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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 3 – Food Service Managers">
  <section prefix="§" num="6-301" heading="Certain facilities to employ manager.">
    <text>Each high priority or moderate priority food service facility must employ a food service manager.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §165(a)2b(part)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-302" heading="Managers to be certified.">
    <text>A food service manager who is employed by a high priority or moderate priority food service facility must, within 90 days of becoming employed by the facility, be certified by the Commissioner of Health in accordance with this subtitle.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §165(b)(2), (b-1)(1)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-303" heading="Certification requirements.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Commissioner to adopt.">In the rules and regulations adopted under &lt;cite data-path="|health|§2-106"&gt;§ 2-106 {“Rules and regulations”} of this article&lt;/cite&gt;, the Commissioner must include rules and regulations for:<para num="(1)">the certification and recertification of food service managers; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">the denial, suspension, and revocation of certifications.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Required provisions.">These rules and regulations must include:<para num="(1)">minimum requirements for instruction and examination in food-borne disease prevention, sanitation, hygiene, and food service management; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">reciprocity provisions for certifications granted by a political subdivision of this State that has established a food service manager certification program approved by the Commissioner.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §165(b-1)(2), (3)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Text Conformed 03/10/21</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">Text of subsection (a) conformed to include express cross-reference to § 2-106.  Cf. Editor’s Note to that section.</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-304" heading="Issuance to individuals only.">
    <text>A food service manager certificate may only be issued in the name of an individual.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §165(b-1)(6)(1st cl.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-305" heading="Term.">
    <text>Unless sooner suspended or revoked, a food service manager certificate expires on the 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; anniversary of its effective date.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §165(b-1)(6)(2nd cl.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="6-306" heading="Instructors to be certified.">
    <text>Instructors of food service managers must be certified in the same manner as food service managers.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 11, §165(b-1)(4)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-548</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
