§ 101450 City Health Sanitation Authority

• •The city must act to protect public health.
• •It can make sanitation rules like cleaning standards for businesses.
• •Any city rule must not conflict with higher (state or federal) laws.

The city notices that some restaurants aren’t cleaning their kitchens properly, so it creates a rule that all restaurants must clean surfaces every hour.

Because the city has the power to set sanitation rules, it can require the restaurants to follow the cleaning schedule. If a restaurant ignores the rule, the city can fine or shut it down, as long as the rule doesn’t break any state or federal law.