Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 7.72 Public Eating Places

"Public eating place" means and includes every restaurant, lunch room, tea room, coffee shop, soda fountain, public boarding house, hotel, club, beer parlor, cocktail lounge, and every other public place where food or drinks are prepared or served, or both, to be consumed by the public on the premises, and all kitchens, commissaries and other rooms appurtenant thereto, or connected therewith. All places where sandwiches, lunches, or similar food are prepared for sale or gift to the public, shall be classed as public eating places.

(Ord. 5860 Ch. 2 Art. 14 § 651, 1951.)

Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a public eating place shall first procure a license and pay an annual fee for each public eating place in the amount set forth in Section 7.14.010 of this title, under the appropriate heading.

(Ord. 11209 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 10159 § 5 (part), 1970: Ord. 8608 § 1 (part), 1964: Ord. 7159 § 8 (part), 1957: Ord. 6586 § 7 (part), 1954: Ord. 5860 Ch. 2 Art. 14 § 652, 1951.)

Every person engaged in the business of selling liquids or edibles for human consumption from wayside stands upon or adjacent to public highways, or from stores or other established places of business except public eating places, or exclusively by dispensing machine, shall first procure a license and pay an annual license fee for each such wayside stand or store or place of business in the amount set forth in Section 7.14.010 of this title, under the appropriate heading.

(Ord. 11209 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 10217 § 9 (part), 1971: Ord. 8608 § 1 (part), 1964: Ord. 7269 § 3, 1957: Ord. 7159 § 8 (part), 1957: Ord. 6303 § 3, 1953: Ord. 5958 § 11, 1952: Ord. 5860 Ch. 2 Art. 14 § 654, 1951.)

This chapter does not apply to sales of edible agricultural products sold as-grown, which have not been processed in any way other than washing, which sales 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 the edible agriculture products to be sold, 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 are advertised by signs or not.

(Ord. 5860 Ch. 2 Art. 14 § 656, 1951.)