Retail food facilities: playgrounds.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, regulates retail food facilities to safeguard public health and requires local enforcement to enforce its provisions. Existing law requires that all premises of a food facility be kept clean, fully operative, and in good repair. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would include food facility playgrounds, as defined, within the requirement that the food facilities be kept clean, fully operative, and in good repair, and would require a food facility with an indoor playground to develop a plan to keep the playground area clean and free of hazards to children. By requiring the local enforcement agency to also inspect food facility playgrounds, and therefore increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also require a retail food facility with a playground to display or provide on request a record of the playground's maintenance policy and inspection record and to post a sign prohibiting customers from taking food into the playground structures. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.