For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MOBILE FOOD VENDING. Vending, serving, or offering for sale food and/or beverages from a mobile food vending unit which meets the definition of a Food Service Establishment under Public Act 92 of 2000, which may include the ancillary sales of branded items consistent with the food, such as a tee shirt that bears the name of the organization engaged in MOBILE FOOD VENDING.
MOBILE FOOD VENDING UNIT. Any motorized or non-motorized vehicle, trailer, or other device designed to be portable and not permanently attached to the ground from which food and/or beverages is vended, served, or offered for sale.
OPERATE. All activities associated with the conduct of business, including the set up and take down activities and/or the actual hours where the mobile food vending unit is open for business.
PEDDLER. Any person who goes about from place to place, selling or offering for sale, goods, wares, merchandise and all kinds of property, traveling on foot or in vehicles, and selling from
house to house without prior specific invitation or appointment from the resident, or by crying his wares from the street. Such term shall include "hawker", "solicitor" and "huckster."
TRANSIENT MERCHANT. Any person engaged temporarily in the retail sale of goods, wares or merchandise, in any place in this City and who, for the purpose of conducting such business, occupies or uses any lot, building, truck, trailer, stall, room, tent, canopy or structure of any kind.
(1) Such term shall include: “itinerant merchants,” “itinerant vendors” and persons engaged in selling goods, wares or merchandise at retail in this City and who are not on the tax rolls of this City; and
(2) Any person who commences a business of selling goods, wares and merchandise at retail within the City after the first day of January in any year and who is not assessed on the tax roll for that year and who occupies or uses the licensed premises for a period of less than 180 days shall be deemed a
TRANSIENT MERCHANT within the meaning of this chapter.
VENDOR. Any individual engaged in the business of mobile food vending; if more than one individual is operating a single stand, cart or other means of conveyance, then VENDOR shall mean all individuals operating the single stand cart or other means of conveyance.
(Ord. 616-11-09, passed 11-2-09; Am. Ord. 695-06-16, passed 6-20-16; Am. Ord. 777-10-21, passed 10-18-21)