§ 18.087. Definitions.

In this division:

Food establishment means an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, or otherwise provides food for human consumption, such as a food service establishment, retail food store, satellite or catered feeding location, catering operation (if the operation provides food directly to a consumer or to a conveyance used to transport people), market, remote catered operation, conveyance used to transport people, institution, or food bank, that relinquishes possession of food to a consumer directly, or indirectly through a delivery service such as home delivery of grocery orders or restaurant takeout orders, or delivery service that is provided by a common carrier.

Food vending machine means a vending machine that is designed to contain, or contains, potentially hazardous food.

Potentially hazardous food means a food that is natural or synthetic and that requires temperature control because it is in a form capable of supporting the rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms, the growth and toxin production of Clostridium botulinum, or in raw shell eggs, the growth of Salmonella enteritidis. A further elaboration of foods that are included and excluded from this term is contained in the state rules.

Regulatory authority means the city environmental health department.

State rules mean the state rules found at 25 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 229, Subchapter K. These rules are also known as the Texas Food Establishment Rules. Terms used in this division that are defined in the state rules will have those same definitions when used in this division.

(Ord. No. 2003-46, § 1, 7-23-03)