§ 13.6. Definitions.

For purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:

Caterer means a person who operates from a permitted food establishment and who transports food on an occasional and temporary basis to a location or locations within the city to provide the food for a special function, occasion or event.

Commercial agricultural operation means the use of any property to house or raise animals, fowl, or plants for consumption or other use wherein the animals, fowl, plants, or their by-products are not entirely used or consumed on that property or by the persons occupying the property. This definition shall also include such operations as kennels, holding pens, and stables.

Commissary means a retail food establishment in which food, containers, equipment, or supplies are stored or handled for use in mobile food facilities, mobile food preparation units, stationary mobile food preparation units, or vending machines.

Food means any raw or processed substance, ice, beverage, including water, or ingredient intended to be used as food, drink, confection, or condiment for human or animal consumption.

Food processing establishment means any room, building, or place, or portion thereof, maintained, used or operated for the purpose of commercially packaging, making, cooking, baking, mixing, processing, bottling, canning, packing, packaging, slaughtering, salvaging, or otherwise preparing or handling food, including ice for human consumption; except retail food facilities, food warehouses, and wholesale food vehicles.

Food vending machine means any self-serving device offered for public use which, upon the insertion of coins or tokens, or by other means, dispenses unit servings of food or beverage either in bulk, cups, or packages without the necessity of replenishing the device between each vending operation. For the purpose of this article, however, food vending machines shall not include vending machines which dispense, exclusively, bottled or canned beverages, gum, candy, or other nonpotentially hazardous food when it is determined by the health officer that such vending machines do not require routine inspection for the protection of public health.

Food vending machine business means any person who installs, maintains, and replenishes one or more food vending machines at one or more locations within the city.

Food warehouse means any place, building, structure, room or portion thereof, where food is commercially distributed, stored, or held for transfer. "Food warehouse" does not include food processing establishments or retail food facilities.

Garment manufacturing establishment means any place, building or structure, room or portion thereof, where apparel and other garments and accessories are cut, sewed, or made from fabrics and similar materials, or stamped or dyed by the piece. Such apparel includes: suits, coats, work clothing, and other furnishings; outerwear, undergarments, hats, caps, and millinery; fur goods and miscellaneous apparel and accessories. Garment manufacturing establishment includes pattern makers and cutters.

Laundry means any room, building, place, or portion thereof, maintained, used, or operated for the purpose of commercially laundering clothing, articles for personal wear, household linens, rags, or materials used for domestic, commercial, or industrial purposes.

Laundry vehicle means any vehicle used in whole or in part for the transportation of clothing, linens, rags, or other materials to or from a commercial laundry by such laundry or by the operator of an independent laundry business.

Liquid waste pumping vehicle means any vehicle used in whole or in part for the transportation of waste liquids, including but not limited to sewage, industrial by-products, waste water, and the cleanings from septic tanks, cesspools, chemical tanks, chemical toilets, sewage seepage pits, sewage clarifiers, sumps, and similar sewage interceptors.

Massage business means a business as defined in Section 5.107.01.

Mobile food facility means any conveyance used in conjunction with the service of a commissary or other approved facility upon which prepackaged food or approved nonprepackaged food is sold or offered for sale at retail. Mobile food facility does not include a mobile food preparation unit.

Mobile food preparation unit means any vehicle in which unpackaged food is cooked or prepared, processed, wrapped, handled, packaged, or portioned for service, sale, or distribution at retail or given away to the public in the city.

Offal vehicle means any vehicle used in whole or in part for the transportation of offal, tankage, blood, feathers, bones, hides, pelts, or similar animal, fish or fowl by-products to or from locations within the city.

Rendering plant means an establishment where one or more of the following items is cooked, melted down, extracted, clarified, or otherwise processed to produce oil, tallow, grease, fertilizer, or animal feed; carcasses of animals or fowl, dead animals or fowl, fish, blood, offal, bones, meat, animal or vegetable fat, feathers, food scraps or waste and other animal, fowl, or fish by-products. "Rendering plant" shall not include an establishment exclusively producing fats, oils, lard, or similar products for human consumption; nor, a rendering process in connection with and incidental to a slaughterhouse, abattoir, packing plant, or similar establishment producing food for human consumption.

