BERNSON ENDORSES RESTAURANT GRADES.Byline: Lee Condon and Rick Orlov Daily News Staff Writers Seeking to close a loophole An omission or Ambiguity in a legal document that allows the intent of the document to be evaded. Loopholes come into being through the passage of statutes, the enactment of regulations, the drafting of contracts or the decisions of courts. in the county's tough new restaurant inspection law, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Councilman Hal Bernson Hal Bernson served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 12th district. He was chair of the Transportation Committee. Prior to being on the City Council, he served in the Navy. Preceded by Robert M. proposed an ordinance Tuesday to require restaurants in the city to post their health rating. Bernson's motion calls on the City Attorney's Office to immediately draft the necessary laws to require the postings. The proposal will be considered by the full council next week. ``This is a worthy program and deserves our immediate attention,'' said Bernson. The action came in response to a Daily News story that found restaurants outside of unincorporated Adj. 1. unincorporated - not organized and maintained as a legal corporation unorganised, unorganized - not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government" county areas were not required to post the ratings as part of a new health inspection law approved by county supervisors in December. The county supervisors Tuesday called on the city councils of 85 municipalities in the county to ratify laws requiring the postings as soon as possible. Until the cities pass the new law, county inspectors will not be able to force restaurants to post letter grades of A, B or C at their entrances. The grades, similar to those given on a school report card, are a key requirement of the new county law. While some city leaders have said they had no idea they had to adopt their own ordinance, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. said county officials notified the 85 contract cities of the requirement in December. ``We included a copy of the ordinance. All they have to do is put the ordinance on their agenda and adopt it,'' Yaroslavsky said. The board directed that letters be sent again to the mayors of the 85 cities that contract with the county for public health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract . De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. Clinton, county counsel, said cities generally adopt the county rules without protest. ``Over the years, they have routinely done it when we've asked them,'' Clinton said. However, the supervisors also asked county lawyers to draft proposed state legislation that would force cities contracting with the county for public health services to comply with county public health laws. That would eliminate the need for the cities to pass their own identical ordinance every time the county amends its public health laws. Most cities contract with the Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
County health inspectors A health inspector, or Environmental Health Specialist is a public employee who investigates health hazards in a wide variety of locations, then will take action to mitigate or eliminate the hazards. have more than tripled the number of restaurants closed per month under the new stricter laws. They were put in place shortly after a KCBS-TV (Channel 2) news report on filthy conditions in county restaurants. Yaroslavsky said restaurants who refuse to post their letter grades are not fooling the public. ``If they don't have a letter in their window, obviously they don't want people to know what their grade is,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``If you don't have a letter, obviously you're ashamed of what they want to put up there.'' |
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