Sec. 22-82Definitions
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Plain English: what this chapter covers
This is the chapter for anyone running a business in town: the yearly occupation tax (the city's business license), plus special rules for pawn shops, phone companies, arcades and coin-operated machines, fireworks stands, food trucks, and permits for special events on city property like festivals, parades and big cookouts in the park. Several parts are fairly recent (2015-2025), but some, like the pawnshop rules, are older and still describe paper record books.
(a) Commissary shall mean an approved catering establishment, restaurant, or other approved place in which food, containers or supplies are kept, handled, prepared, packaged or stored.
(b) Food truck vendor shall mean a retail food establishment that reports to and operates from a commissary and is readily moveable, is a motorized wheeled vehicle, or a towed wheeled vehicle designed and equipped to serve food.
(c) Pushcart shall man a non-self-propelled vehicle limited to serving commissary prepared or prepackaged food and non-potentially hazardous food, unless the equipment is commercially designed to and approved to handle food preparation and service. Pushcarts shall not be required to comply with mobile vehicular safety requirements.
(d) Temporary food establishment shall mean a retail food establishment, other than a licensed food truck vendor or truck vendor or pushcart, that is not intended to be permanent and that operates at a fixed location for a period of time of not more than 14 consecutive days in conjunction with a single event or celebration.
(e) Ice cream truck shall mean a motor vehicle in which ice cream, popsicles, ice sherbets, or other frozen desserts of any kind are carried for the purpose of retail sale on the streets of the city.
History: (Ord. No. 19-04, § 1, 11-7-2019)
This is a plain-English guide, not legal advice. The official code is on Municode and at City Hall. Our copy is from April 30, 2026.
Online: https://jamesburgessleads.com/city-code/PTIICOOR_CH22BU_ARTVIIMOFOVE_S22-82DE
Official version: https://library.municode.com/GA/Ashburn/codes/Code_of_Ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH22BU_ARTVIIMOFOVE_S22-82DE
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