| HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 113716
(a) (1) On or before January 1, 2000, each food facility shall have an owner or employee who has successfully passed an approved and accredited food safety certification examination. For purposes of this section, multiple contiguous food facilities permitted within the same site and under the same management, ownership, or control shall be deemed to be one food facility, notwithstanding the fact that the food facilities may operate under separate permits.
(2) The Legislature finds and declares that the certification required by this section may impose hardship on the owners and operators of smaller food facilities and, therefore, to the extent that a person who is seeking certification pursuant to this section requires training in order to successfully pass an approved and accredited food safety certification examination, this training shall be designed and provided in as flexible a manner as possible. To that end, the Legislature further finds and declares that this training may include, but need not be limited to, classroom training, home study programs, and computer-assisted training.
(b) On and after January 1, 2000, a food facility that commences operation, changes ownership, or no longer has a certified owner or employee pursuant to this section shall have 60 days to comply with subdivision (a).
(c) There shall be at least one certified owner or employee at each food facility. No certified person at a food facility for purposes of subdivision (a) may serve at any other food facility as the person required to be certified pursuant to this section. The certified owner or employee need not be present at the food facility during all hours of operation.
(d) The responsibilities of a certified owner or employee at a food facility shall include the safety of food preparation and service, including ensuring that all employees who handle, or have responsibility for handling, unpackaged foods of any kind have sufficient knowledge to ensure the safe preparation or service of the food, or both. The nature and extent of the knowledge that each employee is required to have may be tailored, as appropriate, to the employee's duties related to food safety issues.
(e) The food safety certificate issued pursuant to this section shall be retained on file at the food facility at all times, and shall be made available for inspection by the health enforcement officer.
(f) The issuance date for each original certificate issued pursuant to this section shall be the date when the individual successfully completes the examination. A certificate shall expire three years from the date of original issuance. Any replacement or duplicate certificate shall have as its expiration date the same expiration date that was on the original certificate.
(g) Certified individuals shall be recertified every three years by passing an approved and accredited food safety certification examination.
(h) On or before March 1, 1999, enforcement agencies shall notify all permitted food facilities subject to this section of the new legal obligation imposed by this section and provide to them the names and contact addresses for all approved and accredited food safety certification examinations.
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