Restaurant means any coffee shop, cafeteria, short-order cafe, luncheonette, tavern, cocktail lounge, sandwich stand, in-plant or employee eating establishments, or any other eating establishment, organization, or club, which gives, sells, or offers for sale, food to the public, guests, patrons, or employees; as well as kitchens in which food is prepared on the premises for serving elsewhere, including catering functions. The term "restaurant" shall not include vending machines, retail or wholesale food vehicles, food processing establishments, food warehouses, retail food markets, private homes, private clubs, churches, or cooperative arrangements by employees who purchase food or beverages for their own consumption and where no employee is assigned full-time to care for or operate the equipment used in such an arrangement.

Retail food market means any room, building, place, or portion thereof, maintained, used, or operated where food products, whether in bulk, canned, wrapped, bottled, or in any other form, are sold or kept for sale at retail for consumption on a premises other than where sold.

Retail food production establishment means any room, building, place, or portion thereof, maintained, used or operated for the processing or retail sale of food, except restaurants, retail food markets, wholesale food processing establishments, and food warehouses.

Temporary event organizer means the person or organization that is in control of any community event at which one or more temporary food facility operates.

Temporary food facility means a food facility operating out of temporary facilities approved by the health officer at a fixed location for a period of time not to exceed 25 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in any 90 day period in conjunction with a single, weekly, or monthly community event, as defined in the California Health and Safety Code.

Waste means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid, semi-solid, and liquid wastes, including garbage, trash, refuse, paper, rubbish, ashes, industrial wastes, demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles and parts thereof, discarded home and industrial appliances, manure, vegetable or animal wastes, and other discarded wastes.

Waste collection business means any person who engages in the business of operating one or more waste collection vehicles.

Waste collection vehicle means any vehicle used in whole or in part to convey solid or mostly solid waste to a waste disposal site, transfer station, or processing facility from a location or locations in the city. Waste collection vehicle shall not include a vehicle operated by a company in the city to convey waste from its place of business to a waste disposal site, transfer station, or processing facility or a vehicle used by a private individual to convey waste from the individual's home to a waste disposal site, transfer station, or processing facility, or a vehicle used by a governmental agency.

Waste collection vehicle yard means the premises of a waste collection business where waste collection vehicle(s) and/or waste container(s) are stored, serviced, or maintained.

Waste disposal site means any site, facility, or location which is used or maintained for the final disposal of waste.

Waste processing facility means any site, facility, or location which is used or maintained for the temporary storage and re-use, recycling, reduction, separation, treatment, recovery, conversion, or incineration of waste. Waste processing facility shall not include a company which is recycling waste material produced as a result of its own manufacturing process; provided, that such waste remains on the premises where produced until reused.

Waste transfer station means any site, facility, or location which is used or maintained for the temporary storage of waste until conveyed to a waste processing facility or disposal site. Waste transfer station shall not include a person or company in the city that temporarily stores waste produced on the premises; provided, such waste is stored for less than seven days.

Water supply utility means a water distribution system furnishing or supplying water to five or more places of human habitation or occupancy in the city where such places are served by an integrated pipe system owned or operated by the supplier, but shall not mean any water distribution system owned and operated by any governmental entity.

Wholesale food vehicle means any vehicle from which food, whether in bulk, canned, wrapped, bottled, packaged, or any other form, is sold or kept for sale at wholesale, is distributed to a retailer, or is transported to or from locations within the city, but shall not include a vehicle from which food is sold, kept for sale, or directly distributed to the consumer.

Wiping rag means any cloth, rag, or towel, used for any or all of the following purposes:

(a) Wiping and cleaning the surfaces of machinery, machines, tools, locomotives, engines, motor cars, automobiles, cars, carriages, windows, furniture, and surfaces of articles, appliances, and engines in factories, shops, steamships, and steamboats.

(b) Generally for cleaning in industrial employment.

(c) Used by mechanics and workmen for wiping soil, grease, and other grime incident to their employment from their hands and bodies.

Wiping rag business means any place, building or structure, room or portion thereof, where wiping rags other than new materials, are processed, sorted, cut, washed, and/or cleaned for delivery, rental, or sale.

(Ord. No. 805, §§ 1.01 to 1.24; Ord. No. 853, §§ 5 to 7; Ord. No. 932, §§ 2 to 7; Ord. No. 961, § 2; Ord. No. 996, § 3; Ord. No. 1017, § 2; Ord. No. 1052, § 4; Ord. No. 1071, §§ 2–5; Ord. No. 1080, § 5, Exh. B; Ord. No. 1234, § 4.)