Redlands Municipal Code Ch. 10.34 Food Vehicle Vending

For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them.

CROSSWALK: As defined by the vehicle code, as that term may be amended from time to time.

DIRECTOR: The facilities and community services department, and the director's designee.

FOOD VENDING VEHICLE OR VENDING VEHICLE: Any vehicle or trailer, as those terms are defined in the vehicle code, which is equipped or used for retail sales of produce and/or prepared, prepackaged, or unprepared, unpackaged food or foodstuff of any kind, on any public street, alley, or highway, or private street or alley, within the city. The inventory of these vehicles is not necessarily limited to edible items and may include non-food sundries.

OPERATOR: Any entity and all persons that own, control, manage, and/or leases a food vending vehicle; and/or contracts with any person to drive, operate, prepare food in, and/or vend from, a food vending vehicle; and/or drive, operate, vend and/or prepare food in or from a food vending vehicle.

PERSON: One or more persons, groups, businesses, business trusts, companies, corporations, joint ventures, joint stock companies, partnerships, entities, associations, clubs, or organizations composed of two (2) or more individuals (or the manager, lessee, agent, servant, officer, or employee of any of them), whether engaged in business, nonprofit, or any other activity.

RESTOCKING: The transfer of food, goods or merchandise to a food vending vehicle from any other person or vehicle and includes, but is not limited to, loading and delivery of food, goods and merchandise.

SCHOOL: Any institution of learning for minors, whether public or private, offering instruction in those courses of study required by the education code and maintained pursuant to standards set by the state board of education. This definition includes a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, middle or junior high school, senior high school, or any special institution of education, but it does not include either a vocational institution or a professional institution of higher education, including a community or junior college, college, or university.

STREET: Shall be defined by the vehicle code, as that term may be amended from time to time.

VEND OR VENDING: To sell, offer for sale, display for sale, or solicit offers to purchase food, food products, beverages, goods, or merchandise on a public or private street, alley, highway or public place within the city and includes the movement or standing of a food vending vehicle for the purpose of searching for, obtaining or soliciting retail sales of produce, prepared food, prepackaged food or non-food sundries. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

A. No person, either for themselves or for any other person, shall conduct or engage in food vehicle vending within the city without first obtaining a city business license pursuant to this section.

B. Each operator shall possess and at all times display in conspicuous view upon each such vehicle a city business license.

C. Every food vending vehicle shall have the name, address, and telephone number of the holder of the business license permanently affixed on both the left and right sides of the vehicle. Such information shall be in letters and numerals not less than four (4) inches in height and shall be in contrast to the color of the background upon which the letters are placed. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

Each operator vending any produce or other food items shall comply with all San Bernardino County environmental health services department requirements for mobile food facilities, as well as all required food handling permits. Each operator shall possess and at all times display such permits in conspicuous view upon each vending vehicle. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

No additional lighting, other than that required by the vehicle code, may be installed or operated on a food vending vehicle. Any signage or display for a food vending vehicle must comply with the generally applicable sign regulations contained in chapter 15.36 of this code. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

A. No operator of a food vending vehicle shall operate any sound amplification systems or other sound making devices or music systems to advertise, draw attention to, or announce the presence of any such vehicle while such vehicle is moving, stopped, standing, or parked upon any public or private street.

B. No owner or operator of a vending vehicle shall permit vending within two hundred fifty (250) feet from a school, park, community center, public playground facility, or certified farmer's market.

C. No owner or operator shall permit the vending vehicle to vend within fifty (50) feet of a marked or unmarked crosswalk in an intersection.

D. No food vending 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 any public or private street.

E. No food vending 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 any public or private street. Vending shall only be permitted where the food vending vehicle has been brought to a complete stop and parked adjacent to the curb in a lawful manner.

F. Vending from a food vending vehicle while the vehicle is parked, stopped, or standing on any public or private street, alley, or highway is permitted only when that part of the food vending vehicle open to prospective customers is on the side of the vehicle immediately next to the right side of the public or private street, alley, or highway. Under no circumstances may vending occur from the left side of a food vending vehicle. Notwithstanding the above provisions, no person shall vend to any customer whose location creates a traffic hazard.

