Fla. Stat. 509.039
Food service manager certification

It is the duty of the division to adopt, by rule, food safety protection standards for the training and certification of all food service managers who are responsible for the storage, preparation, display, or serving of foods to the public in establishments regulated under this chapter. The standards adopted by the division shall be consistent with the Standards for Accreditation of Food Protection Manager Certification Programs adopted by the Conference for Food Protection. These standards are to be adopted by the division to ensure that, upon successfully passing a test, approved by the Conference for Food Protection, a manager of a food service establishment shall have demonstrated a knowledge of basic food protection practices. The division may contract with an organization offering a training and certification program that complies with division standards and results in a certification recognized by the Conference for Food Protection to conduct an approved test and certify all test results to the division. Other organizations offering programs that meet the same requirements may also conduct approved tests and certify all test results to the division. The division may charge the organization it contracts with a fee of not more than $5 per certified test to cover the administrative costs of the division for the food service manager training and certification program. All managers employed by a food service establishment must have passed an approved test and received a certificate attesting thereto. Managers have a period of 30 days after employment to pass the required test. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of food service manager certification upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment. The ranking of food service establishments is also preempted to the state; provided, however, that any local ordinances establishing a ranking system in existence prior to October 1, 1988, may remain in effect.

Source: Section 509.039 — Food service manager certification, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0509.­039 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

509.013
Definitions 509.032
Duties 509.034
Application 509.035
Immediate closure due to severe public health threat 509.036
Public food service inspector standardization 509.039
Food service manager certification 509.049
Food service employee training 509.072
Hotel and Restaurant Trust Fund 509.091
Notices 509.092
Public lodging establishments and public food service establishments 509.095
Accommodations at public lodging establishments for individuals with a valid military identification card 509.096
Human trafficking awareness training and policies for public lodging establishments 509.098
Prohibition of hourly rates 509.101
Establishment rules 509.102
Mobile food dispensing vehicles 509.103
Food delivery platforms 509.111
Liability for property of guests 509.141
Refusal of admission and ejection of undesirable guests 509.142
Conduct on premises 509.143
Disorderly conduct on the premises of an establishment 509.144
Prohibited handbill distribution in a public lodging establishment 509.151
Obtaining food or lodging with intent to defraud 509.161
Rules of evidence in prosecutions 509.162
Theft of personal property 509.191
Unclaimed property 509.211
Safety regulations 509.213
Emergency first aid to choking victims 509.214
Notification of automatic gratuity charge 509.215
Firesafety 509.221
Sanitary regulations 509.232
School carnivals and fairs 509.233
Public food service establishment requirements 509.241
Licenses required 509.242
Public lodging establishments 509.251
License fees 509.261
Revocation or suspension of licenses 509.271
Prerequisite for issuance of municipal or county occupational license 509.281
Prosecution for violation 509.285
Enforcement 509.291
Advisory council 509.292
Misrepresenting food or food product 509.302
Hospitality Education Program 509.401
Operator’s right to lockout 509.402
Operator’s right to recover premises 509.403
Operator’s writ of distress 509.404
Writ of distress 509.405
Complaint 509.406
Prejudgment writ of distress 509.407
Writ of distress 509.408
Prejudgment writ 509.409
Writ 509.411
Exemptions from writ of distress 509.412
Writ 509.413
Judgment for plaintiff when goods not delivered to defendant 509.414
Judgment for plaintiff when goods retained by or redelivered to defendant 509.415
Judgment for defendant when goods are retained by or redelivered to the defendant 509.416
Judgment for defendant when goods are not retained by or redelivered to the defendant 509.417
Writ 509.2015
Telephone surcharges by public lodging establishments 509.2112
Public lodging establishments three stories or more in height 509.2151
Dining facility firesafety requirement limitation 509.4005
Applicability of ss

Current through Fall 2025

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