Check this out you floridians. This also may pertain to out-of-staters. After getting my plan review fully complete with a commissary (which by the way took me about a month to find one) I received a call today from the Div of hotels and rest. They told me that I would have to find another commissary (I am using the local VFW) since the VFW is a non profit organization and is only inspected by the county and not the state. I thougt, oh no, here we go again. They said to go to the county and the county may or may not license you. I thought may or may not??? Anyway, I went to the county health department in New Port Richey and they were very nice and informative. They told me that I shouldn't have to go through Div hotel & rest., that they could license me since they have jurisdiction over the VFW. I asked them would I then be state licensed, and they said yes. There were about three of them discussing this, and heard them say that this has always been a problem. They told me to make sure I get everything back from the Div. The county health dept. also gave me a packet that consisted of a plan review, so I could have been licensed long ago if I had known this. Now filling out more paper work, but at least I got an answer face to face. Just wanted to let you know about this if any of you run into problems.
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