Whenever one of my five daughters turn about six-years-old, they want to go into business, because they’ve discovered the value of money.

Chores aren’t enough.

They want to get expand their cash sources.

Homemade jewelry, pet sitting, and the traditional lemonade stand.

Texas sisters Andria, 8, and Zoey Green, 7, wanted to raise about $100 to take their dad to Splash Kingdom as a Father’s Day present, so they set up a traditional neighborhood lemonade stand.

According to ABC affiliate KLTV, about an hour later and after a $25 profit, Overton police showed up and shut the lemonade stand down because the Green sisters did not have a “Peddler’s Permit,” which comes with a $150 fee.

“We had kettle corn and lemonade. The lemonade was for 50 cents and the kettle corn was a dollar, but if you got both it was a dollar.” Zoey told KLTV.

And while the city agreed to waive the $150 permit fee for the Green sisters, they found out they also need approval from the health department.

A Texas law prohibits the sale of any food items that could spoil without proper temperature control and lemonade is included. In addition to a permit, a health inspection must take place before a permit is granted.

The law does not have exceptions based on the age of the vendor.

The girls’ mother, Sandi Evans, said, “I think that’s ridiculous. I think they’re 7 and 8 and they’re just trying to make money for their own cause.”

“You get a permit from the city to serve this?” the officer asked the mother of the girls.

“I didn’t know I had to,” the mother answers.

“Yes ma’am,” says the officer.

“Really? For a lemonade stand?” says the mother, “I had no clue.”

The surprised mom asked, “Okay, can I run down and get one real quick?”

“Yes ma’am,” the officer replies.

The mother adds, “I knew we had to for garage sales and stuff like that, but I didn’t know kids had to for a lemonade stand.”

The girls and their mother were told that a health department inspection of the family kitchen was required because the food was prepared there.

Texas House Bill 970 requires a government inspection and permit for any food that must be regulated by time or temperature control in order to prevent spoilage. Since the lemonade and kettle corn could grow bacteria, a permit and inspection was required.

The law was passed during the 2013 Texas legislative session.

In 2011 a group of kids who set up a lemonade stand outside the Congressional Country Club in Montgomery County, Maryland, were fined $500 for not having a vendor’s permit.