§ 18-113. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Establishment includes drug stores, places where alcoholic beverages, as defined by city ordinances or state laws, are sold, restaurants, coffee shops, cafeterias, short order cafes, luncheonettes, taverns, sandwich shops, soda fountains serving food, and all other eating or drinking establishments, as well as kitchens or other places in which food or drink are prepared for sale and beverage bars which also includes soda fountains, beer taverns, soft drink stands, juice stands, liquor bars, or other establishments where any beverages are dispensed to the public for immediate consumption, groceries, bakeries, manufacturing confectioneries, food manufacturing plants, cold storage, ice plants, dairies, creameries and frozen dessert places; provided that the following are excluded from the provisions of this division, to wit: itinerant shows such as bazaars, carnivals, fairs, circuses, public exhibitions and other similar gatherings which will operate for only a temporary period in any one location.

Food means and includes all articles used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment, whether simple, mixed or compound, and all substances or ingredients used in the preparation thereof, including ice cream, ice cream sodas, sundaes, lunches and dinners.

Persons includes owners, employees, food handlers, and "employees" and "food handlers" includes full-time and part-time employees and/or food handlers, whether paid a salary and/or commission or any type of compensation for duties performed for the lessee and/or owner, their agents, representatives and/or employees.

Owners and/or lessees includes those persons owning or operating an establishment selling alcoholic beverages, as defined by city ordinances or by state laws, or any person to whom an alcoholic beverage permit has been issued by the city or by the state, or any person selling food.

Venereal diseases means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venerum and granuloma inguinale, and they are declared to be contagious, infectious and dangerous to public health.

(Code 1976, § 10:200; Ord. No. 601, §§ 1—5, 3-9-1964)