San Angelo, TX Public Health Rules: Food Handler Certification (2026)

002 adopts by reference the current rules of the Texas Department of State Health Services found at 25 Texas Administrative Code chapter 228, known as the Texas Food Establishment Rules (TFER), and applies them to every food establishment operating in the city. 001 defines a food establishment as a food service establishment, retail food store, mobile food unit or roadside food vendor, and names the San Angelo-Tom Green County health department as the regulatory authority responsible for enforcing both the state rules and this article.

003 layers on a local requirement: any self-service buffet or food bar must be equipped with a sneeze guard, except when the permitted establishment is doing off-site catering. 031 requires a permit from the regulatory authority before anyone may operate a food establishment, with a separate permit required for each service area, and the permit must be posted where the public can see it; nonprofit operators are exempt from the permit fee but not from the state certification and training rules. 032 requires the health department to inspect the establishment for compliance with both TFER and this article, and a noncompliant establishment can be denied a permit or a renewal.

034 let the department suspend a permit without a hearing when an establishment poses an imminent health hazard, or revoke it after a hearing for serious or repeated violations, in each case giving the permit holder ten days to request a hearing before the action becomes final.