HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #3622 ORDINANCE NO. 3111
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING CHAPTER 5.50 OF THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO MOBILE VENDING
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 5.50.020 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.020 Definitions: For the purposes of this Chapter:
(a) Chief of Police - shall mean the Police Chief or his or her designee.
(b) City Administrator- shall mean the City Administrator or his or her designee.
(c) City Attorney- shall mean the City Attorney or his or her designee.
(d) City Treasurer- shall mean the City Treasurer or his or her designee.
(e) Director of Planning- shall mean the Planning Director(herein Director) or his or her
designee.
(f) Goods or Merchandise - includes items and products of every kind and description,
including all foods,produce, and beverage items.
(g) Human Powered Devise - shall mean any device moved by human power including
but not necessarily limited to any pushcart, wagon, bicycle,tricycle, grocery cart,or
other wheeled container or conveyance.
(h) Ice Cream Truck(s)—shall mean a motor vehicle engaged in the curbside vending or
sale of frozen or refrigerated desserts, confections, or novelties commonly known as
ice cream, or prepackaged candies,prepackaged snack foods, or soft drinks, primarily
intended for the sale to children under 12 years of age.
(i) Mobile Vending Vehicle - shall mean any vehicle, as that term is defined in the
California Vehicle Code,which is equipped or primarily used for retail sales of fruits,
vegetables or produce, and/or prepared, pre-packaged, or unprepared, unpackaged
food of any kind on any public street, alley or highway or private street or alley
within the City of Huntington Beach. The inventory of these vehicles is not
necessarily limited to edible items and may include non-food sundries. A human
powered device is not a mobile vending vehicle.
(j) Mobile Vendor- shall mean any person, as defined in this article,who:
(1) Owns, controls,manages and/or leases a vending vehicle; and/or
(2) Contracts with a person(s)to drive, operate,prepare foods and/or vend from a
food vending vehicle.
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(k) O erator as used in this chapter shall mean any and all person(s)who drive, operate,
prepare foods and/or vend from a food vending vehicle.
(1) Person-shall mean any natural person, firm,partnership, association, corporation, or
other entity of any kind or nature.
(m)Public property- shall mean any real property, or interest therein, owned, leased,
operated, or otherwise controlled by the City of Huntington Beach other than a street,
alley,parkway or sidewalk.
(n) Restocking- shall mean any transfer of goods or merchandise to a mobile vending
vehicle from any other person or vehicle and includes,but is not limited to loading
and delivery.
(o) Risk Manager- shall mean the City's Risk Manager or his or her designee.
(p) Vehicle - shall mean as defined in the Vehicle Code of the State of California and
shall not include any human powered device.
(q) Vend or Vending - as used in this chapter means soliciting, displaying, or offering
produce, fruits,vegetables, prepared food,pre-packaged food or non-food sundries of
any kind for sale or barter or exchange from a vehicle on a public or private street,
alley,highway or public place within the City of Huntington Beach and includes the
movement or standing of a vending vehicle for the purpose of searching for, obtaining
or soliciting retail sales of produce, fruits, vegetables,prepared food,pre-packaged
food or non-food sundries, including but not limited to goods, wares, or merchandise.
(r) Vendor- shall mean any person who engages in the act of vending from a vehicle or
who drives or otherwise operates any such vehicle for the purpose of vending
therefrom.
SECTION 2. Section 5.50.040 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.040 Vendor's Permit Required. Any person desiring to obtain a vendor's permit to
engage in the vending of goods or merchandise from a vehicle, or driving of such vehicle,
pursuant to this section shall make application to the Director, or his or her designee.
