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2018 Utah Code
Title 11 - Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units
Chapter 56 - Food Truck Licensing and Regulation Act
Section 102 - Definitions.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 11-56-102 (2018)
Effective 5/9/2017
11-56-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
Enacted by Chapter 165, 2017 General Session
Technically renumbered to avoid duplication of section number also enacted in HB163, Chapter 70.
11-56-102. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
- (1) "Event permit" means a permit that a political subdivision issues to the organizer of a public food truck event located on public property.
- (2) "Food cart" means a cart:
- (a) that is not motorized; and
- (b) that a vendor, standing outside the frame of the cart, uses to prepare, sell, or serve food or beverages for immediate human consumption.
- (3)
- (a) "Food truck" means a fully encased food service establishment:
- (i) on a motor vehicle or on a trailer that a motor vehicle pulls to transport; and
- (ii) from which a food truck vendor, standing within the frame of the vehicle, prepares, cooks, sells, or serves food or beverages for immediate human consumption.
- (b) "Food truck" does not include a food cart or an ice cream truck.
- (a) "Food truck" means a fully encased food service establishment:
- (4) "Food truck event" means an event where an individual has ordered or commissioned the operation of a food truck at a private or public gathering.
- (5) "Food truck operator" means a person who owns, manages, or controls, or who has the duty to manage or control, the operation of a food truck.
- (6) "Food truck vendor" means a person who sells, cooks, or serves food or beverages from a food truck.
- (7) "Health department food truck permit" means a document that a local health department issues to authorize a person to operate a food truck within the jurisdiction of the local health department.
- (8) "Ice cream truck" means a fully encased food service establishment:
- (a) on a motor vehicle or on a trailer that a motor vehicle pulls to transport;
- (b) from which a vendor, from within the frame of the vehicle, serves ice cream;
- (c) that attracts patrons by traveling through a residential area and signaling the truck's presence in the area, including by playing music; and
- (d) that may stop to serve ice cream at the signal of a patron.
- (9) "Local health department" means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102.
- (10) "Political subdivision" means:
- (a) a city, town, or metro township; or
- (b) a county, as it relates to the licensing and regulation of businesses in the unincorporated area of the county.
- (11)
- (a) "Temporary mass gathering" means:
- (i) an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly of 500 or more people that continues, or reasonably can be expected to continue, for two or more hours per day; or
- (ii) an event that requires a more extensive review to protect public health and safety because the event's nature or conditions have the potential of generating environmental or health risks.
- (b) "Temporary mass gathering" does not include an assembly of people at a location with permanent facilities designed for that specific assembly, unless the assembly is a temporary mass gathering described in Subsection (11)(a)(ii).
- (a) "Temporary mass gathering" means:
Enacted by Chapter 165, 2017 General Session
Technically renumbered to avoid duplication of section number also enacted in HB163, Chapter 70.
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