Anderson Municipal Code Ch. 8.04 Definitions

For the purposes of this title, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by Sections 8.04.020 through 8.04.100 unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Food" means any substance eaten or drunk for nourishment or refreshment of the body, whether it is in storage, in process of preparation, or ready-to-serve.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Food establishment" includes any public or private market, shop, store, factory, bakery, storehouse, warehouse, cold storage plant, or other plant, or other place, not a public eating place, in or about which any food, foodstuffs or provisions are kept, held, sold, stored, prepared or compounded, or offered for sale, for human consumption.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Hawker" means any person who vends edible food or food products on the street, the food or food products being on a vehicle or carried by the person, including wholesale distribution of food, except:

A. Distributors of milk, bottled water or ice, rendering the service of delivering their products to regular customers;

B. A person who sells edibles from a wayside stand located on property owned or controlled by him, all of which edibles are grown or raised on such property by such person or by members of his immediate family;

C. The operator of a public eating place.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Health officer" means the health officer of the county or his duly authorized representative.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Nuisance" means anything which is injurious to health, indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstruct the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway.

(Prior code § 14.1)

"Operator" is any person, whether the owner or not, engaged in the dispensing of or preparing or assisting in the preparation of food, or a person otherwise employed in a public eating place or a food establishment, and any person employed more than one hour per day in any school cafeteria.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Poultry or rabbit slaughter business" means a business where anyone slaughters more than three fowl or three rabbits per day for other than personal use.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Public eating place" includes every restaurant, lunch room, tea room, coffee shop, soda fountain, public boardinghouse, hotel, club, beer parlor, cocktail lounge and every other public place where food or drinks are prepared or served to be consumed by the public on the premises, and all kitchens, commissaries and other rooms appurtenant thereto or connected therewith, and including also kitchens in which food or drinks are prepared on the premises for sale or distribution elsewhere.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))

"Sterilization" means sanitization.

(Prior code § 10.1 (part))