Jefferson County, WI Public Health Rules: Food Handler Certification (2026)

" The 90-day clock runs from licensing or from whenever the department otherwise identifies the gap, and the specific dollar amount is set separately in the county's board-adopted fee schedule rather than fixed in the ordinance text itself. This fee sits alongside the article's other cost provisions: § 18-25(3) requires pre-inspections for establishments within the scope of Wis. ch. 97 and Wis. Admin. Code ch. SPS 221, the state food-code chapters the county administers as a state agent under § 18-20(e), § 18-25(4) adds late fees for licenses paid after July 1, and § 18-25(5) charges a re-inspection fee whenever the department has to return to confirm a violation was fixed.

Because § 18-19 limits this article's reach to "all parts of the county except the City of Watertown," the fee, and the underlying certified-manager expectation behind it, applies to retail food establishments, restaurants and other licensed food operations in the unincorporated towns and the other incorporated municipalities the county health department serves, not to establishments licensed directly by the City of Watertown's own health authority.