1715.04 PLANS.

   No person, firm, association or corporation shall construct, install, provide, equip or extensively alter a food establishment until the plans therefor have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Board of Health. When such plans are submitted to the Board of Health they shall be acted upon within thirty days after date of receipt.

   The provisions of Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3701 relating to the submission of plans and specifications for proposed water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal, plumbing, drainage and sanitary equipment shall apply to food establishments. In addition, the plans and specifications submitted for the approval of the Board of Health shall clearly show and describe compliance with sanitation requirements of Section 1715.05.

   The plans and specifications shall include:

   (a)    The total area in square feet to be used for the food establishment;

   (b)    Entrances and exits;

   (c)    Location, number and types of plumbing fixtures including all water supply facilities;

   (d)    Plan of lighting, both natural and artificial;

   (e)    All rooms in which the food establishment activities are to be conducted;

   (f)    General layout of fixtures and other equipment;

   (g)    Building materials to be used.

   All new equipment used in a food establishment shall be of a type approved by the Board of Health. All such equipment shall be of such material and so constructed and installed as to readily conform with Section 1715.05.

(Ord. 96-29. Passed 1-31-96.)