ARTICLE 8-12-27 - MOBILE RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
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- Definitions.
A.
Commissary shall mean an approved catering establishment, restaurant, or other approved place in
which food, containers or supplies are kept, handled, prepared, packaged or stored.
B.
Mobile retail food establishment shall mean a retail food establishment that reports to and operates
from a commissary and is readily movable, is a motorized wheeled vehicle, or a towed wheeled vehicle
designed and equipped to serve food.
C.
Pushcart shall mean a non-self-propelled vehicle limited to serving commissary prepared or
prepackaged food and non-potentially hazardous food, unless the equipment is commercially designed and
approved to handle food preparation and service. Pushcarts shall not be required to comply with mobile
vehicular safety requirements.
D.
Temporary retail food establishment shall mean a retail food establishment, other than a licensed
mobile retail food establishment or pushcart, that is not intended to be permanent and that operates at a fixed
location for a period of time as authorized within the zoning ordinance (Division 708)
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- [License required.]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, food of any type from a commissary, mobile
retail food establishment, pushcart or temporary food establishment without a license first having been
granted under this section, except for city sponsored events.
B.
An application for a license or a permit hereunder shall be submitted to the manager of the business
license department of the City of Marietta setting forth all information required hereunder and in compliance
with this ordinance. The business license manager may develop a form of application for the purpose of
compliance with this article. The review process for said application shall be conducted in conformity with
Marietta Code Section 8-4-080 as now existing or as may be hereafter amended.
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- Prohibited conduct and requirements.
A.
The mobile retail food establishment shall not conduct business or operate under this article on the
public right-of-way.
B.
The mobile retail food establishment shall not operate on any private property without the prior
consent of the owners.
C.
The mobile retail food establishment shall maintain a $1,000,000.00 liability policy. Proof of
current liability insurance, issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in the state,
protecting the licensee, the public and the city from all claims for damage to property and bodily injury,
including death, which may arise from operation under or in connection with the permit.
Such insurance shall name the city as an additional insured and shall provide that the policy shall not terminate
or be canceled prior to the expiration dated without 30 days' advanced written notice to the city.
D.
The mobile retail food establishment shall not emit sounds, outcry, speaker, amplifier or
announcements while traveling on the public rights-of-way.