Los Angeles County Municipal Code Art. 2 Definitions

"Approved" means approved by the director of public health.

(Ord. 2006-0040 § 75, 2006; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 315, 1959.)

"Bakery" means any room, building or place used or operated for the purpose of making, preparing or baking bread, cakes, pies, pastry, doughnuts, rolls, biscuits, crackers, noodles, macaroni, tamales or spaghetti, or other products of flour and meal, hereinafter called "bakery products," to be sold for food, except that the term "bakery" shall not be construed to include any establishment engaged in the preparation of bakery products in any restaurant or itinerant restaurant wherein any such bakery product in prepared to be used, and used exclusively with meals served in or from such restaurant or itinerant restaurant.

(Ord. 7616 § 1 (part), 1959; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 311, 1959.)

"Bakery product vehicle" means a vehicle used for carrying or transporting bakery products for the purpose of distribution, gift or sale at a point other than where manufactured, except vehicles that are delivering bakery products to retail or wholesale establishments for resale.

(Ord. 8588 § 2 (part), 1964; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 311.1, 1959.)

"Box lunch" means an assortment of foods or foodstuffs sufficient in quantity and variety to constitute a meal, packed or placed in a box or container and to be eaten at a place other than the premises upon which the food is prepared.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 314, 1959.)

"Caterer" means any person who transports food for profit, and serves or offers for service by others on order, such food, as a meal or a portion of a meal, at a place other than his place of business, but shall not include markets, bakeries or similar

food establishments preparing, serving or delivering wrapped foods.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 312, 1959.)

"Food" means all articles and substances used for food and drink, confectionery or condiment whether simple or compound, and all ingredients and components used in the preparation thereof.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 303, 1959.)

"Food establishment" means any public or private market, shop, store, storehouse, bakery, food processing establishment or any other plant or place, not a restaurant, itinerant restaurant, caterer, wayside stand, temporary refreshment stand or vending machine, in or about which food is stored, prepared or offered for sale or gift for human consumption.

(Ord. 2008-0013 § 11, 2008; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 310, 1959.)

"Itinerant restaurant" means any restaurant operating for a temporary period or time, not to exceed 30 days at any one location on any one premises, and shall include any stand or facility which is portable and used for the preparation and service of foods, other than a temporary refreshment stand. "Itinerant restaurant" may include a vehicle, provided it is maintained in a mobile condition and currently registered by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

(Ord. 9375 § 1 (part), 1967; Ord. 8588 § 1 (part), 1964; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 308, 1959.)

"Lunch service vehicle" means a vehicle from which is dispensed ready-to-eat food and drink which has been prepared and sealed or packaged in a licensed establishment.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 305, 1959.)

"Nuisance" means and includes any of the following:

A.

Any public nuisance known to common law or equity jurisprudence, and whatever is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health;

B.

Overcrowding a room with occupants;

C.

Inadequate or insanitary sewerage or plumbing facilities;

D.

Insufficient ventilation or illumination;

E.

Uncleanliness, or anything that renders air, food and drink detrimental to the health of human beings.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 318, 1959.)

"Operator" means anyone who, as an employee, manager, owner or otherwise, is engaged in the preparation, dispensing or handling of food or food products.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 302, 1959.)

"Restaurant" means, but is not limited to, any coffee shop, cafeteria, school cafeteria, shortorder cafe, luncheonette, tavern, cocktail lounge, sandwich stand, soda fountain, club, hotel, boarding house, fraternal organization, employee or in-plant feeding establishment, or other public eating or drinking establishment which prepares and offers, for sale or gift, food and drink to the public, as well as kitchens in which food and drink is prepared on the premises; for sale, gift or distribution elsewhere.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 307, 1959.)

"Slaughterhouse" means any establishment in which anyone, other than for his own use, slaughters more than one horse, mule or ass per day.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 313, 1959.)

"Temporary refreshment stand" means any food-preparation or dispensing operation conducted in connection with a fair, circus, or public exhibition or gathering, offering food for sale or gift to the general public for a temporary period of time in one location.

(Ord. 9375 § 1 (part), 1967; Ord. 8614 § 1 (part), 1964; Ord. 7583 Part 3 § 309, 1959.)

"Wayside stand" means any stand from which is offered, for sale or as a gift, edible agricultural products as grown, which have not been processed in any other way than other washing, which sales or gifts are made from residences or other structures by the owners or tenants thereof, or members of their immediate families, where such residences or other structures are not designed, constructed or altered so as to display such edible agricultural products, or where such structures are temporary and without sides of any kind, and such residences or other structures are located on the property on which such edible agricultural products are raised, grown or produced, whether such sales or gifts are advertised by signs or not.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 1 § 306, 1959.)