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Council responds to state rules by revising local food-establishment fees; council removes select charges
Summary
Faced with recent state legislation limiting local fee authority and changing mobile vendor permits, the council moved to remove several fees the city can no longer charge and adjusted temporary-event fees to comply with new state rules.
The Abilene City Council heard a presentation from Annette Larma, director of public health, on proposed changes to the city’s food-establishment fee schedule and approved a motion removing specified fees that the city may no longer collect under new state law.
Larma said Senate Bill 1008 and House Bill 2844 (as referenced in the staff presentation) limit the local authority to charge certain inspections and move responsibility for some mobile food vendor permits to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). She told the council…
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