(a) A food service business must not sell or provide food in polystyrene food service products, regardless of where the food will be consumed.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1) food or beverages that were filled and packaged in polystyrene containers outside of the County before a food service business received them; or
(2) materials used to package raw, uncooked, or butchered meat, fish, poultry, or seafood for off- premises consumption. (2015 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 1; 2020 L.M.C., ch. 34, §1.)
Editor’s note—2020 L.M.C., ch. 34, §2, states: Effective Date. The prohibition on use of polystyrene food service products contained in Section 48-53 and the prohibition on the sale of polystyrene food service products contained in Section 48-56 take effect 12 months after this Act becomes law, or on January 1, 2022, whichever comes first.
2015 L.M.C., ch. 1, § 2, states, in part: Effective date.