Such application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee in such
amount as established by resolution of the City Council.Any such permit shall be
required to be renewed annually and a separate nonrefundable application fee paid yearly
for such renewal application. Each applicant for a vendor's permit, or an operator or
applicant for an operator's permit on behalf of such proposed vendor, shall furnish the
following information and documentation as part of or in conjunction with such
application:
(a) The present of proposed address from which the business is to be conducted,
including the location of, restocking and overnight parking of the mobile vending
ordinance;
(b) The full and true name under which the business will be conducted;
(c) The full and true name and any other names used by the applicant;
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(d) The present residence address and telephone number of the applicant;
(e) California Driver's License number of the applicant;
(f) Acceptable written proof that the applicant is at least eighteen years of age;
(g) The applicant's height,weight, color of eyes and hair, and date of birth;
(h) The business, occupation or employment history of the applicant for the three (3)year
period immediately preceding the date of the application;
(i) The permit history of the applicant, for the three (3) year period immediately
preceding the date of the filing of the application, including whether such applicant,
in previously operating in this or any other city, county, state or territory, has ever had
any similar license or permit, or franchise revoked or suspended, and if so,the
circumstances of such suspension or revocation;
(j) Written proof satisfactory to the City Attorney or Risk Manager that the applicant is
insured under the policy of insurance required for such business pursuant to
§ 5.50.090 of this Chapter;
(k) When any change occurs regarding the written information required in this Chapter,
prior to issuance of a permit,the applicant shall give written notification of such
change to the Director within two (2)weeks after such change;
(1) If the applicant is an individual who intends to own, operate and drive his or her own
vehicle, it is not necessary to pay a fee for the vendor's permit application separate
from the fee paid for the operator's permit application.
SECTION 3. Section 5.50.050 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.050 Operator's permit required - Application for Operator's Permit; Contracts;
Required Fee. Any person desiring to obtain an operator's permit to conduct or
otherwise operate the business of vending goods or merchandise from a vehicle pursuant
to this Section shall make application to the Director or his/her designated representative.
Such application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee in such
amount as established by Resolution of the City Council. Any such permit shall be
required to be renewed annually and a separate nonrefundable application fee paid yearly
for such renewal application. Each applicant for an operator's permit shall furnish the
following information and documentation as part of or in conjunction with such
application:
(a) The present or proposed address from which the business is to be conducted;
(b) The full and true name under which the business will be conducted;
(c) The full and true name and any other names used by the applicant;
(d) The present residence and business addresses and telephone numbers of the applicant;
(e) A description of the goods or merchandise which the business will vend;
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(f) The number of vehicles to be owned, operated, or controlled by the applicant and the
makes, body styles, years, serial and engine numbers, state license plate numbers, and
names and addresses of the registered and/or legal owners of each vehicle;
(g) A description of the logo, color scheme, insignia, and any other distinguishing
characteristics of the applicant's vehicles.
SECTION 4. Section 5.50.060 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.060 Issuance of Permit. The Director shall grant the vendor's permit or operator's
permit within ten(10) days after receiving the completed application only if he or she
finds that all of the following requirements have been met:
(a) The required fees have been paid;
(b) The application conforms in all respects to the provisions of this section;
(c) The applicant has not made a material misrepresentation of fact in the application;
(d) The applicant has not had a similar permit denied or revoked by the City of
Huntington Beach within a period of one year prior to the date of such application;
(e) The applicant does not have any outstanding debt owing to the City of Huntington
Beach;
SECTION 5. Section 5.50.070 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.070 Denial of Permit. If the Director does not find that all of the requirements set
forth in § 5.50.060 as applicable have been met,he or she shall deny the application for
the vendor's or operator's permit. In the event the application for the permit is denied by
the Director, written notice of such denial shall be given to the applicant specifying the
ground or grounds of such denial.Notice of denial of the application for the permit shall
be deemed to have been served upon the date it is personally serviced on the applicant or
when deposited in the United States mail with postage prepaid and addressed to the
applicant at his or her residence address as set forth in the application for the permit.
Any applicant whose application for a vendor's or operator's permit has been denied by
the Director may appeal such denial to the City Administrator by filing a written notice of
appeal with the Director within ten(10) days following the date of service of the decision
and payment of the appeal fee prescribed by resolution of the City Council. The date of
filing of said notice of appeal shall be the date said notice and appeal fee are received by
the Director.
No person or entity whose permit is finally denied shall be eligible to apply for a new
permit for a period of one year following such final denial.
SECTION 6. Section 5.50.080 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
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5.50.080 Revocation of Permit. Any vendor's or operator's permit may be revoked by
the Director for good cause shown including but not necessarily limited to any of the
following reasons:
(a)Falsification of any information supplied by the permittee upon which issuance of the
permit was based;
(b) Failure of the permittee, or any employees or subcontractors of the permittee,to
comply with the regulations set forth in this section;
(c) Conviction of a violation, or plea of guilty or nolo contondere,by the permittee, or
any employee, subcontractor or independent contractor of the permittee, of any state
law or municipal ordinance while in the course of conducting vending operations
from a vehicle pursuant to the permit;
(d) Conviction of a violation, or a plea of guilty or nolo contendere,by the permittee of
any applicable provision or requirement of this section;
(e) No such revocation shall become effective until expiration of the appeal period.
