Record #: O2011-4487   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 6/8/2011 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
Final action: 5/20/2015
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 4, 7 and 9 regarding mobile food dispensers and facilities
Sponsors: Waguespack, Scott
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 5 License Fees for Title 4 Licenses, 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, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 7 - Health & Safety - Ch. 42 Food Establishments-Inspections, Violations & Hearing Procedures, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 80 Miscellaneous Rules
Attachments: 1. O2011-4487.pdf
Related files: R2015-407

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 adding new sections 4-8-038 and 4-8-039, by deleting the language struck through and 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)
"Cold storage establishment" means a house or room used for the storage or preservation of food for a period of 30 days or more in which ice, refrigerating machinery or other artificial means of cooling are used.
"Commissary" means any duly licensed food establishment that serves mobile food dispensers, mobile food facilities, vending machines or other food dispensing operations in which where (i) food, containers or supplies are stored;; (ii) kept, food is handled, prepared; or prepackaged for sale or service at other locations; (iii) utensils are cleaned; or (iv) liquid and solid wastes are disposed of or portable water is obtained and directly from which vending machines or other food dispensing operations are serviced.
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of health.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
"Menu change" means a modification of a food establishment's menu that requires a change in the food establishment's food preparation methods, storage equipment or storage capacity previously approved by the department of health. The term "menu change" shall include, but is not limited to, the addition of potentially hazardous food to a menu, installation of new food preparation or storage equipment, or increasing storage capacity.
"Misbranded" means the presence of any written, printed or graph...

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