[Amended 4-25-2022 by Ord. No. 34-2022]
For the purpose of this Part, certain terms shall be defined as follows:
MOBILE VENDOR — A vendor or seller of food and/or goods from mobile vending unit.
MOBILE VENDOR LICENSE — The written authorization, issued by the City of Reading, to operate a mobile vendor unit on the street. The license must be displayed prominently on each unit.
MOBILE VENDOR UNIT — A vehicle registered under the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or another state which operates from site to site with primary emphasis on transit while dispensing a product or rendering a service on a stop-on-demand basis only and whose use is incidental to the land use and underlying zone. This vehicle must carry insurance. The vehicle does not typically remain stationary for more than approximately 10 minutes each hour.
PRIVATE PROPERTY — Property owned by a person or jointly by a group of persons, legal persons or business entities.
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION — A division of the City of Reading administration under the Managing Director charged with enforcing the City of Reading Code governing issues including, but not limited to, housing, property maintenance and trade.
PUBLIC PROPERTY — All real and personal property, whether within or outside the corporate City limits, belonging to the City of Reading, excluding that which is used and/or intends for use by vehicular or pedestrian traffic and defined herein as a public right-of-way.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY — Any place of any nature which is legally open to public use and used and/or intended for vehicular or pedestrian traffic, including public streets, alleys, sidewalks, and roadways, but excluding any public property of the City of Reading. The official topographic survey map of Reading, Pennsylvania, on file in the Engineering Office shall be the final authoritative document should the existence of any street, dedicated or not be disputed.
SIDEWALK — That portion of a public right-of-way for which paving is required under this
Part of the Code of the City of Reading and which is used primarily for pedestrian travel.
STATIONARY VENDOR — An itinerant vendor who conducts business:
A. From a vehicle or other conveyance; or
B. In or about a structure that is not permanently affixed to real property and that is located upon privately owned property and not on a public street, sidewalk, alley or public way of the City.
VEHICLE — Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used exclusively upon rails or tracks. The term does not include a self-propelled wheel chair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designed for the exclusive use of a person with a mobility related disability.