GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 555

Short Title:  Food Inspection/Private Clubs.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Dickson; and Gamble.
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Referred to:  Health and Human Services.
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March 25, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT PRIVATE CLUBS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO FOOD INSPECTIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section. 1. G.S. 130A-248(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	For the protection of the public health, the Commission shall adopt rules governing the sanitation of restaurants, school cafeterias, summer camps, food or drink stands, sandwich manufacturing operations, mobile food units, pushcarts, private clubs, and other facilities where food or drink is prepared or served for pay.  However, any facility where food or drink is prepared or served to the public, regardless of pay, shall be subject to the provisions of this Article if the facility holds an ABC permit, meets the definition of an establishment pursuant to G.S. 18B-1000(2), (4), (5), or (6) and does not meet the definition of a private club as provided in G.S. 130A-247(2)."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 130A-250 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-250.  Exemptions.
This Part shall not apply to: (i)	facilities which provide food or lodging to regular boarders or permanent house guests only; (ii) curb markets operated by the State Agricultural Extension Service; (iii) occasional fund-raising events conducted by the same person no more frequently than two consecutive days every month; and (iv) private homes that occasionally offer lodging accommodations, which may include the providing of food, for two weeks or less to persons attending special events, provided those homes are not bed and breakfast homes nor bed and breakfast inns.  A mobile food unit or pushcart shall be operated in conjunction with a permitted restaurant."
Sec. 3. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to assist local health departments in carrying out the sanitation inspections required by Section 1 of this act.  These funds shall be in addition to other funds appropriated to the Department for environmental health aid-to-counties purposes.  Of the funds appropriated under this section, the Department shall allocate two thousand dollars ($2,000) in each fiscal year to each county to be used to supplement, but not supplant, funds for local food establishment inspections by local health departments.
Sec. 4. Sections 1 and 2 of this act become effective January 1, 1994.  Section 3 of this act becomes effective July 1, 1993.