Morgan County Board of Health / Morgan County Health Department, Environmental Health

Food Establishment Health Permit

Any restaurant, coffee shop, food truck, or childcare facility that prepares or serves food on-site in Morgan County needs this health permit from the Morgan County Board of Health, which holds genuine statutory authority to set its own fees for county health department services, subject only to Morgan County Commission approval, under Ala. Code §45-52-171 (Act 88-425). This applies countywide, inside every incorporated city and the unincorporated area alike, since a single county health department covers the whole county. The fee figures on record here — a Full-Time permit at $125.00, $150.00 or $175.00 by employee-count tier, a Part-Time permit at $60.00, $70.00 or $85.00, and a $40.00 Temporary permit for events of 15 days or fewer — are the Morgan County Health Department's own published figures, dated 2016 and still linked from the department's site navigation as late as July 2022. The department's dedicated website has since gone offline, and Alabama's state health department does not publish a Morgan-specific fee schedule page as a substitute, so 2016 remains the last published figure for this permit; call the Health Department's Environmental Office at (256) 340-6563, or the main line (256) 353-7021 and ask for Environmental, to confirm the amount currently charged. A childcare facility that prepares or serves food on-site falls under this same Board of Health permit, the general pattern by which Alabama childcare facilities incorporate a local health-department food approval into their operations, separate from and in addition to their state DHR childcare license.