§ 12-210. Classification of permits.

Food establishment permits shall be classified according to the duration of operation and location of such operation.

(1)

The duration of a permit shall fall within one of the three following categories and location of such operation:

a.

Annual: An establishment that operates throughout the year.

b.

Temporary: An establishment that operates seven consecutive days or fewer, in conjunction with a special event.

c.

Seasonal: Establishment that operates more than 14 consecutive days but less than 180 days each year, and not associated with a special event.

(2)

The location classification of a permit shall fall within one of two categories, either fixed or mobile, as follows:

a.

Fixed food establishments include the following:

1.

Food service establishment: Restaurants, cafeterias, snack bars, bakeries, snow cone stands, caterer's commissaries, private school cafeterias, halfway house food services, hospitals' kitchens/cafeterias, institutional food services, etc. where food is prepared and served;

2.

Retail food stores handling prepackaged, potentially hazardous foods;

3.

Retail food stores handling, processing or selling open foods;

4.

Food warehouses/wholesaler;

5.

Farmer's markets/produce stands;

6.

Bed and breakfast establishments.

b.

Mobile food units include the following:

1.

Retail food unit handling prepackaged food;

2.

Retail food handing trailers, mobile barbecues, snow cone units, etc.;

3.

Processing or selling open food. A separate permit is required for each different type of mobile unit owned or operated by an individual company;

4.

Mobile produce unit;

5.

Mobile units delivering or selling meat, poultry, fish, seafood or shellfish (except retail grocery delivery trucks and units that are otherwise prohibited by this article). Except for wholesale fish truckers, any person who operates, sells, or engages in the distribution of any meat, poultry, fish, seafood, or shellfish in the city shall operate from a fixed and permitted place of businesses. Roadside vending of meat, poultry, fish, seafood, or shellfish shall not be permitted in the city;

6.

Pushcarts; and

7.

Catering units.

(Code 1994, § 6.208; Ord. No. 372, § 1, 6-14-2004)