(a) 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:
(1) “Commissary”means a permitted establishment or facility in a fixed location that is used for the storage of supplies for a mobile food service vehicle, the preparation of food to be sold or served at a mobile food service vehicle, or the cleaning or servicing of a mobile food service vehicle or the equipment used in conjunction with a mobile food service vehicle.
(2) “Edible food products” means those products that are ready for immediate consumption, including prepackaged food and food cooked, prepared or assembled on-site. The term "edible food products" does not include fresh produce unless the produce has been packaged, cooked, chopped, sliced, mixed, brewed, frozen, squeezed or otherwise prepared for consumption.
(3) “Food truck” means a vehicle from which edible food products are cooked, prepared or assembled with the intent to serve or sell such items to the general public, provided further that food trucks may also serve or sell other edible food products and beverages that have been prepared or assembled elsewhere. Food truck operators may market their products to the public via advertising, including social media.
(4) “Food truck rally” means a gathering of more than five food trucks that may or may not have been coordinated or advertised. A food truck rally requires a special event license.
(5) “Ice cream truck” means a vehicle from which the operator sells only pre-packaged frozen dairy or water-based food products and pre- packaged beverages. For purposes of this article, a non-motorized cart from which such products are sold shall be considered an ice cream truck.
(6) “Location” means any single property parcel, any combination of contiguous parcels that are owned or controlled by a single entity or affiliated entities, the abutting public ways of afore-described properties, or all public ways consisting of or greater than two (2) contiguous City blocks, regardless of abutting ownership or control.
(7) “Mobile food service vehicle” means a food truck, canteen truck, or ice cream truck and includes any portable unit that is attached to a motorized vehicle and intended for use in the operation of a food truck, canteen truck or ice cream truck.
(8) “Mobile food vendor permit” means a permit issued by the City for the operation of a mobile food service vehicle.
(9) “Operate” means to serve or sell food, beverages, and other permitted items from a mobile food service vehicle and includes all tenses of the word. Operator means any person operating or permitted to operate a mobile food service.
(10) “Permit administrator” means the City's Director of Finance to oversee the issuance, suspension, and revocation of mobile food vendor permits.
(11) “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a street, including devices moved by human power.
(Ord. 21-11. Passed 5-6-21.)