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Non-Profit Organizations

When is a Temporary Food License needed?

• When operating a food or beverage stand OFF the premises regularly used by your Non-profit organization and serving or providing:
  - Unpackaged food or beverages (including alcoholic
    beverages) to the public. Examples - tacos, burgers,
    lemonade, keg beer, BBQ, pie by the slice, etc. or
  - Commercially prepared pre-packaged food or
    beverage that requires temperature control for
    safety.  Examples - ice cream bars, bottles/cartons
    of milk, containers of yogurt, etc. or
  - Cut fruits that require temperature control for
    safety.  Examples - cut watermelon, cantaloupe,
    and honeydew melons.

• Menu items that are listed on the Temporary Food License application and approved prior to the event may be servided in a Temporary Food Stand.
• All food must come from a licensed and approved source.
  - A non-profit organization's premise is not considered
    an approved source unless it is licensed as a food
    establishment or a food precessing plant.  If the
    organization does not have a licensed food establishment,
    food processing plant, or mobile food unit - then all
    preparation must be done the day of the event within the
    licensed temporary food stand.
    *Menus must be adjusted at accommodate production
    needs.*
  - Ingredients for menu items must be obtained from a
    licensed and approved source such as a grocery store, a
    federal or state inspected meat locker, or the food stand
    owner's licensed food establishment, food processing plant,
    or licensed mobile food unit.
  - Menu items may be prepared in the organizations' licensed
    restaurant, food processing plant, ot mobile unit and
    appropriately transported to the food stand for service.
  - Menu items may be prepared within the licensed temporary
    food stand the day of the event.  No food may be prepared
    prior to the event unless it is done in the food stand owner's
    licensed food eastablishment, food processing plant, or
    mobile food unit and noted on the license application.
• Non-profit organizations may serve packages or unpackaged foods that do not require temperaure control from any source.  Examples - baked goods and fruit pies made by organization members.
• Pies that require temperature control for safety, such as cream pies, custard pies, meat pies must be prepared in or purchased from a licensed food establishment or food processing plant (receipts must be provided).  These types of pies may only be cut within the licensed temporary food stand or in a licensed food establishment, food processing plant, or mobile food unit.

When is a Non-Profit Organization exempt from licensing requirements?

1. When serving, selling, or providing food and beverages on the premises (premises=the physical facility, its contents, and the contiguous land or property under the control of the organization) regularly used by the non-profit organization for one day per calendar week, or
2. Twice per calendar year a non-profit organization may serve food to the public up to 3 consecutive days from their regularly used premises, or
3. Twice per calendar year a non-profit organization may use the premises of another non-profit organization for one day (each time to serve food, or
4. When operating off the premises regularly used by the non-profit organization serving, selling, or providing only pre-packaged food or beverage that does not require temperature control for safety.  Examples - bottles sodas, packaged candy, packaged chips, packaged granola bars, etc. that are purchased from a store or food purveyor, or
5. When operating off the premises regularly used by the non-profit organization serving, selling, or providing pre-packaged food that does not require temperature control for safety that is prepared and packaged by non-profit organization members or family members.  Examples - brownies, cookies, fruit pie, etc.  *These foods may be prepared in any clean sanitary location and must be served in labeled packages containing the name and address of the person making the food and the common name of the food.
6. When serving, selling, or providing whole, uncut fruits and vegetables.

What food may be served when a non-profit organization meets licensing exemptions 1-3?

When foor or beverage that is prepared and served safely can be provided by a non-profit organization who meets licensing exemptions 1-3 above.

*Food Vendors are responsible for applying for and obtaining their license (City organizers do not isse food licenses to sell food - only permits to operate in the city).

*No online payment service is available.  License applications must be mailed to the appropriate Regulatory Authority and must be received in enought time to ensure that licenses can be emailed or mailed back to the vendor prior to the event.*