Record #: SO2011-4348   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 5/18/2011 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
Final action: 7/6/2011
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 4 and 7 regarding mobile food and frozen desserts dispensers
Sponsors: Moreno, Proco Joe
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 8 Food Establishments, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 7 - Health & Safety - Ch. 38 Food Establishments-Sanitary Operating Requirements
Attachments: 1. SO2011-4348.pdf, 2. O2011-4348.pdf
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SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION I. Chapter 4-8 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
4-8-010 Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and the enforcement of this chapter and chapters 7-38, 7-40 and 7-42 unless the context clearly indicates that another meaning is intended. The listing of items as examples in any definition is intended to be illustrative and not exhaustive.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
"Mobile food dispenser" means any person who, by traveling from place to place upon the public ways, serves food or drink from a wheeled vehicle.
"Mobile frozen desserts dispenser" means any person who, by traveling from place to place upon the public ways, serves from a two-wheeled or three-wheeled motorized or non-motorized vehicle, pushcart, or handcart individual portions of ice cream, ice milk, frozen dessert mix, sundaes or other frozen desserts that are totally enclosed in a wrapper or container and which have been manufactured, prepared or wrapped in a licensed food establishment.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
4-8-036 License - Application - Mobile food dispenser and mobile frozen desserts dispenser-fa) In addition to the general application requirements, an applicant for a mobile food dispenser license shall supply the name and address of the owner of the mobile food-dispensing vehicle, and if the operator of the vehicle is other than the owner, the name of the operator shall also appear on the application. The applicant shall also state where the vehicle is cleaned and stored when not in use, and the department of health shall verify the information provided.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in section 7-38-040 of this Code, an applicant for a mobile frozen desserts dispenser license shall comply with all requirements applicable to the mobile food dispenser license p...

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