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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-308" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Food Establishments">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “on–farm home processing facility” means a home or domestic kitchen located on an individual’s farm that manufactures and processes foods for commercial sale.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For any license issued for which the authority to conduct a program under this subtitle has been delegated to a county health department:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A county governing body or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City may and the Anne Arundel County Council shall provide for a license fee schedule based on the anticipated cost of licensing, inspecting, and regulating food establishments and may provide for exemptions from the license fee schedule; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>All license fees shall be paid to the local health department or chief financial officer of the county governing body or Baltimore City.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Montgomery County, and Prince George’s County, a license fee under this subsection may not exceed $70 for a seasonal food processing operation that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Uses only food that is grown on the property of the licensee; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is in operation for not more than a 3–month continuous period in the calendar year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A seasonal food processing operation may obtain a food establishment license for a fee of $70 under paragraph (2) of this subsection only twice in a calendar year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An on–farm home processing facility may obtain an on–farm home processing plant license for a fee established in regulations.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An on–farm home processing facility that obtains an on–farm home processing plant license may manufacture or process only foods provided for in regulations of the Department.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A license or permit is not required to deliver prepackaged foods to fill an order of a customer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>For any other food establishment license, the Secretary shall establish a license fee in accordance with § 2–104 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a license fee under this section may not exceed $150 annually for a food processing plant that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is a bona fide civic or nonprofit organization that processes meat for human consumption; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Engages in the processing of meat for human consumption no more than three times a year for 5 days or less each time.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
