Number
070557
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
An ordinance relating to the peddling of food and beverages, including water, by minors less than 18 years of age.
Sections
74-3 cr
Analysis
This ordinance creates a new section of the code to specifically address peddling of food and beverages, including water, by minors less than 18 years of age. Currently, the code provides for regulation of vehicular and ice cream food peddlers, and defines a food peddler in s. 74-1-1.5-c to mean any person who sells food from a pushed, peddled, pulled or motorized vehicle or from a carried container. This ordinance provides an expanded definition where food peddlers are less than 18 years of age by defining a “minor food peddler” to include persons under 18 years of age who sell, offer for sale, solicit for sale, collect for sale, display or distribute food on any street or other public place whether or not from a vehicle or container. The ordinance further:
1. Prohibits the employment of children under 12 years of age in peddling food or beverages, including water, upon the streets or other public places, and prohibits responsible adults and certain older youths from permitting children less than 12 years of age to engage in food and beverage peddling activities.
2. Requires that the peddling food or beverages, including water, by minors must be in accord with applicable permit and other requirements of the code and state law.
3. Prohibits minors from peddling food or beverages, including water, from medians or safety islands and prohibits responsible adults or older youth from engaging minors in such activities, consistent with s. 74-1-2.5; and further prohibits minors from going into the street on foot for purposes of peddling food, including water and other beverages. An exception is provided for streets and medians that have been appropriately closed to traffic for events.
4. Provides forfeitures for the following:
Employing or perm...
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