BONA FIDE NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION: Any corporation organized under the General Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986, 805 Illinois Compiled Statutes 105/101.01 or any association having attained section 501(c)(3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (19), or other charitable status under the Internal Revenue Code. Not for profit corporations include those organized for the following purposes:
A. Charitable;
B. Benevolent;
C. Educational;
D. Civic;
E. Patriotic or veterans' organization;
F. Political;
G. Religious;
H. Social;
I. Literary;
J. Athletic;
K. Professional, commercial, industrial or trade association;
L. Agricultural or horticultural association.
BUILDING AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DIVISION (BNS): That division of the City government, formerly known as the Code Enforcement Division, created by title 1, chapter 7 of this Code.
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION: A voluntary organization composed of individuals and businesses who have joined together to advance the commercial, financial, industrial and civic interests of a community.
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: An organization or institution organized and operated to benefit an indefinite number of the public. The service rendered to those eligible for benefits must also confer some benefit on the public.
CITY: The City of Carbondale, in the County of Jackson, in the State of Illinois.
CITY CLERK: The City Clerk of the City of Carbondale.
CITY COUNCIL: The City Council of the City of Carbondale.
CITY MANAGER: The City Manager of the City of Carbondale.
COMMUNITY ORIENTED EVENT: A special event organized by a bona fide not for profit organization and designed for and open to all members of the community. The focus of the event is to celebrate a holiday, historical event, or to promote the community at large. Community oriented events may include, but are not limited to: Lights Fantastic, Noontime Concerts, Arts-in-Celebration, Founders' Day, Pancake Days, Farmers' Market, and other festivals or celebrations.
EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION: An organization or institution organized and operated to provide systematic instruction in useful branches of learning by methods common to schools and institutions of learning which compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the course of study presented in tax supported schools.
FIRE DEPARTMENT: That department of the City government created by title 1, chapter 10 of this Code.
FOOD SERVICE ORDINANCE: That ordinance first adopted on June 12, 1965, by the County Board of Jackson County, Illinois, with all revisions and amendments made subsequent thereto.
FOOD SERVICE SANITATION CODE: The regulations promulgated by the Illinois Department of Public Health and found at part 750 of title 77 of the Illinois Administrative Code, with all revisions and amendments made thereto.
FOOD TRUCK/ TRAILER VENDOR: A person engaged in the business of selling food (not prepackaged) or nonalcoholic beverages from a self-contained motorized vehicle or a self-contained enclosed trailer with valid license plates and registration. A food truck vendor does not include an ice cream truck operator.
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION: An organization of persons having a common interest, the primary interest of which is to both promote the welfare of its members and to provide assistance to the general public in such a way as to lessen the burdens of government by caring for those that otherwise would be cared for by the government.
GOODS, WARES OR MERCHANDISE: Any tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family or household purposes.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT: The Jackson County Health Department.
ICE CREAM TRUCK: Every motor vehicle in which ice cream, popsicles, ice sherbets or frozen desserts of any kind are carried for purposes of retail sale from the motor vehicle on the City streets.
LABOR ORGANIZATION: An organization composed of workers organized with the objective of betterment of the conditions of those engaged in such pursuit and the development of a higher degree of efficiency in their respective occupations.
LOTTERY: Any scheme or procedure whereby one or more prizes are distributed by chance among persons who have paid or promised consideration for a chance to win such prizes, whether such scheme or procedure is called a lottery, raffle, gift, sale or some other name.
NET PROCEEDS: The gross receipts from the conduct of raffles, less reasonable sums expended for prizes, local license fees, and other reasonable operating expenses incurred as a result of operating a raffle.
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION: An organization or institution organized and conducted on a not for profit basis with no personal profit inuring to anyone as a result of the operation.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, joint stock association, or firm, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
POLICE DEPARTMENT: That department of City government created by title 1, chapter 9 of this Code.
PRIVATE PROPERTY OPERATOR: Any vendor, transient merchant, solicitor, or pushcart operation excluding food truck/trailer, who operates from an approved and properly zoned privately owned property with permission from the owner.
PUSHCART: A nonself-propelled vehicle selling and/or serving food products for use or consumption of the purchaser and not for resale.
PUSHCART OPERATION: The business of selling and/or serving food products from a pushcart as a Private Property Operator.
RAFFLE: A form of lottery conducted by an organization licensed under this chapter, in which:
A. The player pays or agrees to pay something of value for a chance, represented and differentiated by a number or by a combination of numbers or by some other medium, one or more of which chances is to be designated the winning chance; and
B. The winning chance is to be determined through a drawing or by some other method based on an element of chance by an act or set of acts on the part of persons conducting or connected with the lottery, except that the winning chance shall not be determined by the outcome of a publicly exhibited sporting contest.
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION: Any church, congregation, society, or organization founded for the purpose of religious worship.
SOLICITOR: Any person who goes from one residential unit or business to another for the purpose of: a) seeking to obtain orders for the purchase of goods, wares, merchandise, foodstuffs, insurance, or services of any kind for any kind of consideration; b) seeking to obtain subscriptions to books, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, or other type of publication; or c) seeking to obtain gifts or contributions of money, clothing or any other valuable thing for the support or benefit of any charitable or nonprofit association, organization, corporation or project; or d) selling goods, products or merchandise.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT: Any person who is engaged temporarily in the retail sale of goods, wares or merchandise in this City and who, for the purpose of conducting such business, occupies any building, room, vehicle, structure of any kind, vacant lot, or parcel of property. However, this chapter does not apply to any person selling goods, wares or merchandise which are raised, produced or manufactured by him, to any person selling vegetables, fruit or perishable farm products at an established City market, to any person operating a stand or booth on or adjacent to property owned by him or upon which he resides, or to any person operating a stand or booth at a trade show, exposition, convention or similar event.
VEND: The act of selling goods, wares, merchandise or food items, including items that are to be delivered at a future date.
VENDING STAND: Any table, platform, deck, pushcart, or other structure used for the display and/or sale of food, beverages, goods, or merchandise of any kind.
VENDOR: Any person, group or organization who operates a vending stand during a community oriented event.
VETERANS' ORGANIZATION: An organization or association comprised of members of which substantially all are individuals who are veterans or spouses, widows, or widowers of veterans, the primary purpose of which is to promote the welfare of its members and to provide assistance to the general public in such a way as to confer a public benefit. (Ord. 2017-55; Ord. 2022-21)