For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meaning ascribed below:
A. "City" means City of Signal Hill.
B. "Food truck" means a motorized vehicle or mobile food unit equipped and used for retail sales, mobile food vending, or offering of prepared, prepackaged, or unprepared food operating at one or more locations within the city. This definition shall include trailers or wagons pulled by a vehicle and used as described herein.
C. "Operator" means any person who owns, controls, manages, leases, drives, and/or operates a food truck or vehicle for the purpose of mobile food vending.
D. "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, stockholder, including but not limited to owners, operators, lessors, and lessees of vehicles used for mobile food vending.
E. "Mobile food vending" or "vending" means offering food, beverage, merchandise, or related product of any kind for sale or distribution from a food truck on any street, alley, highway, public place, or private property.
F. "Vendor" means any person who is engaged in mobile food vending. (Ord. 2023-11-1545 § 5 (part), 2023)