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Show Restaurant fees remain 'unstable' it could be used" as a standard. The fee would be charged once a year and would tie into the health department's inspections carried on several times a year in restaurants res-taurants and other facilities whre food is prepared, handled and-or dispensed. Several other ordinance changes are being studied although action could be a year or more in coming and would be in phases, Mr. Harvey Har-vey said. Pre-schools are booking , 1'looked at" into an effort to get "some specific regulations dealing with them," he explained, emphasizing empha-sizing "It's not our intent to become be-come more regulatory, or any more involved in enforcing the law than we already are. It would simply put us in a position where it saves us time, money and administration of our various programs. "We're able more effectively to deal with problems and various ordinances," he said. That refers largely to the myriad of different yet similar ordinances on the books in the county's IS cities as well as in the unincorporated county. Currently, state pre-school guidelines are being drafted that would be more specific. "If someone some-one can keep a large group of kids, and as long as they don't keep them longer than three hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds (a day)" there aren't the same regulations. "There are still some major health consequences but are no standards," Mr. Harvey said. "Cities are continually asking us to deal with pre-schools, to help them set the facilities up. We'd feel more comfortable having some specific regulations dealing with" in various va-rious sorts of pre-schools. "We'd also like to get into some type of regulation to protect our employees and give us some guidelines guide-lines in dealing with emergency response re-sponse situations," he said, referring refer-ring to everything from oil spills to train wrecks. "In one week, we have very little lit-tle activity and then in three days we have five spills," Mr. Harvey recalled of a couple weeks ago. Other areas to be addressed include in-clude an updating on how to deal with rodent control. "This ties into the complaints. How do we handle various complaints, the abating of nuisances, accumulations of trash, etc. "We need broad nuisance-complaint-type regulations to give us something to sight when we're dealing with those problems," he said. Changes in dealing with housing code enforcement also may be looked at. Current ordinances were adopted in the late 1960's. "A lot of things have changed--the philosophy phi-losophy in building codes, method of enforcement," he explained. The county environmental health division will also assume more responsibility in inspections of meat markets, grocery stores and bakeries, taking over from the federal Agriculture Department, he said. By TOM BUSSELBERG FARM1NGTON -- Restaurant permit fees could become an issue in Davis County, again, depending on what the county's southern neighbor does. Salt Lake County officials were due to take action on a proposal there that would resemble a Davis proposal that went up in smoke after af-ter a court decision, three years ago. The proposal would have seen restaurant fees levied based on the number of "service bays" and seats. "We're watching Salt Lake County to see how things come out there," said Richard Harvey, Davis County's environmental health director. "They are proposing propos-ing something very similar to what we proposed three years ago." He said Salt Lake, Weber, Utah and Davis officials have all put their heads together in this latest proposal. "We decided to come up with a fairly consistent fee schedule." sche-dule." Reiterating some of the explanation explana-tion used for the fee proposal previously, pre-viously, Mr. Harvey said it's "some way to relate to the size and complexity of the facility." Salt Lake's fee schedule would range from $40 to $100 with six different dif-ferent categories. In addition to restaurants, fees would also be implemented in Salt Lake for warehouses, bakeries, grocery stores and other facilities based on a square foot basis. Day care centers and other smaller smal-ler facilities that provide limited food service would also be included. in-cluded. "The State Legislature is pushing for user fees very extensively," exten-sively," he continued, noting "I feel the wording and interpretation in Salt Lake County's (proposal) is pretty good. There's a major probability prob-ability that properly implemented, |