(A) No person shall install, operate or maintain within the Village any automatic food vending machines used for the sale of any article of food, the operation of which is governed or controlled by the deposit of a coin or token, without a license therefor. The fee shall be as set forth in § 110.13.
(B) No person shall permit the installation, keeping, maintenance or use upon his premises of any food vending machine owned or operated by a person who has not obtained a license as hereinafter provided.
(C) Applicant shall set forth information as to the type or types of machines, the kind or kinds of foods to be dispensed therefrom and the location thereof before any such license shall issue. Before any license shall issue the type of vending machine intended to be operated shall be approved by the Building Director, who shall also cause an inspection to be made of the premises of the applicant to determine the character and fitness of the premises from the standpoint of insuring protection of the food from improper handling, dust, dirt, flies, vermin or other contamination.
(D) (1) The Director of Finance shall deliver with each license a decalcomania with numerals designating the year for which this license is issued. The Director shall change annually the predominant background colors of such license emblem or decal.
(2) It shall be the duty of the licensee to affix the decalcomania in a conspicuous place on the licensed automatic food vending machine, and it shall be unlawful for any person to mutilate or remove the decal from the automatic food vending machine during the year for where it is so licensed, unless written application is made to the Director of Finance to transfer the license or decal to another machine of the same class. The Director shall permit the transfer of any decal to another machine of the same class during the year within which the machine has been licensed, and shall make such notation upon their records and upon the decal as shall be appropriate to reflect this transfer.
(E) (1) All articles of food purveyed by means of automatic food vending machines shall be clean, wholesome, free from paint, decay, infection or contamination and shall contain no poisonous, deleterious or injurious ingredients in kind and quantities so as to render such articles injurious or detrimental to health.
(2) The Building Director shall have the authority to make periodic inspections of the place of business, the automatic food vending machines and the article or articles of food purveyed therefrom for the purpose of determining the purity and wholesomeness of the products vended and the preparation, handling and wrapping of same, and to see that the requirements and intent of this section and the health provisions of this code and rules and regulations of the Board of Health are complied with, including the operation, cleanliness, sanitation and use of such machines to guard against improper handling, distribution and contamination of food purveyed thereby.
(F) It shall be the duty of all persons operating any such food vending machines upon demand of the Building Director to furnish them for their inspection samples of all such food and drink, which samples may be analyzed by or under the direction of the Building Director and a record of such analysis shall be kept and maintained in their office.
(1997 Code, § 32.12) (Ord. 66-7, passed 2-10- 1966; Am. Ord. CO-09-27, passed 10-6-2009; Am. Ord. CO-2021-21, passed 8-17-2021) Penalty, see § 10.99