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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 6-509 Children’s meals.">
  <section prefix="§" num="6-509" heading="Children’s meals.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="“Children’s meal” defined.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">In this section, “children’s meal” means a combination of food items that is:<para num="(i)">prepared by and offered for purchase at a food service facility as a unit at a single price; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">represented to be or otherwise primarily intended for consumption by children.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exception for prepackaged food items.">“Children’s meal” does not include a combination of food items that has been prepackaged by or at a facility other than the food service facility offering the prepackaged combination for purchase.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Beverage limitation.">No food service facility may offer a children’s meal that includes a beverage unless that beverage is:<para num="(1)">water, sparkling water, or flavored water, with no added natural or artificial sweeteners;</para>
      <para num="(2)">milk or a non-dairy milk alternative; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">100% fruit juice or fruit juice combined with water or sparkling water, with no added natural or artificial sweeteners, in a serving size of no more than 8 ounces.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Qualification.">Nothing in this section precludes a food service facility from providing, if specifically requested by the purchaser of the children’s meal, any lawful beverage as a substitute or alternative for the beverages being offered in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-126</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
