San Francisco County Municipal Code § 249.11 Temporary

EVENTS; FEES. (a) Temporary permits, effective for a period of one to 90 days, and annual permits will be granted by the Department of Public Health (“Department”) to operate establishments under Section 248 – Food Product and Marketing Establishments and Section 249.1 – Food Preparation and Service Establishments. (b) Business concerns whose regular sales activities concern products or commodities other than food, but sell or give away food periodically for sales promotion purposes shall obtain either a temporary or annual permit prescribed by this Section 249.11. (c) Temporary Special Event permits will be granted by the Department to operate special events referred to in Section 451 and subsection 452(g) of the Health Code upon payment of fees listed as follows: (1) Application fees, per event: (A) Event sponsor: $180; (B) Food operator, where all food sold or distributed and the method of processing the food is considered to be low in potential hazard by the Department: $50; (C) Food operator, where any food sold or distributed or the method of processing the food is considered to be high in potential hazard by the Department: $130. (2) Permit fees, per location: (A) $74 for up to two days, and $50 for each additional day, where all food sold or distributed and the method of processing the food is considered to be low in potential hazard by the Department; (B) $114 for up to two days, and $50 for each additional day, where any food sold or distributed or the method of processing the food is considered to be high in potential hazard by the Department. (d) Annual Special Event permits will be granted by the Department to operate at special events referred to in Section 451 and subsection 452(g) of the Health Code upon payment of the fees listed as follows: (1) Application fees: (A) Food operator, where all food sold or distributed and the method of processing the food is considered to be low in potential hazard by the Department: $401; (B) Food operator, where any food sold or distributed or the method of processing the food is considered to be high in potential hazard by the Department: $401. (2) Permit fees: (A) Food operator, where all food sold or distributed and the method of processing the food is considered to be low in potential hazard by the Department: $353; (B) Food operator, where any food sold or distributed or the method of processing the food is considered to be high in potential

hazard by the Department: $588. The annual fees set forth in this subsection (d) shall be paid annually on or before March 31, in accordance with Section 76.1 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code.* Notwithstanding the foregoing, for periods beginning on or after April 1, 2026, the Annual Special Event permit fees in subsection (d)(2) shall be $0. (e) Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026 and annually thereafter, the fees set forth in this Section 249.11 may be adjusted each year, without further action by the Board of Supervisors, as set forth in this subsection (e). Not later than April 1, the Department shall report to the Controller the revenues generated by the fees for the prior fiscal year and the prior fiscal year’s costs of operation, as well as any other information that the Controller determines appropriate to the performance of the duties set forth in this Section. Not later than May 15, the Controller shall determine whether the current fees have produced or are projected to produce revenues sufficient to support the costs of providing the services for which the fee is assessed and that the fees will not produce revenue that is significantly more than the costs of providing the services for which the fee is assessed. The Controller shall, if necessary, adjust the fees upward or downward for the upcoming fiscal year as appropriate to ensure that the program recovers the costs of operation without producing revenue that is significantly more than such costs. The adjusted rates shall become operative on July 1. (Amended by Ord. 531-78, App. 12/1/78; Ord. 341-88, App. 7/28/88; Ord. 207-93, App. 6/25/93; Ord. 84-00, File No. 000424, App. 5/12/2000; Ord. 149-08, File No. 080744, App. 7/30/2008; Ord. 252-19, File No. 190710, App. 11/15/2019, Eff. 12/16/2019; Ord. 203-24, File No. 240406, App. 8/1/2024, Eff. 9/1/2024; Ord. 279-24, File No. 240926, App. 12/19/2024, Eff. 1/19/2025, Oper. 2/1/2025)