§ 10.24.200. Mobile peddler vehicle and operational regulations.

A.

City Business License and Vehicle Code Compliance. No person may engage in, conduct or carry on the business of peddling from a pushcart or motorized vehicle (i.e., a mobile vending vehicle or a mobile food vending vehicle), without a business license issued pursuant to Chapter 5.04 (Business Licenses Generally) of this code. For the purposes of this section, a "mobile vending vehicle" is a vehicle used to sell any product, including food, and a "mobile food vending vehicle" is a vehicle used primarily to sell food. The mobile vending vehicle must be in full compliance with all applicable California Vehicle Code (CVC) provisions and obey all posted parking restrictions including, but not limited to, restrictions on stopping, loading, and parking from either posted signs (including street sweeping restricted days/times) or painted curbs. No mobile vending vehicle may produce any type of solid or liquid discharge onto any street.

B.

Permitted Operating Locations. In general, no peddler may stand or park any pushcart or mobile vending vehicle in any non-residential zone, including on both public and private property and public and private streets, for the purposes of selling any type of goods. However, a temporary use permit (TUP), issued by the city manager, may be obtained for special events (i.e., fundraising events, street fairs, private parties, horse shows) whereby a peddler may be permitted to locate a pushcart or mobile vending vehicle at a specified location in a non-residential zone and operate for the time period specified in the TUP. In addition, an annual TUP may be obtained by a general contractor for any large construction project, city-wide, where a vending vehicle may be permitted to operate for the period of time and locations specified in the TUP. The vending vehicle may only service the construction workers physically working at the particular job site. The TUP will be valid from date of building permit issuance through the date of issuance of the certificate of occupancy.

C.

Health Department Permits. A peddler operating a mobile food vending vehicle must have valid approvals from the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, including but not limited to a food handling permit and a valid letter grade health permit is required, and must be displayed at all times in a conspicuous view upon the peddler's mobile food vending vehicle.

D.

Operating Time Limits. No peddler may stand or park any pushcart or mobile vending vehicle for more than thirty minutes in any residential zone; provided, however, that this thirty-minute time period does not apply to a peddler who is lawfully parked and peddling goods with a temporary use permit (TUP) issued by the city manager for special events or as allowed for by a school event (see below for more requirements for temporary use permits and school property events). No peddler may park within five hundred feet, as measured in any direction, of an area where he or she previously parked at the beginning of the thirty-minute period, until twenty-four hours have elapsed from the end of the thirty-minute period. No peddler may operate or park a mobile vending vehicle on any street or on private property during the hours of eight p.m. through seven a.m. of the next succeeding day, with the exception of a TUP.

E.

Peddling Within Proximity to Schools. No peddler may keep, maintain or operate any pushcart used in selling food products or a mobile food vending vehicle in or upon any public street or other public place, including both public and private property, within five hundred feet of the nearest property line of any property on which a public or private school building is located. This prohibition will not apply if the school principal gives the peddler written permission to park on school property to sell, give away, distribute or offer to sell any food or other products. If the school principal authorizes an individual or entity to peddle on school property, then any peddler who is peddling pursuant to that authorization must provide a copy of the principal's written authorization to the city within five days of receipt of the authorization from the principal, and maintain a copy of the principal's written authorization in his or her possession while the person is peddling on the school's property and must present the letter of authorization, upon request from a city official or employee or representative of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

F.

Restroom Requirements for Mobile Food Peddler. For any peddler operating a mobile food vending vehicle for more than thirty minutes under a temporary use permit (TUP) or on school property with permission from the school principal, there must be sufficient access to nearby or on-site restroom facilities and hand washing stations (not more than two hundred fifty feet away) for employees and patrons while the peddler is operating. The peddler must clearly post on the vehicle, within three feet of the opening in the vehicle through which food or food products are offered for sale or sold and visible to customers, a notice stating that: (1) a toilet and hand washing facility has been made available as required by this subsection; and (2) the location of that facility. Written permission is not required to use publicly owned toilet and hand washing facilities that are open and accessible for use by the general public.

G.

Trash Receptacle Requirements. Each mobile food vending vehicle must be equipped with a trash receptacle of a size adequate to accommodate all trash and refuse generated by such vending. Each peddler must pick up and deposit in the trash receptacle on the vehicle any paper, cups, wrappers, litter, or other refuse of any kind which was a part of the goods or merchandise supplied from the vehicle and which has been left or abandoned within twenty-five feet of such vehicle on any public or private property other than in a trash receptacle provided for such purposes. No peddler may dispose of any trash or refuse in any such public or private trash receptacle other than a trash receptacle owned, operated, or otherwise provided by and under the control of such peddler.

H.

No Peddling Permitted on Traffic Side of Vehicle. Vending is strictly prohibited on the exposed street and/or traffic side of the mobile vending vehicle.

I.

Use of Amplified Devices. No amplified sound-making devices may be used to draw attention to, or announce the presence of, a peddler's mobile vending vehicle upon any public street. Non-amplified sound-making devices may be permitted for such purposes; provided, that (1) such sounds are not made while the vehicle is stopped, parking, or otherwise in a stationary position; and (2) such sounds are not audible to a person with normal hearing for a distance of more than two hundred feet. The peddler must prohibit loitering at the site and control noisy patrons on-site and those leaving the premises. No amplified music or loudspeakers are permitted. The operation must at all times comply with the provisions of the city's noise ordinance.

J.

Distance from Intersection, Driveway and Bus Stops Required. No peddler operating a mobile vending vehicle may operate within twenty-five feet of any street corner controlled by a crosswalk, traffic light, or stop sign. No mobile vending vehicle may park within ten feet of a bus stop, mailbox, and within ten feet of a driveway apron to preserve adequate visibility for vehicles to exit driveways. The city's traffic engineer may require additional distance requirements from driveway aprons given unique circumstances of the adjacent roadway and size of the mobile vending vehicle.

(Prior code § 440)

(Ord. No. 707, Exh. A, 10-10-2016)