§ 8-280. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Commissary shall mean an approved catering establishment, restaurant or other approved place in which food containers or supplies are kept, handed, prepared, packaged or stored and that has also obtained approval from the health department.

Ice cream truck shall mean a motor vehicle in which ice cream, popsicles, ice sherbets or other frozen desserts of any kind are carried for the purpose of retail sales on the streets of the city.

Mobile food vendor shall mean a retail food establishment that reports to and operates from a commissary and is readily moveable, is a motorized wheeled vehicle, or towed wheeled vehicle designed and equipped to serve food. Sellers of produce, fruit and vegetables at the city farmers' market only are governed by the license requirements set forth in section 8-300. Other than the city farmers' market, sellers of produce, fruit and vegetables shall be governed by article II or this article VI as applicable.

Pushcart shall mean a non-self-propelled vehicle limited to serving commissary prepared or pre-packaged food and non-potentially hazardous food, unless equipment is commercially designed and approved to handle food preparation and service.

Temporary food establishment shall mean a retail food establishment, other than a licensed mobile food vendor or pushcart, that is not intended to be permanent and that operates at a fixed location for a period of time of not more than 14 consecutive days in a calendar year.

(Ord. of 10-02-2017(1), § 2)