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5.18.070 - Enforcement and compliance.

Part of the Code of Ordinances of Commerce, CA.

Local law · Updated May 13, 2025 · 2,277 sections

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(a)

The mobile food vendor shall comply with all applicable state and local laws. This chapter is not intended to be enforced against non-motorized pedestrian stationary or roaming food and merchandise vendors as defined in Chapter 5.16, or against mobile food vendors who operate human powered push carts and other nonmotorized conveyances.

(b)

Mobile food merchants operating a vending vehicle must provide or have garbage receptacles readily available for immediate use by customers of the vending vehicle.

(c)

Mobile food vendors operating a vending vehicle must pick up, remove, and dispose of all garbage, refuse or litter consisting of foodstuffs, wrappers, and/or materials at one time dispensed from the vending vehicle, and any residue deposited on the street from the operation thereof, and shall otherwise maintain in a clean and debris-free condition the entire area within a twenty-five-foot radius of the location where mobile food vending is occurring.

(d)

No mobile food merchant shall sell, display, solicit, barter, gift, and/or exchange or otherwise, any food as provided in this code from a vending vehicle within three hundred feet of the entrance to a business establishment which is open for business and is offering for sale any food; or within three-hundred feet of any restaurant, café, or eating establishment which is open for business.

(e)

Any mobile food vendor identified in an application for a special event, or any other city sponsored or approved event shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter pertaining to mobile food vending, provided that the vending vehicle is parked for the duration of the special event to conduct its business.

(f)

The remedies provided by this article are cumulative and in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity, including, but not limited to, Chapter 1.13 of this code.

(Ord. No. 812, § 8, 12-12-2023)