§ 3.15.010. Definitions.

The words and phrases listed below when used in this Chapter shall have the following meanings:

(a)

'City' means the City of Wichita, Kansas.

(b)

'City Approved Event' means any event sponsored by the City or any community event sanctioned by a permit issued by the City pursuant to Chapter 3.11 of this Code.

(c)

'Food and/or Beverage' means articles used for food or drink for humans or animals, chewing gum, and/or articles used for components of any such article, in accordance with the definition of food within K.S.A. 65-656 and amendments thereto.

(d)

'Mobile Food Vending' means to conduct, hold, carry on, pursue or operate a business of vending, peddling, hawking and/or selling any food and/or beverage from a Mobile Food Unit.

(e)

'Mobile Food Vendor' means any person, corporation, association, or other entity, however organized, that offers any food or beverage for sale from a Mobile Food Unit, subject to the exceptions set forth in Section 3.15.030.

(f)

'Mobile Food Unit' or 'Unit' means any self-contained vehicle, trailer, cart, wagon, or other type of conveyance from which any food and/or beverage is offered for sale.

(g)

'Person' means an individual, corporation, partnership, company, agency, institution, or any other entity.

(h)

'Public property' means any property publicly owned, including but not limited to streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks, parking lots, easements, improved or unimproved land, or any buildings or physical structures owned or managed by the City of Wichita or other governmental agency.

(i)

'Public right-of-way' means the entire width of the area from property line to property line including all area intended, designed or used for vehicular or pedestrian traffic and the area between the roadway and the abutting private property line.

(j)

'Restaurant' means an establishment where the principal business is the sale of food and beverages in a ready-to-consume state, but shall not include a Tavern or Drinking Establishment, as those terms are defined in this Code.

(Ord. No. 50-382, §§ 1, 2, 12-13-16)