ASSEMBLY, No. 636
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PAUL D. MORIARTY
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblyman PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.
District 18 (Middlesex)
Assemblywoman NANCY J. PINKIN
District 18 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DOH to establish uniform standards for retail food establishment health and sanitary evaluation placards.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on February 20, 2014, with amendments.
An Act concerning retail food establishment health and sanitary evaluation placards and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Commissioner of Health, in consultation with local health agencies, shall establish a uniform standard for health and sanitary evaluation placards that represent a health inspector’s evaluation of the health and sanitary conditions of a retail food establishment and are posted by that establishment in a conspicuous place for view by the public.
The uniform standard shall include a three-tier, color-coded evaluation placard system 1[based upon] indicating “satisfactory,” “conditionally satisfactory,” or “unsatisfactory” compliance by1 a retail food 1[establishment’s level of compliance with the provisions of chapter 24 of Title 8 of the New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C.8:24-1.1 et seq.)] establishment subject to the State Sanitary Code, established pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-7), and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto1.
b. 1[For purposes of this section, “retail food establishment” shall have the same meaning as defined in N.J.A.C.8:24-1.5] This act shall supersede any municipal ordinance or regulation concerning health and sanitary evaluation placards posted in retail food establishments1.
2. The Commissioner of Health shall 1[promulgate] adopt1 rules and regulations, pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), 1as1 necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month next following the date of enactment, but the Commissioner of Health may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.