
(ii) criteria for conducting additional inspections; and
(iii) standardized methods to be used by local health departments to assess compliance with the minimum rules of sanitation adopted under Section 26-15-2 .
(c) The department shall help local health departments
comply with the minimum statewide enforcement standards adopted
under this Subsection (2) by providing technical assistance.
2006
26-15-9 Impoundment of adulterated food products authorized.
The department and local health departments may impound
any food products found in places where food or drink is
handled, sold, or served to the public that is intended for
but found to be adulterated and unfit for human consumption;
and, upon five days notice and reasonable opportunity for
a hearing to the interested parties, to condemn and destroy
the same if deemed necessary for the protection of the public
health.
1981
26-15-11 Statutes on smoking considered public health laws.
Title 26, Chapter 38, Utah Indoor Clean Air Act, is a
public health law and shall be enforced by the department
and local health departments.
1994
26-15-12 Rules to implement statutes on smoking.
The department shall adopt rules necessary and reasonable
to implement the provisions of Title 26, Chapter 38, Utah
Indoor Clean Air Act.
1994
