22 §2491. Definitions
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 5: FOODS AND DRUGS
Chapter 562: CAMPING AREAS, RECREATIONAL CAMPS, YOUTH CAMPS AND EATING ESTABLISHMENTS
§2491. Definitions
(CONTAINS TEXT WITH VARYING EFFECTIVE DATES)
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words shall have the following meanings. [1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW).]
1. Camping area. "Camping area" means, in addition to the general accepted interpretations, seashore resorts, lakeshore places, picnic and lunch grounds or other premises where tents or recreational vehicles are permitted to be parked for compensation either directly or indirectly.
[ 1979, c. 30, §1 (AMD) .]
2. Catering establishments. "Catering establishments" means any kitchen, commissary or similar place in which food or drink is prepared for sale or service elsewhere or for service on the premises during special catered events.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
2-A. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 2/1/11) Calories per serving. "Calories per serving" means the caloric information for a food or beverage item being offered for consumption by one person, as usually prepared and as offered for sale on the menu, menu board or food display tag.
[ 2009, c. 395, §1 (NEW); 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF) .]
2-B. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 2/1/11) Chain restaurant. "Chain restaurant" means an eating establishment that does business under the same trade name in 20 or more locations, at least one of which is located in the State, that offers predominantly the same type of meals, food, beverages or menus, regardless of the type of ownership of an individual location. "Chain restaurant" does not include a grocery store. "Chain restaurant" does not include a hotel or motel that provides a separately owned eating establishment but does include the separately owned eating establishment if the eating establishment meets the criteria of this subsection. "Chain restaurant" does not include a movie theater.
[ 2009, c. 395, §2 (NEW); 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF) .]
3. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services.
[ 1975, c. 293, §4 (AMD); 2003, c. 689, Pt. B, §7 (REV) .]
4. Cottage. "Cottage" means a single structure where sleeping accommodations are furnished to the public as a business for a day, week or month, but not for more than the entire summer season.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
5. Department. "Department" means the Department of Health and Human Services.
[ 1975, c. 293, §4 (AMD); 2003, c. 689, Pt. B, §6 (REV) .]
6. Eating and lodging places or lodging place. "Eating and lodging place or lodging place" means every building or structure or any part thereof kept, used as, maintained as, advertised as or held out to the public to be a place where eating and sleeping or sleeping accommodations are furnished to the public as a business, such as hotels, motels, guest homes and cottages.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
7. Eating establishment. "Eating establishment" means any place where food or drink is prepared and served, or served to the public for consumption on the premises, or catering establishments, or establishments dispensing food from vending machines, or establishments preparing foods for vending machines dispensing foods other than in original sealed packages, such as hotels, motels, boarding homes, restaurants, mobile eating places, coffee shops, cafeterias, short order cafes, luncheonettes, grills, tearooms, sandwich shops, soda fountains, bars, cocktail lounges, night clubs, roadside stands, industrial feeding establishments, private or public institutions routinely serving foods, retail frozen dairy product establishments, airports, parks, theaters, recreational camps, youth camps or any other catering or nonalcoholic drinking establishments or operations where food is prepared and served or served for consumption on the premises, or catering establishments where food is prepared, or where foods are prepared for vending machines dispensing food other than in original sealed packages.
[ 2009, c. 211, Pt. A, §1 (AMD) .]
7-A. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 2/1/11) Food display tag. "Food display tag" means a written or printed description of a food or beverage item, such as a label or placard, placed in the vicinity of the food or beverage item identifying the type or price of the food or beverage.
[ 2009, c. 395, §3 (NEW); 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF) .]
7-B. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 2/1/11) Grocery store. "Grocery store" means a store primarily engaged in the retail sale of canned food, dry goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meats, fish and poultry. "Grocery store" includes a convenience store, but does not include a separately owned eating establishment located within a grocery store.
[ 2009, c. 395, §4 (NEW); 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF) .]
7-C. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 2/1/11) Menu. "Menu" means a written or printed list describing food or beverage items offered for sale at an eating establishment that may be distributed on or off the premises, but does not include a menu board.
[ 2009, c. 395, §5 (NEW); 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF) .]
7-D. (TEXT EFFECTIVE 2/1/11) Menu board. "Menu board" means a list of food or beverage items offered for sale at an eating establishment that is posted in a public area for viewing by multiple customers, including a backlit marquee sign, chalkboard or drive-through menu sign.
[ 2009, c. 395, §6 (NEW); 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF) .]
8. Mobile eating place. "Mobile eating place" means a mobile vehicle designed and constructed to transport, prepare, sell or serve food at a number of sites and capable of being moved from its serving site at any time.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
9. Mobile home.
[ 1983, c. 553, §18 (RP) .]
10. Mobile home park.
[ 1983, c. 553, §18 (RP) .]
11. Recreational camp. "Recreational camp" means and includes family, hunting, fishing and similar camps.
[ 2009, c. 211, Pt. A, §2 (AMD) .]
12. Sanitarian. "Sanitarian" means a person whose education and experience in the biological and sanitary sciences qualify him to engage in the promotion and protection of the public health. He applies technical knowledge to solve problems of a sanitary nature and develops methods and carries out procedures for the control of those factors of man's environment which affect his health, safety and well-being.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
13. Vending machine establishment. "Vending machine establishment" means any establishment preparing foods for vending machines dispensing foods other than in original sealed packages.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
14. Vending machine. "Vending machine" shall mean any self-service device offered for public use which, upon insertion of a coin, coins or token or by other similar means, dispenses unit servings of food without the necessity of replenishing the device between vending operations.
[ 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW) .]
15. Retail frozen dairy product establishment. "Retail frozen dairy product establishment" means any place, premise or establishment and any part thereof where frozen dairy products, such as ice cream, frozen custard, ice milk, sherbert, ices and related food products are prepared for consumption on or off premises.
[ 1979, c. 672, Pt. A, §60 (NEW) .]
16. Youth camp. "Youth camp" means a combination of program and facilities established for the primary purpose of providing an outdoor group living experience for children with social, recreational, spiritual and educational objectives and operated and used for 5 or more consecutive days during one or more seasons of the year. "Youth camp" includes day camps, residential camps and trip and travel camps.
[ 2009, c. 211, Pt. A, §3 (NEW) .]
SECTION HISTORY
1975, c. 293, §4 (AMD). 1975, c. 496, §3 (NEW). 1979, c. 30, §1 (AMD). 1979, c. 672, §§A59,60 (AMD). 1983, c. 553, §18 (AMD). 2003, c. 689, §§B6,7 (REV). 2009, c. 211, Pt. A, §§1-3 (AMD). 2009, c. 395, §§1-6 (AMD). 2009, c. 395, §8 (AFF).