It is unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, or operate any vehicle or conduct any business for the purpose of causing the sale of or offering for sale, any goods or merchandise from any vehicle parked, stopped, or standing upon any public street, alley, parkway, sidewalk, or other public property in the city except in accordance with all applicable provisions of this code and in compliance with each of the following requirements:
A. Such vending shall be only by means of a vehicle duly registered and licensed by the state of California with an unladen weight of less than five thousand pounds.
B. Such vending shall be limited to only public streets, where the posted speed limit is less than thirty-five miles per hour, and shall not be permitted upon any alley, parkway, sidewalk or other public property.
C. Each operator of such vehicle shall possess and at all times display in conspicuous view upon each such vehicle a city of Lawndale business license issued pursuant to Title 5 of this code.
D. Each operator of such vehicle shall possess and at all times display in conspicuous view upon such vehicle an unexpired and unrevoked operator's permit issued pursuant to Section 10.30.050 of this chapter.
E. It is unlawful for any vendor to sell or offer for sale any goods or merchandise from any vehicle pursuant to this section unless such person shall possess and at all times while conducting such vending maintain upon his or her person an unexpired and unrevoked vendor's permit issued pursuant to Section 10.30.060 of this chapter.
F. It is unlawful for any operator to permit or allow any vendor under such operator's control, direction, charge, or employ to vend any goods or merchandise from any vehicle pursuant to this section unless such vendor possesses an unexpired and unrevoked vendor's permit issued pursuant to Section 10.30.060 of this chapter.
G. Each operator causing the sale of or offering for sale any produce or other food item for which a food handling permit or other health permit is required by law shall possess and at all times display such required permit(s) in conspicuous view upon such vehicle.
H. No vending from such vehicle shall be permitted within sixty feet of any intersection of two or more public streets nor within five hundred feet of any public or private elementary, junior high, or high school.
I. No vending from such vehicle shall be permitted for a period of time in excess of ten minutes in any one location and said vehicle must be moved a distance of not less than one hundred feet between consecutive stops at which vending occurs.
J. No minor under the age of sixteen shall ride in or upon a vehicle which such vehicle is engaged in or about to be engaged in vending.
K. No vehicle shall be parked, stopped or left standing in any manner which blocks or impedes vehicular access to any driveway or restricts the free movement of other vehicles upon the public street.
L. Each vehicle shall be equipped with a trash receptacle of a size adequate to accommodate all trash and refuse generated by such vending.
M. Each vendor shall pick up and deposit in the trash receptacle on the vehicle any paper, cups, wrapper, litter, or other refuse of any kind which were a part of the goods or merchandise supplied from the vehicle and which have been left or abandoned within twenty-five feet of such vehicle on any public property other than in a trash receptacle provided for such purposes. No vendor or operator shall dispose of any trash or refuse in any such public or private trash receptacle other than a trash receptacle owned, operated, or otherwise provided by and under the control of such vendor or operator.
N. No vending shall be permitted except after the vehicle has been brought to a complete stop and parked adjacent to the curb in a lawful manner.
O. Any vehicle from which vending occurs pursuant to this section shall have the name, address, and telephone number of the holder of the operator's permit permanently affixed on both the left and right sides of the vehicle. Such information shall be in letters not less than four inches in height and shall be in contrast to the color of the background upon which the letters are placed.
P. Except for vending from a vehicle on private property to provide meals for those living or working on such private property, no vending shall be permitted by any operator or conducted by any vendor except between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m. Monday through Friday of each week.
Q. No amplified sound making devices shall be used to draw attention to, or announce the presence of, such vehicle upon any public street immediately contiguous to any residentially zoned property within the city. Nonamplified sound making devices shall be permitted for such purposes provided (1) such sounds shall not be made while the vehicle is stopped, parking, or otherwise in a stationary position; and (2) such sounds shall not be audible to a person with normal hearing for a distance of more than two hundred feet.
R. Any operator or vendor using scales or any other weighing or measuring devices shall have all such scales and devices inspected and sealed by the weights and measures division of Los Angeles County.
S. All foods, beverages, utensils and equipment offered for sale or utilized on vending vehicles shall at all times be protected from contamination and pollution by dust, dirt, flies, vermin, rodents, animals, unnecessary handling, droplet infection, overhead leakage, insecticides, rodenticide, cleaning compounds, and other poisonous or deleterious substances, and all other forms of contamination. (Ord. 797-95 § 1 (part))