For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EMPLOYEE. Any person who, with or without pay, works or handles food in a food handling establishment or who offers food for sale.
FOOD. All articles used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment, whether simple or compound, and all substances and ingredients used in the preparation thereof.
FOOD HANDLING ESTABLISHMENT.
Restaurants and food selling and processing establishments, except that this definition shall not apply to meat, milk, and poultry processing establishments, frozen food lockers, canneries, and slaughterhouses inspected by federal or state agencies, nor to such other plants and establishments for the packing, treatment, and processing of agricultural products and crops of all kinds, including but without limiting the generality of such plants or establishments for the packing, treating, canning, freezing, dehydrating, and other processing and packaging of agricultural products and crops and the manufacture or other processing of byproducts therefrom, where such plants or establishments and/or the products thereof are subject to inspection by federal and/or state agencies to insure that such products are in a good and sanitary state and condition and suitable for human consumption and which do not sell or deliver directly to the ultimate customer.
FOOD SELLING AND PROCESSING ESTAB-LISHMENT. Any room, building, vehicle, facility, structure, or place, or portion thereof, whether stationary, movable, permanent, or temporary, which is maintained, used, or operated for the purpose of commercially selling, storing, packaging, transporting, making, cooking, mixing, processing, bottling, canning, packing, slaughtering, or otherwise preparing or handling food, or vendors servicing vending machines handling unwrapped, unbottled, or unpackaged or readily perishable food. This definition does not include restaurants, tank trucks, fresh produce trucks, farm trucks, or vehicles delivering only nonperishable food products in sealed, wrapped, or bottled containers, or vending machines dispensing only bottled beverages or wrapped candy.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Health Officer of the city, his medical deputies, his sanitarians, or his duly authorized representatives.
ITINERANT FOOD HANDLING ESTABLISH-MENT. One which operates for a temporary period in connection with a fair, carnival, circus, public exhibition, or other similar gathering.
RESTAURANT. Any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette, tavern, sandwich stand, soda fountain, vehicle, and any other eating or drinking establishment which sells or offers food or drink for sale to the public, as well as kitchens in which food or drink is prepared on the premises for sale or distribution elsewhere.
UTENSILS. Kitchenware, tableware, glassware, cutlery, containers, machinery, implements, receptacles, supplies, or other equipment used for the storage, preparation, distribution, or serving of food or drink.
('66 Code, § 6-2.01) (Ord. 433-A, passed 12-22-58; Am. Ord. 653-A, passed 2-14-66)