(a) "Department of Health" shall have the same meaning as "licensor" for a mobile vending health license in Ohio Revised Code 3717.01(O).
(b) "Food" shall mean a raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption.
(c) "Food delivery operation" shall mean a food service operation from which food is ordered off-site by a customer, prepared, and delivered to the customer. "Food delivery operation" includes, by way of example and not by way of limitation, pizza delivery, sandwich delivery, restaurant delivery services, or "food delivery sales operations" as defined in Ohio Revised Code 3717.01(H).
(d) "Food service operation" shall mean, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, 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 subsection, "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.
(e) "Food trailer" shall mean any vehicle without motive power that is designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and is specifically designed or used for food vending operations.
(f) "Food truck" shall mean a vehicle propelled by an engine which has been specifically designed or used for mobile food vending.
(g) "Food truck industry" shall mean both food trucks and food trailers.
(h) "Food vending operation" shall mean 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 subsection, "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.
(i) "General public right of way access permit" shall mean a document issued to a mobile food vending unit such that the unit may operate in the public right of way outside designated spaces or mobile food courts in congestion or commercial zones, subject to the limitations and provisions of this chapter. Unless otherwise stated herein, the word "permit" shall have the same meaning as "general public right of way access permit."
(j) "Health license" shall mean an official document issued by a department of health pursuant to Section 3701 of the Ohio Revised Code. Such document may be either an annual health license or a temporary health license.
(k) "Licensing period" shall mean the one year period from the date upon which the license is obtained, unless the license is obtained for a one day period, in which case the license period shall be for twenty-four hours, beginning at the time of the obtaining.
(l) "Mobile food vending unit" shall mean a food service operation or retail food establishment that is operated from a food truck, food trailer, pedi-food cart, or pushcart, and that can or does routinely change location. For the purposes of a mobile food vending license, "mobile food vending unit" excludes food delivery operations and vending machines, as defined in Ohio Revised Code 3717.01(L).
(m) "Mobile food vendor" shall mean every corporation, association, joint stock association, person, firm or partnership, their lessees, directors, receivers, trustees, appointees by any court whatsoever, or the heirs, executors, administrators, or personal representatives or assignees of any deceased owner, owning, controlling, operating or managing any mobile food vending unit.
(n) "Operator" shall mean the individual or entity who manages one (1) or more mobile food vending units whether as the owner, an employee of the owner or as an independent contractor.
(o) "Permanently revoke" shall, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, mean to terminate all rights and privileges under a license for a period of ninety (90) days or greater and to render the holder of a license ineligible to reapply for said license.
(p) "Public event" shall, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, mean any public activity or gathering or assemblage of people, other than a special event, that is open to the general public for admission, requires payment for entrance, attendance or participation, and requires the issuance of a health license or temporary health license pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 3717.01 for participating mobile food vendors. "Public event" includes, by way of example and not by way of limitation, a sporting event at an arena or stadium, a state fair, a concert, or a theater production.
(q) "Public right of way" shall mean any property owned by the Village of Shawnee Hills, including, but not limited to, any street, road, alley, sidewalk, vacant lot, or other tract of land.
(r) "Revoke" shall, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, mean to terminate all rights or privileges under a license for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days after which the individual must reapply for a license.
(s) "Retail food establishment" shall, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, mean a premises or part of a premises where food is stored, processed, prepared, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for sale of food to a person who is the ultimate consumer.
(t) "Special event" shall, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, mean any activity or gathering or assemblage of people upon public property or in the public right of way for which a block party, street closure, race event, parade permit, community market, or other like permit has been issued by the Village of Shawnee Hills.
(u) "Suspend" shall, for the purposes of a mobile food vending license, mean to temporarily deprive a licensee of rights or privileges under a license for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days.
(v) "Vending" shall mean the sale of food to a person who is the ultimate consumer. Such sales do not include those from a vending machine, as defined in Ohio Revised Code 3717.01(L).
(Ord. 30-2016. Passed 1-23-17.)