Licensing and Inspections

Annual license permits and pre-inspections are required according to Wisconsin statute as follows:

WI Stat. 254.64 (1) (a) No person may conduct, maintain, manage or operate a hotel, restaurant, temporary restaurant, tourist rooming house, vending machine commissary or vending machine if the person has not been issued an annual permit by the department or by a local health department that is granted agent status under s.254.69 (2).

WI Stat. 254.65 (1) The department or a local health department granted agent status under s.254.69 (2) may not grant a permit to a person intending to operate a new hotel, tourist rooming house, bed and breakfast establishment, restaurant or vending machine commissary or to a person intending to be the new operator of an existing hotel, tourist rooming house, bed and breakfast establishment, restaurant or vending machine commissary without a pre-inspection. This section does not apply to a temporary restaurant or when a permit is transferred under s.254.64 (4) (d) or (e).