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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 17-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="17-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Department.">“Department” means the Baltimore City Department of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Food product.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Food product” means any item used as food, drink, confectionery, or condiment for human consumption, whether simple or compound.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusions.">“Food product” does not include medicine, drugs, or alcohol.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Ice cream truck.">“Ice cream truck” means a vendor that earns substantially all of its revenue from the sale of ice cream or similar frozen food confections from a vehicle.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Mobile vendor.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Mobile vendor” means any person that sells, distributes, or offers to sell or distribute food products, other merchandise of any kind, or services from a motor vehicle on City streets or private property within the City of Baltimore.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exclusion.">“Mobile vendor” does not include a horse-drawn wagon.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Mobile vending zone.">“Mobile vending zone” means an area designated in accordance with &lt;cite data-path="|15|§17-5"&gt;§ 17-5 {“Mobile vending zones”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; for the use of mobile vendors.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Motor vehicle.">“Motor vehicle” has the meaning stated in &lt;cite data-path="|31"&gt;Article 31&lt;/cite&gt;, §1-2(c){“Motor vehicle”}.</para>
    <para num="(h)" />
    <para num="(i)" heading="Street.">“Street” means any street, boulevard, road, highway, alley, lane, sidewalk, footway, mall, esplanade, or other way or place that is owned by the City or habitually used by the public.</para>
    <para num="(j)" heading="Street vendor.">“Street vendor” means:<para num="(1)">a mobile vendor; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any other person who sells or distributes, or offers to sell or distribute food products or other merchandise on any street.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(k)" heading="Vendor truck.">“Vendor truck” means any motor vehicle used for the purpose of selling any food product, other merchandise, or service by a mobile vendor.</para>
    <para num="(l)" heading="Vendor vehicle.">“Vendor vehicle” means:<para num="(1)">any animal-drawn wagon;</para>
      <para num="(2)">any motor vehicle; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">any trailer, handcart, pushcart, or other vehicle.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 15, §100(a)(3rd sen.)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 74-590</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 86-685</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-854</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-237</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-124</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">For the Code-wide standard definition of “person”, see &lt;cite data-path="|general"&gt;City General Provisions Article&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite data-path="|general|1|1|1-107"&gt;§ 1-107&lt;/cite&gt;.</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