G. All food vending vehicles shall maintain and make refuse containers available large enough to contain all trash and refuse generated by the operation of such vehicle. The operator of the food vending vehicle shall pick up all trash and refuse generated by the operator's vending, during the time the vehicle is stopped, that is within not less than a fifty (50) foot radius of the vehicle, before such vehicle is moved. Restocking of a food vending vehicle shall only occur where the vehicle is lawfully parked, and such restocking does not restrict vehicle or pedestrian traffic or otherwise create a traffic hazard. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

A. No food vending vehicle shall attach to, or receive, any electrical power or other utilities from any public or private property while the vehicle is located on any private or public street or alley, without a permit issued by the city.

B. A food vending vehicle doing business at one location for more than one (1) hour must operate within two hundred (200) feet of an approved restroom, the distance being measured from the food vending vehicle to the entrance of the structure in which the restroom facilities are located.

C. Approved restroom must have warm water of a temperature at least one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (100°F), soap, hand dryer and single-use paper towels.

D. Vending is prohibited from a food vending vehicle that is parked, stopped, or standing on any public street, alley, or highway where the posted speed limit on the public street, alley, or highway is thirty-five (35) miles per hour or greater.

E. No owner or operator of a vending vehicle shall permit objects, including but not limited to tables, chairs, or other furniture, trash receptacles, generators or equipment, to be placed into that portion of the street, alley or highway which is open to vehicular traffic, nor shall any object, including but not limited to tables, chairs, other furniture, trash receptacles, generators or equipment, be placed within or upon the parkway or sidewalk.

F. In conformance with the California retail food code, and County of San Bernardino environmental health services department, food vending vehicles shall be stored at or within an approved commissary in order to have protection from unsanitary conditions. Food vending vehicles shall not be stored overnight outside of an approved commissary. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

This chapter shall not apply to any city-sponsored event where the operator of the food vending vehicle is operating pursuant to a valid contract with, or other written approval by, the city manager or his or her designee. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

A. Notwithstanding any ordinance to the contrary, it is unlawful for any person to operate a food vending vehicle on the following designated public streets and sidewalks within the City of Redlands.

• 1. East State Street, from the west side of Orange Street to Redlands Boulevard.
• 2. East Citrus Avenue, from Eureka Street to the east side of 9th Street.
• 3. Redlands Boulevard, from Texas Street to East Citrus Avenue.
• 4. West State Street, from North Center Street to the east side of North Eureka Street.
• 5. Oriental Avenue, from Texas Street to the east side of Orange Street.
• 6. West Stuart Avenue, from Texas Street to the east side of Orange Street.
• 7. Eureka Street, from West Citrus Avenue to West Pearl Avenue.
• 8. Cajon Street, from East Olive Avenue to West Pearl Avenue.
• 9. 3rd Street, from West Redlands Boulevard to Oriental Avenue.
• 10. 6th Street from East Olive Avenue to West Pearl Avenue.
• 11. East Olive Avenue, from Cajon Street to East Citrus Avenue.
• 12. East Vine Street, from Cajon Street to 6th Street.
• 13. North 5th Street, from East Citrus Avenue to East Redlands Boulevard.
• 14. 7th Street, from East Citrus Avenue to East Redlands Boulevard.
• 15. 8th Street, from East Citrus Avenue to East Redlands Boulevard.
• 16. 9th Street, from East Citrus Avenue to East Redlands Boulevard.

B. Notwithstanding any ordinance to the contrary, it is unlawful for any person to operate a food vending vehicle within any area of the city with a single-family residential zoning designation or any variation thereof. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)

Unless a different penalty is prescribed for violation of a specific provision of this code, every act prohibited or declared unlawful, and every failure to perform an act made mandatory by this code, is punishable as a misdemeanor. Every person who causes, aids, abets or conceals a violation of this code is guilty of violating this code. Each person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day or portion thereof during which any violation of any provision of this code is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation and shall be punishable therefor as provided in this chapter. The remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity. All violations of this chapter, at the discretion of the city, shall be punishable misdemeanors. (Ord. 2910, 7-21-2020)