Lemonade Stand needs permit

[Abu3baid]

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/police-shut-down-girls-lemonade-stand-for-121207241667.html

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According to a Texas law, the sale of food that requires temperature control to prevent spoiling is illegal without a permit. “It’s because of the bacteria that can grow in the lemonade,” Carter says. “The popcorn they were selling was perfectly legal.”

The gist of the story is that the police were very kind, and provided all the needed paperwork and even agreed to waive the $150 permit fee.  (the girls were only trying to raise $105 btw)

The townhall told them to go to the health department and the parents thought it was just too much of a hassle getting the run around.

The result is?

Quote:

Instead of pursuing the permit, the girls will set up a new stand this Saturday, according to KLTV: free lemonade, donations welcome.

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I feel like the public needs these kinds of regulations for sure, however not for a lemonade stand being run by 7-8 year old girls.. when you go to a lemonade stand you know what you are getting.. most of the time you are going to it to just support what ever cause and not for the lemonade its self (although I am sure sometimes the lemonade is really good)..

Is the State of Texas (and others that have these laws on the books) going to far??

[mmoan2]

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/police-shut-down-girls-lemonade-stand-for-121207241667.html

The gist of the story is that the police were very kind, and provided all the needed paperwork and even agreed to waive the $150 permit fee.  (the girls were only trying to raise $105 btw)

The townhall told them to go to the health department and the parents thought it was just too much of a hassle getting the run around.

The result is?

I feel like the public needs these kinds of regulations for sure, however not for a lemonade stand being run by 7-8 year old girls.. when you go to a lemonade stand you know what you are getting.. most of the time you are going to it to just support what ever cause and not for the lemonade its self (although I am sure sometimes the lemonade is really good)..

Is the State of Texas (and others that have these laws on the books) going to far??

The laws are required, but this is a case of the humans being victim to their own laws.

[k-troop]

Not that the state is going too far, but more like ubiquitous access to media and the 24-hour non-news cycle makes this a story.  The public health committee of the Texas Legislature probably never considered the impact a perfectly sensible health code provision would have on schoolgirl lemonade stands.  The reality is that law enforcement should use their constitutional discretion to not enforce the law against schoolgirl lemonade stands, and in fact that's probably what happens 99.9% of the time.

Unfortunately, Texans will probably see this as an infringement on their rahts, and the legislature will waste precious session hours debating the freedom inherent to all Texans to engage in toddler commerce.  Which will, of course, distract them from legitimate, pressing concerns, like whether to re-write the state's history curriculum to reflect the presence of Jesus at the Alamo, or where and how to best defend against an invasion from the United States.

(I am a Texan, and I love my state.  But we have some whackadoos there.)