(a) "Peddler" means any person who travels door to door either by foot, automobile, truck, or any other type of conveyance and calls upon private residences, including any house, apartment or other dwelling within the City, taking or attempting to take orders for profit for the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise or personal property of any nature whatsoever for immediate or future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed immediately or in the future.
(b) "Solicitor" means any person who seeks to obtain funds for any cause whatsoever by traveling door to door either by foot, automobile, truck or any type of conveyance and calling upon private residences including any house, apartment or other dwelling within the City.
(c) "Canvasser" means any person who obtains or influences the opinions of the residents of the City by traveling door to door either by foot, automobile, truck or other type of conveyance and calling upon private residences including any house, apartment or other dwelling in the City, but does not seek to obtain funds for any cause whatsoever.
(d) "Board of Health" means a Board of Health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a Board of Health under Section 3709.05 of the Revised Code.
(e) "Ohio uniform food safety code" means the food safety and related standards adopted under Section 3717.05 of the Revised Code.
(f) "Food" means any raw, cooked, or processed edible substance used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consumption. "Food" includes ice, water or any other beverage, food ingredients, and chewing gum.
(g) "Food service operation" means a place, location, site or separate area where food intended to be served in individual portions is prepared or served for a charge or required donation. As used in this division, "served" means a response made to an order for one or more individual portions of food in a form that is edible without washing, cooking, or additional preparation and "prepared" means any action that affects a food other than receiving or maintaining it at the temperature at which it was received.
(h) "Retail food establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food is stored, processed, prepared, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for retail sale. Except when expressly provided otherwise, "retail food establishment" includes a mobile retail food establishment, seasonal retail food establishment, and temporary retail food establishment.
As used in this section:
(1) "Retail" means the sale of food to a person who is the ultimate consumer.
(2) "Prepared" means any action that affects a food, including receiving and maintaining it at the temperature at which it was received.
(i) "Mobile food service operation" means a food service operation that is operated from a movable vehicle, portable structure, or watercraft and that routinely changes location, except that if the operation remains at any one location for more than forty consecutive days, the operation is no longer a mobile food service operation. "Mobile food service operation" includes a food service operation that does not remain at any one location for more than forty consecutive days and serves, in a manner consistent with division (g) of this section, only frozen desserts; beverages, nuts, popcorn, candy, or similar confections; bakery products identified in Section 911.01 of the Revised Code; or any combination of those items.
(j) "Mobile retail food establishment" means a retail food establishment that is operated from a movable vehicle or other portable structure, and that routinely changes location, except that if the establishment operates from any one location for more than forty consecutive days, the establishment is no longer a mobile retail establishment.
(k) "Government entity" means this state, a political subdivision of this state, another state, or a political subdivision or other local government body of another state.
(l) "Licensor" means one of the following:
(1) A Board of Health approved under Section 3711.11 of the Revised Code;
(2) The Director of Agriculture acting pursuant to Section 3717.11 of the Revised Code with respect to the licensing of retail food establishments;
(3) The Director of Health acting pursuant to Section 3711.11 of the Revised Code with respect to the licensing of food service operations.
(m) "Person" means singular and the plural and shall also include any person, firm, or corporation.
(Ord. 337(12-13). Passed 7-18-13.)