Title: Prohibits Single-Use Plastic Straws at Restaurants Unless Asked For
Signed by Governor Kate Brown
Title: Prohibits Single-Use Plastic Straws at Restaurants Unless Asked For
Title: Prohibits Single-Use Plastic Straws at Restaurants Unless Asked For
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits single-use plastic straws at restaurants unless asked for one directly.
Prohibits a food and beverage provider or convenience store from providing single-use plastic straw to a consumer unless the consumer specifically requests the single-use plastic straw (Sec. 1).
Exempts health care facilities and residential care facilities that provide single-use plastic straws to patients or residents from the definition of “food and beverage provider” (Sec. 1).
Authorizes a consumer to request, and food and beverage provider or a convenience store to offer to the consumer, a single-use plastic straw in an area of the food service provider’s or convenience store’s premises in which the consumer can receive a delivery of prepared food or beverage while seated in or on a vehicle (Sec. 1).
Exempts a convenience store that does the following from the prohibition in this act (Sec. 1):
Sells or offers single-use plastic straws for sale in bulk or unconnected with a sale or provision of food or a beverage; or
Makes single-use plastic straws available to consumers in an unattended location, provided that the convenience store leaves the single-use plastic straws in an unattended location only if the convenience store does not have space in which to store the single-use plastic straws in a location where employees of the convenience store provide service to consumers.
Specifies that a food and beverage provider or convenience store found in violation of this bill will be issued a notice for first and second violations, and will be fined no more than $25 for each day in which the food and beverage provider or convenience store remains in violation, for third and subsequent violations (Sec. 1).
Authorizes an enforcement officer to enforce this bill in the course conducting an inspection (Sec. 1).
Prohibits the enforcement officer from imposing fines of more than $300 during a calendar year for a food and beverage provider’s or convenience store’s violation (Sec. 1).
Prohibits a local government or municipality from enacting an ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule or other law with requirements that differ from the provision in this act (Sec. 2).
Specifies this act becomes operative on January 1, 2020 (Sec. 3).
Title: Prohibits Single-Use Plastic Straws at Restaurants Unless Asked For
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits single-use plastic straws at restaurants unless asked for one directly.
Prohibits a food and beverage provider or convenience store from providing single-use plastic straw to a consumer unless the consumer specifically requests the single-use plastic straw (Sec. 1).
Authorizes a consumer to request, and food and beverage provider or a convenience store to offer to the consumer, a single-use plastic straw in an area of the food service provider’s or convenience store’s premises in which the consumer can receive a delivery of prepared food or beverage while seated in or on a vehicle (Sec. 1).
Exempts a convenience store that does the following from the prohibition in this act (Sec. 1):
Sells or offers single-use plastic straws for sale in bulk or unconnected with a sale or provision of food or a beverage; or
Makes single-use plastic straws available to consumers in an unattended location, provided that the convenience store leaves the single-use plastic straws in an unattended location only if the convenience store does not have space in which to store the single-use plastic straws in a location where employees of the convenience store provide service to consumers.
Specifies that a food and beverage provider or convenience store found in violation of this bill will be issued a notice for first and second violations, and will be fined no more than $25 for each day in which the food and beverage provider or convenience store remains in violation, for third and subsequent violations (Sec. 1).
Authorizes an enforcement officer to enforce this bill in the course conducting an inspection (Sec. 1).
Prohibits the enforcement officer from imposing fines of more than $300 during a calendar year for a food and beverage provider’s or convenience store’s violation (Sec. 1).
Prohibits a local government or municipality from enacting an ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule or other law with requirements that differ from the provision in this act (Sec. 2).
Specifies this act becomes operative on January 1, 2020 (Sec. 3).
Title: Prohibits Single-Use Plastic Straws at Restaurants Unless Asked For