For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FOOD VENDOR. Any person who sells, offers for sale or distributes from any wagon, truck, pushcart or other vehicle or temporary foodstand, any article of food or food products to be used for human consumption in the city.
PERISHABLE FOOD. Food which tends to decompose or deteriorate within three hours at a temperature above 50° F and thereby rendering in unwholesome or unsafe for human consumption.
REFRIGERATION. Refrigeration at 50° F or below in closed vehicles shall be provided and maintained for all perishable food during transportation.
STREET VENDOR. Any person, whether principal or agent, who shall go in and upon the public streets, alleys, ways, parks and places of the city, traveling from place to place or from door to door of homes, offices, stores, hotels, restaurants or other places of business, engaged in selling at retail, or offering or taking orders to sell, barter, canvass or peddle to members of the public or to regular customers any article of goods, wares or merchandise or other products, not produced, manufactured or made by such person; however, merchants having established places of business with a stock of goods, engaged in making deliveries only thereof, shall not be deemed to come within the scope of this subchapter. Any person who, in the operation and conduct of his business, shall manufacture, produce or distribute any products, goods, wares or merchandise, and shall as an established course of business employ agents who shall go in and about the streets of the city displaying and offering such goods, wares or merchandise for sale, or who shall take orders for sale or who shall sell at retail to the public or to established customers, shall each be deemed to be street vendors and subject to all the terms and conditions of this subchapter. The term STREET VENDOR shall also include HUCKSTER and PEDDLER as such words are commonly used.
('68 Code, § 3-301) (Ord. 110, passed 10-7-52)