Bill Text: CT HB05258 | 2014 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Bakeries, Food Manufacturing Establishments And Food Warehouses.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8)
Status: (Passed) 2014-06-06 - Signed by the Governor [HB05258 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2014-HB05258-Chaptered.html
AN ACT CONCERNING BAKERIES, FOOD MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS AND FOOD WAREHOUSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 21a-151 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
For the purposes of this chapter and section 3 of this act:
(1) "Bakery" means a building or part of a building [wherein is carried on the production of] where bread, cakes, doughnuts, crullers, pies, cookies, crackers, spaghetti, macaroni or other food products are made, either wholly or in part of flour or meal, [and including all] including frozen or canned baked goods. [All restaurants, hotels, private institutions, home bakeries, establishments operating doughnut-frying equipment and other similar places, offering their products for sale, shall be included. ] "Bakery" includes, but is not limited to, any restaurant, hotel, private institution, home bakery, establishment operating doughnut-frying equipment or other similar place that offers such food products for sale.
(2) "Food manufacturing establishment" means a building or part of a building where food is prepared for sale to other establishments for human consumption. For purposes of this subdivision, "prepared" means a process of canning, cooking, freezing, [dehydration or milling] dehydrating, milling, repacking or cutting. Premises [which] that are used solely for the retail sale or storage of prepackaged food, and facilities, as described in sections 21a-24a and 22-6r [,] and chapters 417, 419a, 422, 423, 430, 431 and 491, shall not be considered food manufacturing establishments.
(3) "Food warehouse" means a building or part of a building where food is stored for wholesale distribution, provided such building or part of such building is used primarily for the importation, storage or distribution of packaged food and not for other activities for which a license is required pursuant to section 21a-152, as amended by this act. Premises licensed pursuant to said section and facilities, as described in sections 21a-24a and 22-6r and chapters 417, 419a, 422, 423, 430, 431 and 491, shall not be considered food warehouses.
[(3)] (4) "Packaged food" means standard or random weight or volume packages of food commodities that are enclosed in a container or wrapped in any manner in advance of wholesale or retail sale, such that the food commodities cannot be added to or subtracted from the package or wrapping without breaking or tearing the wrapping, container or seals on the wrapping or container.
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 21a-152 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) Each bakery and food manufacturing establishment shall be designed, constructed and operated as the Commissioner of Consumer Protection directs pursuant to this chapter and chapter 418.
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective from passage) No person, firm or corporation shall operate a food warehouse without having obtained a certificate of registration from the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. Application for a certificate of registration shall be on forms prescribed by the commissioner. The commissioner shall issue a certificate of registration to an applicant who has completed such forms to the satisfaction of the commissioner and has paid the registration fee. A certificate of registration shall be valid for one year and the fee for such certificate of registration shall be twenty dollars.