Upland, CA Public Health Rules: Restaurant Grade Cards (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopting section
- UMC § 8.24.010
- Adopted code
- SB County Code Title 3, Div. 3, Ch. 14
- Enforcing agency
- SB County Environmental Health Services
- City appeal process
- none, handled by the county
Summary
Upland does not run its own restaurant inspection program. Municipal Code Section 8.24.010 adopts Chapter 14, Division 3, Title 3 of the San Bernardino County Code by reference, putting food establishment inspection grading in the county's hands citywide.
§ 8.24.010. Adoption of portions of the San Bernardino County Code. Chapter 14 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the San Bernardino County Code, relating to inspection grading of food establishments, is adopted by reference. § 8.24.020. Copies filed. A certified copy of Chapter 14 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the San Bernardino County code, as adopted in Section 8.24.010, has been deposited with the city clerk, and shall be at all times maintained for the city clerk for use and examination by the public.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4480959; v4 updated 2025-09-22).
Full Breakdown
Rather than write its own grading placard system, Upland folds restaurant inspection grading into county law wholesale. 24 titled Inspection Grading of Food Establishments, adopts by reference Chapter 14 of Division 3 of Title 3 of the San Bernardino County Code, the county's food establishment grading ordinance. Because of that adoption, every restaurant, market, and food facility operating inside Upland city limits is inspected and graded under San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Services standards, the same ones that apply in unincorporated county territory and in most other cities the county contracts with.
020 backs the adoption up procedurally: it requires a certified copy of the adopted county chapter to be kept on file with the Upland city clerk at all times for public examination, which is how a city can adopt an outside code by reference under California law without reprinting the whole text into its own municipal code. Practically, this means Upland has no separate city health inspector, no separate city-specific grade card design, and no separate city appeal process for a grading dispute; anyone questioning a placard posted at an Upland restaurant is dealing with the county's Environmental Health Services division, not city staff, even though the requirement is codified in the Upland Municipal Code.
Violations & Fines
Because Upland enforces the county's grading chapter by reference rather than a locally defined penalty schedule, violations of the adopted inspection and grading requirements are handled through San Bernardino County Environmental Health Services' own enforcement and re-inspection procedures; a general Upland code violation, absent a more specific penalty, still defaults to the misdemeanor standard in Section 1.16.010, up to a $1,000 fine or six months in jail.
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