Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection › ATCP 55-89 - Food, Lodging, and Recreation Safety › Chapter ATCP 74 - Local Agents and Regulation › Section ATCP 74.01 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Agent" means a local health department
				as defined in s.
				250.01(4),
				Stats., that has entered into a contract with the department and is authorized
				under the terms of that contract to administer a retail food establishment,
				lodging, and recreational safety regulatory program, pursuant to s. 97.41 and
				97.615(2),
				Stats., in the health department's area of jurisdiction.
(2) "Agent program" means the retail food
				establishment, lodging, and recreational safety regulatory program operated by
				an agent.
(3) "Contract" means a
				signed, written agreement between a local health department and the department
				setting forth the obligations of each party in the operation of an agent
				program.
(4) "Department" means the
				Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade, and consumer protection.
(5) "Establishment" means a retail food
				establishment, hotel or motel, tourist rooming house, bed and breakfast
				establishment, vending machine, vending machine commissary, camping resort or
				other campground, recreational camp, educational camp, public pool, or water
				attraction licensed pursuant to ch. 97, Stats.
(6) "Fiscal year" means July 1 of one year
				through June 30 of the next year.
(7) "Food" has the meaning given in s.
				97.01(6),
				Stats.
(8) "Inspection fee" means a
				fee charged by the agent program, the amount of which is reasonably related to
				the cost of performing an assessment of an establishment's compliance with the
				statutes and rules, under which a license is granted.
(9) "Inspector" means any employee inspecting
				establishments for the department or the agent under the jurisdiction of an
				agent program.
(10) "License" means
				the legal authority granted by the department or its agent to operate an
				establishment.
(11) "Licensee"
				means the person or entity licensed to operate an establishment as defined in
				sub. (5).
(12) "New agent" means an
				agent that has entered into its first contract with the department or an agent
				that has applied to re-enter into a contract with the department after
				termination of a previous contract.
(13) "Registered environmental health
				specialist/registered sanitarian" or "REHS/RS" means a person who holds a
				REHS/RS credential awarded by the National Environmental Health
				Association.
(14) "Registered
				sanitarian" or "RS" means an individual who is a Wisconsin-registered
				sanitarian, pursuant to s.
				440.98,
				Stats., and chs.
				SPS 174 to 177, or is recognized
				as a registered environmental health specialist/registered
				sanitarian.
(15) "Restaurant" means
				a retail food establishment as defined in s.
				97.01(14g),
				Stats.
(16) "Retail food
				establishment" has the meaning defined in s.
				97.30(1)
				(c), Stats.
(17) "Sanitarian" means a person who is
				qualified to conduct inspections as an agent of the department and meets the
				requirements under s.
				ATCP
				74.08(2).
(18) "Standard" means a department or agent
				employee who is certified as correctly interpreting and enforcing chs.
				ATCP 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, and 79
				and ch. ATCP 75 Appendix.
(19)
				"Standardization exercise" means an evaluation conducted by a standard to
				determine if a sanitarian is correctly interpreting and enforcing chs.
				ATCP 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, and 79
				and ch. ATCP 75 Appendix.