For the purpose of this chapter and Chapters
8.08,
8.12 and
8.56, certain words and phrases are defined and certain provisions shall be construed as set forth in this section, unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended:
"Food"
means any substance eaten or drunk for nourishment or refreshment
of the body, whether it is in storage, in process or preparation,
or ready to serve.
"Food establishment"
means and includes any public or private market, shop, store,
factory, bakery, storehouse, warehouse, cold storage plant, or other
place, not a public eating place, in or about which any food, foodstuffs
or provisions are kept, held, sold, stored, prepared or compounded,
or offered for sale for human consumption.
"Hawker"
means any person who vends edible food or food products on
the street, the food or food products being on a vehicle or carried
by a person, including wholesale distribution of food, except:
1.
Distributors of milk, bottled water or ice, rendering the service
of delivering their products to regular customers;
2.
A person who sells edibles from a wayside stand located on property
owned or controlled by him, all of which edibles are grown or raised
on such property by such person or by members of his or her immediate
family;
3.
The operator of a public eating place.
"Health officer"
means the health officer of Los Angeles County, or his or
her duly authorized representative.
"Public eating place"
means and includes every restaurant, lunchroom, tearoom,
coffee shop, soda fountain, public boardinghouse, hotel, club, beer
parlor, cocktail lounge, and every other public place where food or
drinks are prepared or served to be consumed by the public on the
premises, and all kitchens, commissaries and other rooms appurtenant
thereto or connected therewith, and including all kitchens in which
food or drinks are prepared on the premises for sale or distribution
elsewhere.
(Prior code §§ 5101—5105)