[Ord. No. 2021-31, 7-27-2021]
The purpose of this Chapter is to provide a system of regulations to preserve and promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the public that is compatible with mobile food vending.
[Ord. No. 2021-31, 7-27-2021]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have this prescribed meaning:
An individual or entity providing for the preparation and sale of food with the use of traveling cooking equipment used for vending. Approved equipment includes motorized food trucks, tow behind trailers and cooking equipment that can be erected under a tent on a temporary basis.
A licensed, motorized vehicle (sometimes referred to generally as a "food truck") that includes a self-contained or attached trailer kitchen in which food is prepared, processed, or stored and such vehicle is used to sell and dispense food to the public.
[Ord. No. 2021-31, 7-27-2021; Ord. No. 2024-25, 6-25-2024]
A.
A person engage in a mobile food vending business activity shall comply with the following regulations.
1.
Mobile food vending activity and the location of any mobile food vehicle is to be temporary. A mobile food vehicle may not park on an individual lot for more than twelve (12) hours during any twenty-four (24) hour period unless part of an approved special event, in which case the vehicle may be continually parked in one (1) individual location but only for the period of the approved special event.
2.
A mobile food vendor may not operate on any lot directly adjoining or across from any lot that has upon it an annually licensed business that primarily sells food and/or beverage products, and in no event within one hundred and fifty (150) feet of the main entrance of any annually licensed business that primarily sells food and/or beverages to the general public, unless the owner or authorized agent of said business gives their written consent, a copy of which consent must be available for inspection. Additionally, a mobile food vendor may not operate within five hundred (500) feet of any licensed special event without the consent of the holder of the permit for the special event or his/her authorized agent. A copy of said consent shall be kept available for inspection.
3.
A mobile food vehicle may not operate upon any public land, right-of-way, or leased parking space unless as a part of an approved, permitted special event, and the holder of the special event permit gives written consent for operation within the permitted event area.
4.
No use of a public or private power source is permitted without the written consent of the owner, and such consent shall be available for inspection.
5.
Any person engaged in mobile food vending shall have for any mobile food vehicle a current copy of their sales tax certificate, lease/property use consent letter from the landowner or their authorized agent which shall specify a description of the property, the name of the mobile food vendor and the period that he/she is permitted to use the property. In addition, anyone engaged in mobile food vending must provide Health Department compliance and required inspection reports, vehicle registration and insurance that meets or exceeds the State requirements and a food liability policy that has minimum policy limits of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00), and a copy of their required City, County, and/or State business licenses.
6.
Any person engaged in mobile food vending shall provide a sanitation plan, which must be approved by the City's Public Work's Director, that provides for disposal of grease and other liquids and solids, which under no circumstances are to be discharged into the City's wastewater or storm sewer systems. A mobile food vehicle shall be equipped with self-contained water and wastewater tanks; and they shall not be permitted to connect to any municipal residential or commercial utility service of the City of Lake Ozark. In addition, any person engaged in mobile food vending shall provide for trash and recycling containers for use by their patrons and shall police and keep clean the area within twenty-five (25) feet of their mobile operations of all trash and other debris. Such trash and debris must be deposited into a non-public trash container and properly disposed of.
7.
Any mobile food vending operation shall have no more than one (1) sign, no larger than twenty-four inches by thirty-six inches (24" x 36"), that is not physically attached to the mobile food vehicle and must be upon the same property as the mobile food operation is taking place and only for the term of actual operations.
[Ord. No. 2021-31, 7-27-2021]
A.
Mobile food vehicles and mobile food vending equipment may operate at special events, so long as the mobile unit is located totally within the property owned, occupied, or leased by the operators of the special event. For purposes of this provision, as special event shall mean an event that has received a permit for such activity in conformity with Chapter 612 of the City's Code. Mobile food vehicles operate under the terms and conditions of the issuance of the special event permit for the times and place permitted. It is the responsibility of the official special event organizer to recruit, monitor, and control vendors present within their event space.
B.
Mobile food vehicle operations, such as an ice cream truck, shall be allowed to sell merchandise on a public right-of-way under the following conditions: