§ 9-501. Definitions.

Food trucks are vehicles from which the operator cooks, prepares, or assembles food items and non-alcoholic beverages with the intent to sell such items to the general public.

Ice cream trucks are vehicles from which the operator vends only pre-packaged frozen dairy or frozen water-based food products, soft serve, or hand-dipped frozen dairy products or frozen water-based food products, and pre-packaged beverages.

Location means any single property parcel and all other parcels that are contiguous or cumulatively contiguous to that owned or controlled by single or affiliated entities.

Mobile food service permit means a permit issued by the city for the operation of food trucks or ice cream trucks.

Mobile food service vehicle means a food truck or an ice cream truck and includes any other portable unit that is towed to the site and is used in the operation of the mobile food service vehicle.

Operate means to promote or sell food, beverages, and other permitted items from the mobile food service vehicle.

Operator means any person owning, operating, or permitted to operate a food truck or ice cream truck and collectively refers to all such persons.

Vehicle as used in this article, means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

( Ord. No. 3612, 7-3-2018 )