Section 143-A:5 - Exemptions The following establishments and events shall be exempt from departmental licensure and inspection under this chapter, except that the department may inspect when the department has reason to suspect an imminent health hazard as defined in RSA 143-A:3, IV-b:
I. Food service establishments and retail food stores licensed by city health officers under RSA 47:17.II. Food service establishments and retail food stores licensed by town health officers under RSA 147:1.III. Temporary food service establishments and occasional food service establishments and occasional food service events which are not under the jurisdiction of city or town health officers under RSA 147:1 and RSA 47:17.IV. Recreation camps inspected and licensed under RSA 170-E, including recreation camps that offer food to camp families or alumni in the 45 days prior to or after the camp operating season.V. Health care facilities inspected and licensed under RSA 151.VI. Child care facilities inspected and licensed under RSA 170-E.VII. Homestead food operations selling food, excluding potentially hazardous food as defined in RSA 143-A:12, I(b), from the homestead residence, at the owner's farm stand, or at farmers' markets.VIII. A farm owned or operated by a federally exempt poultry producer, as defined in RSA 143-A:14, I, and the direct sale of such poultry to the consumer from the producer's farm, at the producer's farm stand, and by the producer at a farmers market, or when sold to a licensed restaurant in accordance with RSA 143-A:14 through RSA 143-A:17.IX. A farm owned or operated by any person, firm, or corporation that raises bison, elk, or red deer for human consumption, and the direct sale within this state of the carcasses, parts, meat, and meat food products of such animals, when slaughtered and processed in accordance with RSA 427:2-a, IV, to the consumer from such farm, at the producer's farm stand, and by the producer at farmers' markets, or when sold to a licensed restaurant in accordance with RSA 143-A:20.Amended by 2023, 180:2, eff. 10/3/2023.Amended by 2023, 180:1, eff. 10/3/2023.Amended by 2022 , 133: 1, eff. 8/6/2022.Amended by 2022 , 272: 30, eff. 6/24/2022.Amended by 2017 , 145: 12, eff. 8/15/2017.Amended by 2017 , 87: 3, eff. 7/1/2017.Amended by 2016 , 36: 1, eff. 7/2/2016.Amended by 2014 , 165: 1, eff. 10/9/2014.Amended by 2014 , 171: 2, eff. 9/9/2014.Amended by 2012 , 163: 1, eff. 6/7/2012. 1986, 106:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1987. 2005, 229:5, 6, eff. Sept. 9, 2005.