§ 122.04 REGULATIONS FOR SALES FROM VEHICLES.

It is unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, or operate any vehicle or conduct any business for the purpose of causing the sale or for offering for sale, any goods or services from any vehicle parked, stopped or standing upon any public street, alley, parkway, sidewalk or other public property in the city except in accordance with all applicable provisions of the code and in compliance with each of the following requirements:

(A) Such vending shall be only by means of a vehicle duly registered and licensed by the state with an unladen weight of less than 6,000 pounds.

(B) Such vending shall be limited to public streets only and shall not be permitted upon any alley, parkway, sidewalk, or other public property.

(C) Each operator shall possess and at all times display in conspicuous view upon each such vehicle a city business license pursuant to Chapter 110 of this code of ordinances.

(D) Each operator shall possess and at all times display in conspicuous view upon such vehicle an unexpired and unrevoked operator’s permit issued pursuant to § 122.15.

(E) It is unlawful for any vendor to sell or offer for sale any goods or services from any vehicle pursuant to this section unless such person possesses and at all times while conducting such vending maintains upon his or her person an unexpired and unrevoked vendor's permit issued pursuant to § 122.16.

(F) It is unlawful for any operator to permit or allow any vendor under such operator’s control, direction, charge or employ to vend any goods or services from any vehicle pursuant to this section unless such vendor possesses an unexpired and unrevoked vendor's permit issued pursuant to § 122.16.

(G) Each operator causing the sale of or offering for sale any produce or other food item for which a food handling permit or other health permit is required by law shall possess and at all times display such required permit(s) in conspicuous view upon such vehicle.

(H) No vending from such vehicle shall be permitted for a period of time in excess of ten minutes in any one location and said vehicle must be moved a distance of not less than 100 feet between consecutive stops at which vending occurs.

(I) No vehicle shall be parked, stopped, or left standing in any manner which blocks or impedes vehicular access to any driveway or restricts the free movement of other vehicles upon the public street.

(J) No vehicle shall be parked, stopped, or left standing in any manner which blocks or impedes vehicular access to any driveway or restricts the free movement of other vehicles upon the public street.

(K) Each vehicle shall be equipped with a trash receptacle of a size adequate to accommodate all trash and refuse generated by such vending.

(L) Each vendor shall pick up and deposit in the trash receptacle on the vehicle any paper, cups, wrappers, litter or other refuse of any kind which were a part of the goods or services supplied from the vehicle and which have been left or abandoned within 25 feet of such vehicle on any public property other than in a trash receptacle provided for such purposes. No vendor or operator shall dispose of any trash or refuse in any such public or private trash receptacle other than a trash receptacle owned, operated or otherwise provided by and under the control of such vendor or operator. (M) No vending shall be permitted except after the vehicle has been brought to a complete stop and parked adjacent to the curb in a lawful manner.

(N) Any vehicle from which vending occurs pursuant to this section shall have the same name, address and telephone number of the holder of the operator’s permit permanently affixed on both the left and right sides of the vehicle. Such information shall be in contrast to the color of the background upon which the letters are placed.

(O) No vending shall be permitted by any operator or conducted by any vendor except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. of each day.

(P) Any use of amplified sound making devices, including vehicle horns, to advertise, draw attention to or to announce the presence of any such vehicle shall comply with the limitations and provisions set forth in §§ 130.40 et seq. of this code of ordinances. No amplified sound making devices shall be used for such purposed upon any public street immediately contiguous to any residential zone property within the city. Nonamplified sound-making devices shall be permitted for such purposes provided such sounds shall not be made while the vehicle is stopped, parking, or otherwise in a stationary position; and such sounds shall not be audible to a person with normal hearing for a distance of more than 200 feet.

(Q) Any operator or vendor using scales or any other weighing or measuring devices shall have all such scales and devices inspected and sealed by the Weights and Measures Division of the Los Angeles County Department of Agriculture.

(R) All foods, beverages, utensils and equipment offered for sale or utilized on vending vehicles shall at all times be protected from contamination and pollution by dust, dirt, flies, vermin, rodents, animals, unnecessary handling, droplet infection, overhead leakage, insecticides, rodenticide, cleaning compounds and other poisonous or deleterious substances, and all other forms of contamination.

(S) Any ice cream truck shall be equipped at all times, while engaging in vending in a residential area, with signs mounted on the front and rear clearly legible from a distance of 100 feet under daylight conditions, incorporating the words “WARNING” and “CHILDREN CROSSING” . Each sign shall be at least 12 inches by 48 inches wide, with letters of a dark color, at least four inches in height, a one-inch wide solid border, and a sharply contrasting background.

n vending in a residential area, with signs mounted on the front and rear clearly legible from a distance of 100 feet under daylight conditions, incorporating the words “WARNING” and “CHILDREN CROSSING” . Each sign shall be at least 12 inches by 48 inches wide, with letters of a dark color, at least four inches in height, a one-inch wide solid border, and a sharply contrasting background.

(T) The driver of the ice cream truck shall be required to place an orange cone at the left rear of the portion of the vehicle after the vehicle has been stopped and parked adjacent to the curb.

(U) No ice cream trucks shall be permitted to vend on streets with a speed limit of more than 25 miles per hour.

(V) The driver of the ice cream truck shall have an unobstructed view for 200 feet in both directions along the street and of any traffic on the said street.

(W) Unless otherwise waived by the city Police Department and, in addition to other equipment required by law, each food vending vehicle shall be equipped with the following:

(1) A convex mirror mounted so that the occupant of the driver's seat can see the area in the front of the truck which is obscured by the vehicle’s hood.

(2) A back-up alarm audible for a distance of at least 100 feet.

(Ord. 1082, passed 5-18-94; Am. Ord. 1265, passed 8-17-05; Am. Ord. 1431, passed 12-5-18; Am. Ord. 1432, passed 12-5-18; Am. Ord. 1436, passed 2-6-19) Penalty, see § 122.99

PERMITS/BUSINESS LICENSE