Notification of the permit holder shall be made either by personal delivery or by
certified or registered mail,return receipt requested, addressed to the permit holder at
such permit holder's residence address as set forth on the application for a permit.
Service shall be deemed made on the permit holder on the date personally delivered
or on the date of mailing. A permit holder may appeal such revocation to the City
Administrator by filing a written notice of appeal with the Director within ten(10)
days following the date of service of such decision and payment of the appeal fee as
prescribed by resolution of the City Council. The date of filing of said notice of
appeal shall be the date said notice and appeal fee are received by the Director. If a
timely appeal is filed,the revocation shall be stayed pending the decision of the City
Administrator. Otherwise the suspension or revocation shall become effective
immediately upon expiration of said appeal period.
(f) No person or entity whose permit is revoked shall be eligible to apply for a new
permit for a period of one year following such revocation.
SECTION 7. Section 5.50.170 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.170 Prohibited Conduct.
(a) No person shall vend from a Mobile Vending vehicle, except for ice cream trucks,
which is stopped,parked or standing on any public street, alley or highway in any of
the following situations:
(1) Within three hundred (300)feet of any public school property,park,playground
or recreational facility;
(2) Within three hundred feet(300') of any other Mobile Vending vehicle which is
engaged in the operation of vending;
(3) Within one hundred (100')feet of an intersection(including public alleys);
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(4) When the posted speed limit on the public street, alley or highway is greater than
thirty-five (35)miles per hour.
(5) When the Mobile Vending vehicle is parked in violation of any other provision of
this Code or the California Vehicle Code.
6 When the Mobile Vending vehicle i u registered d licen e th( ) g s dulyan licensed by e State of
California with an unladen weight exceeding six thousand(6,000)pounds.
(7) When any part of the Mobile Vending vehicle is open to prospective customers
other than on the side of the vehicle next to the right side of the street or highway;
(8) When the Mobile Vending vehicle is not stopped,parked or standing on the right
side of the street or highway;
(9) When the prospective customer is standing or sitting in another vehicle; or,
(10)When the prospective customer is located in that portion of the street, alley or
highway which is open to vehicular traffic;
(11)When the Mobile Vending vehicle is within any parkway, alley, sidewalk or
within a no parking area as defined by Huntington Beach Municipal Code
§ 10.40.050, or other public property.
(b) Re-stocking of a Mobile Vending vehicle is prohibited on a public street or alley.
(c) No Mobile Vending vehicle shall attach to or receive any utilities from private or
public property.
(d) No additional lighting other than that required by the California Vehicle Code may be
installed or operated on a Mobile vending vehicle.
(e) All Mobile Vending vehicles are prohibited from operating on private property except
mobile vending vehicles shall be permitted to provide meals/snacks for employees at
the private property for a period of thirty(30)minutes or less (such as construction
sites).
(f) All vending from any human powered device is prohibited.
SECTION 8. Section 5.50.190 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
5.50.190 Conducting as a Nuisance. Any Mobile Vending vehicle operated contrary to
the provisions of this article shall be hereby declared to be unlawful and a public
nuisance and the City Attorney may, in addition to or in lieu of prosecuting a criminal
action hereunder, commence an action or actions,proceeding or proceedings, for the
abatement,removal or enjoyment thereof, in the manner provided in Chapter 17.10 of the
Huntington Beach Municipal Code, and may take such other steps and may apply to such
court or courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate or remove such
establishment and restrain and enjoin any person from operating a Mobile Vending
vehicle contrary to the provisions of this article.
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SECTION 9. This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 1st day of December , 2003.
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ATTEST:
ltU� APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: Attorney
IN ITI ED AND APPROVED:
City inistrator ���
Director o Planning
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the
City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at
a regular meeting thereof held on the 17th day of November, 2003, and was again read
to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 1st day of December,
2003, and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the
members of said City Council.
AYES: Sullivan, Coerper, Hardy, Green, Boardman, Cook,Houchen
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
I,Connie Brockway,CITY CLERK of the City of
Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Council,do hereby certify that a synopsis of this
ordinance has been published in the Huntington Beach
Fountain Valley Independent on 1 Ith
December,2003.
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In accordance with the City Charter of said City
Connie Brockway,Ci , Clerk City Clerk and ex-officio C rk
Deputy City Clerk of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California