Yucaipa, CA Public Health Rules: Restaurant Grade Cards (2026)

Chapter 5.26 of the Yucaipa Municipal Code applies anywhere within the City of Yucaipa that food or beverage products are sold or served (§ 5.26.010). Rather than writing its own grading scale, the city adopts by reference San Bernardino County Ordinance No. 3930, which added Chapter 14 to Division 3 of Title 3 of the San Bernardino County Code on inspection grading of food establishments, and it treats those county sections as the city's inspection grading program (§ 5.26.020).

The San Bernardino County department of public health is the designated enforcement agency for the city and supplies the qualified personnel to enforce the chapter (§ 5.26.030). The fee schedule inside Ordinance No. 3930 is adopted as the fees in effect in the city. The Yucaipa City Council found those fees reasonably related to the actual cost of administration and enforcement, and the county department administers and collects them for deposit with the county treasurer (§ 5.26.040).

The posting rule sits in § 5.26.050. It ties the city to Section 33.1406(c) of the San Bernardino County Code: the letter grade card posted under the program cannot be defaced, marred, camouflaged, hidden or removed, and it is unlawful to operate a food establishment unless the letter grade is posted. The chapter dates to Ordinance 238, adopted in 2005. The city chapter does not restate the grading criteria themselves; those come from the county ordinance it incorporates.