Application - "Food Establishment Environmental Health Permit"

The owner/operator charge complete the absorbed appliance for an Environmental Bloom Permit. The signed appliance and appliance fee may be mailed to the abode acclaimed aloft or duke delivered to this office. An Environmental Bloom Specialist will conduct an analysis of your ability to verify that your ability is in acquiescence with the bloom laws. Operating a aliment ability after a bloom admittance is a misdemeanor (Kern County Ordinance 8.04.190).

Application Fee: All applicants charge pay an appliance fee of $75.00 aloft change of ownership, aperture a new business or abacus or bottomward a partner. Schools, religious organizations, nonprofit organizations, veterans and the accurately dark are currently absolved from bloom admittance fees. However, appliance fees are account fees and must be paid by all operators. Health Admittance Fee: Anniversary fees, appliance fees, and prorated fees are attached. Acquittal of the fees is required at the time the appliance for a bloom admittance is submitted. An affirmation for absolution from bloom permit fees charge be completed by all religious, congenial organizations, and nonprofit organizations above-mentioned to commencing operation. You may appeal the affirmation by contacting this appointment at (661)862-8700. The bloom admittance fee you pay is able until June 30. You will be invoiced every July for an anniversary bloom admittance fee which charge be paid to advance the cachet of your bloom permit. The face-lifting fee is behind if not paid by July 30 and 50% penalties will be imposed and your admittance may be suspended.

Health Admittance Inspection: An analysis to actuate acquiescence with the California Retail Aliment Code (CalCode) will be conducted aural bristles alive canicule of cancellation of the Appliance for Aliment Establishment Environmental Bloom Admittance and acquittal of all fees. Your bloom admittance will be mailed to you and will be valid until you abutting your business or any of the advice on the face of the admittance changes. Annual Bloom Admittance Fee Routine Inspections Routine: inspections will be conducted throughout the year and the inspections will be unannounced. The ambassador conducts the analysis to ensure that bloom laws and regulations are actuality followed. Critical violations affecting aliment assurance charge be adapted afore the inspector leaves. Non-critical violations charge be adapted in the time aeon specified. Reinspection Fees Operators: who abort to accede with the laws and regulations may be answerable a reinspection fee at the amount of $100.00 per hour for the time appropriate to accretion compliance. Food Ability Closures: Any violations which present a accident to the bloom and assurance of the accessible will aftereffect in the suspension of the bloom admittance and actual cease of the ability until the violations are corrected. These violations include, but are not bound to, the following:
< Lack of hot water
< Lack of power
< Sewage surfacing in the aliment enactment or parking lot
< Evidence of a foodborne affliction outbreak
< Failure to accommodate a being who has been certified in aliment safety
< Lack of a accurate bloom admittance to accomplish a aliment establishment
Food Assurance Certification for Facilities with Unpackaged Aliment and/or Beverages: At atomic one being at the food enactment charge be certified in aliment safety. Certification charge be renewed every three years. If the person who is certified leaves, you accept 60 canicule to alter that person. For Additional Assistance: Contact a aliment affairs specialist at (661)862-8700