5.54.130 Inspection fees.
A. The following are hereby fixed as the annual inspection fees for local health permits:
1. Each enterprise or establishment other than an itinerant restaurant, food vending or vending machine:
a. In which there are one to 10 employees, $20.00.
b. In which there are 11 to 99 employees, a total fee equal to $2.00 per employee.
c. In which there are 100 or more employees, $200.00.
2. Each food vending vehicle, $20.00.
3. Each itinerant restaurant, $20.00.
4. Each food vending machine, $4.00.
5. Each duplicate permit replacing a permit previously issued, $2.00.
B. In addition to the foregoing fees, any applicant who has failed to file an application for renewal permit prior to the expiration of the current permit shall pay a penalty of 10 percent if his application is filed within 30 days from and after the last date upon which his previous permit was valid and a penalty of 50 percent if filed thereafter. The fees for local health permits shall not be prorated. No fees shall be due or required for permits issued for the calendar year 1969.
C. The following enterprises, establishments and operations are subject to this chapter but are exempt from the annual fees herein provided:
1. Any cafeteria, eating place or other enterprise or establishment operated in or by a school in the public school system or an academically equivalent private school.
2. Any cafeteria, eating place or other enterprise or establishment operated by a public agency, or in a public building or premises, which is supported in whole or in part by taxes.
D. The following enterprises, establishments, and operations are exempt from this chapter: any vending machine dispensing only soft drinks in sealed containers.
E. Any itinerant restaurant operator shall show evidence of payment of the local health permit fee herein required prior to exercising concession privileges at any County or local fair or carnival.
F. The penalty fees imposed by this section shall not be effective until the expiration of the first renewal period following the adoption by all cities in Sonoma County of an ordinance similar to the Sonoma County food industry ordinance requiring local health permits and imposing fees and penalties similar to those herein imposed. (Formerly 3.16.130)