5.18.030 Mobile food vendor business – License required – Exemptions.
No person, firm or corporation shall engage in a mobile food vendor business without having first obtained a business license from the business license clerk; provided, however, that no license shall be required of the following:
A. Persons, firms or corporations who conduct a casual or isolated sale and who are not engaged in the business of selling the type of food involved.
B. Associations, corporations or organizations not organized for profit, and any community fund or foundation organized and operated exclusively for religious, scientific, public or charitable purposes, no part of the earnings of which ensures to the benefit of any private shareholder, owner, member or individual, and the net earnings of which are devoted exclusively to charitable, educational or recreational purposes.
C. Persons, firms or corporations who conduct the sale of seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables that are unprepared and similar agricultural products, as exempted by RCW 36.71.090.
D. Any “peddler,” as the term is defined in Chapter 5.20 LMC, that is licensed under that same chapter.
E. Any mobile food vendor operating at a special event approved by the city under Chapter 5.30 LMC or an event sponsored by or held in conjunction with the city.
F. The license required under this chapter is separate from the license required under Chapter 5.06 LMC. (Ord. 3343 § 1 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 3253 § 2 (Exh. B), 2017; Ord. 3175 § 4, 2016)