12-2022 - Amend 743.03 Mobile Food Service Operation Permit

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Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Litten ORDINANCE NO. 12-2022 BY: Of Malley, Rader, Shachner -------------- AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council amending Section 743.03 Mobile Food Service Operation Permit of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood to change the expiration date to better reflect the mobile food service season. WHEREAS, Lakewood Codified Ordinance §743.03 currently provides that Mobile Food Service Operation Permits expire December 31 of each year; and WHEREAS, vendors have complained that this is inconvenient as they usually winterize their trucks for the winter and need to have a fire inspection in order to obtain a new permit; and WHEREAS, changing the expiration date will allow vendors to renew each spring in anticipation of the new season; and WI -AREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that extending permits which expired December 319 2021 will allow for a smooth transition to these new procedures; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. That Section 743.03 Mobile Food Service Operation Permit, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances reading as follows: 743.03 MOBILE FOOD SERVICE OPERATION PERMIT. (a) No person shall cause a mobile food service operator to operate in the City unless the operator has received a mobile food service operation permit from the City. (b) An application for a mobile food service permit shall be submitted to the Division of Housing and Building on a form provided by the Director of Public Safety. Applicants must provide the following documentation upon submittal of the permit application: (1) A copy of a current mobile food service operation'license; (2) Proof of general liability insurance coverage, including without limitation, bodily injury and property damage, in coverage amounts of at least $1,000,000.00 per occurrence, and naming the City as an additional insured, in a form that provides that the insurance coverage shall not be canceled or reduced by the insurance carrier without 30 days' prior written notice to the City; and (3) Written permission from the property owner to operate on private property.