Livonia, MI Public Health Rules: Food Handler Certification (2026)

140 bars restaurants from employing anyone who has not first obtained a food-handler's card of current issue. The process starts with a form the code calls the food-handler's responsibility agreement, supplied by the city clerk, on which the employee attests he is not infected with a disease in communicable form. That signed form goes to the health department, and only if the health department approves it does the city clerk or health officer issue the card. Cards run for one calendar year from the date of issue, after which the employee has to secure a new card the same way, so restaurants must track renewal dates for every food-handling worker rather than treating the card as a one-time credential.

130's disease-control rule, which separately bars any restaurant from knowingly employing a person with a communicable disease and requires the manager to notify the health officer if one is suspected. 100 also lets the health department disapprove a new restaurant license application and refer the matter to the city council, so an operator who cannot show compliant, current food-handler's cards for staff risks that scrutiny at the licensing stage, not just after opening.