1997-241A \FOOD FEE
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS AMENDING SECTION 13-22 OF
CHAPTER 13 "FOOD AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY OF DENTON, PROVIDING FOR PERMIT FEES FOR RESTAURANTS,
GROCERY STORES, AND DAY CARE CENTERS, PROVIDING A PENALTY NOT TO
EXCEED $2,000 00, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION, AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF TNE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS
~ECTION I That subsection (a) of Section 13-22 "Permit
Issuance" of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton, Texas is
hereby amended to read as follows
Sec. 13-22. Permit Issuance.
(a) Upon receipt of an application and payment of the applicable
fee, the health officer shall make an inspection of the pre-
mlses where the buslness is to be conducted If the premises
comply with the terms of this article and with all require-
ments of the zoning ordinance, other ordinances and state law,
a permit shall be lssued to the applicant upon payment of the
permit fee An applicant shall submit the applicable permit
fee as set forth in the following table before a permit will
be issued
For a Restaurant
Number of
Employees Amount
0-5 $105 00
6-10 125 00
11-15 145 00
16-20 165 00
21-25 200 00
26-30 220 00
31-35 240 00
36-40 260 00
41 or more 270 00
For a Grocery Store
Number of
Employees Amount
0-5 $105 00
6-10 125 00
11-15 145 00
16-20 165 00
21-25 200 00
26-30 220 00
31-35 240 00
36-40 260 00
41 or more 270 00
For each Day Care Center Sixty-five dollars ($65 00)
plus one dollar ($1 00) per child of licensed capacity
For a seasonal establishment Twenty-five dollars
($25 00>
For a temporary establlshmen% Ten dollars ($10 00)
A temporary food service establishment which operates more
than onoe during any consecutive twelve-month period shall pay
a permit fee for each separate period of operation
~ That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sen-
tence~ clause, phrase or word an this ordinance, or application
thereof to any person or circumstance Ks held invalid by any court
of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and the City
Council of the City of Denton, Texas hereby declares it would have
enacted such remaining portions despite any such invalidity
~ That any person violating any provision of th~s
ordinance s~all, upon conviction, be f~ned a sum not exceeding
$2,000 00 Each day that a provision of this ordinance is violated
shall constitute a separate and distinct offense
SECTION IV That save and except as amended hereby, all the
sections, sentences, and clauses of Section 13-22 of the Code of
Ordinances of the C~ty of Denton, Texas shall remain in full force
and effect
SECTION V. That this ordinance shall become effective four-
teen (14) days from the date of Its passage, and the City Secretary
is hereby directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be
published twice an the Denton Record-Chronicle, the official news-
paper of the City of Denton, Texas, w~thln ten (10) days of the
PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of 1997
JAC~
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ATTEST
JE~IFER W~TERS, CITY SECRETLY
APPR D AS TO LEGAL FORM
HERBERT L PRO~Y, CITY ATTORNEY
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