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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-325" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Food Establishments">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsection (d) of this section, each food establishment shall have:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A convenient toilet that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, separated from any room in which food is manufactured, prepared, packed, canned, frozen, sold, or distributed;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Kept in a sanitary condition; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Properly ventilated; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A convenient lavatory that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Supplied with soap, water, towels, or other approved hand drying devices;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Kept in a sanitary condition; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Properly ventilated.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection does not apply to a mobile food service facility or a semipermanent food service facility located in Washington County.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each food service facility which prepares food and provides seating for patrons established after January 1, 1979, shall have available for the public:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A convenient toilet that is kept in a sanitary condition; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A convenient lavatory that is:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Supplied with soap, water, towels, or other approved hand drying devices;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Kept in a sanitary condition; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Properly ventilated.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A room that houses a toilet may be constructed within a larger room in which food is manufactured, prepared, packed, canned, frozen, sold, or distributed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to a food establishment that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A business that conducts agritourism, as defined in § 4–212 of the Land Use Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A Class 4 limited winery licensed under § 2–206 of the Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A Class 8 farm brewery licensed under § 2–210 of the Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A food establishment may comply with the requirement to provide a convenient lavatory by providing a portable toilet that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Otherwise meets the requirements of subsection (a)(2) or (b)(2)(ii) of this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is placed at least 25 feet from a well.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
