{"data":{"id":"us-mt/50-50-301","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"50-50-301","heading":"Health officers and sanitarians to make investigations and inspections -- training requirements.","body":"(1) State and local health officers, sanitarians-in-training, and registered sanitarians shall make investigations and inspections of retail food establishments once a year and make reports to the department as required under rules adopted by the department. An inspection may be conducted more often than once a year.\n(2) A person conducting an inspection must be certified and have completed a food safety training program, such as the program administered by the national restaurant association educational foundation or its equivalent.\n(3) (a) A cottage food operation is not subject to inspection under this section unless the state or local health officer is investigating a complaint based on an illness or an outbreak suspected to be directly related to cottage food products.\n(b) A cottage food operation may request an inspection and pay the appropriate costs for that inspection on a voluntary basis.\n(4) A producer as defined in 50-49-202 selling homemade food or a homemade food product pursuant to Title 50, chapter 49, part 2, is not subject to inspection under this section unless the state or local health officer is investigating a complaint based on an illness or an outbreak suspected to be directly related to that homemade food or homemade food product.","path":["TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY","CHAPTER 50. RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS","Part 3. Inspections"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0500/chapter_0500/part_0030/section_0010/0500-0500-0030-0010.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:56:31Z","sha256":"8496805a6659b6d1d1f090ec0c9bf3a17d36ee29ffd5edb340e29e4cd6227ef6","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/50-50-217","next":"us-mt/50-50-302"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}