§ 13-21. Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the indicated meanings:

Food products shall mean or include any substance, whether solid or liquid and whether of animal or vegetable origin, intended to be used or commonly used as food or drink for human beings or for human consumption.

Food products establishment shall mean and include any place or establishment occupied, used or maintained for the purpose of selling, offering for sale, exposing for sale, or keeping with the intention of selling, or manufacturing for sale, any food product, such as meat markets, butcher shops, fish markets, bakeries, confectioneries, ice cream factories, places for handling, preparation for sale of dairy products or canned or prepared foodstuffs; hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, fruit markets, vegetable markets, vegetable and fruit vendors peddling by wagon or otherwise, soda fountains, bottling works, vinegar or pickle factories, and all similar businesses handling or having to do with foodstuffs, and shall include every room used for the purpose of any such business in the keeping, storing, manufacturing, preparing, handling, distributing, selling, serving or offering for sale of any food products as herein defined, whether raw, cooked or otherwise prepared, or any liquid intended as a food or drink for human beings, and all places and premises connected with any such room and rooms. The term shall include an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, or otherwise provides food for human consumption.

(Ord. of 7-16-18, § 1; Ord. of 4-22-80, § 1; Ord. No. 2002-O-148, § 1, 7-15-02)

Cross reference

Rules of construction and definitions generally, § 1-2.