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Block: Shall mean that property abutting one side of a street and lying between the two nearest intersecting streets, or nearest intersecting street and railroad right-of-way, unsubdivided acreage, or waterway.

Child: Shall mean an individual who has not attained the age of fourteen years.

Downtown Vending District: That area of the City of Phoenix bounded on the north by the northern portion of Fillmore Street on the east by the eastern portion of Seventh Street, on the south by the southern portion of Jackson Street and on the west by the western portion of Seventh Avenue.

Food: Shall mean any article sold for human consumption, the sale of which is not prohibited by law.

Person: Shall mean a corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization; or any other group acting as a unit, as well as an individual.

Residential area: Shall mean any street where over fifty percent of the front footage of either side of the block is devoted to single-family and multiple-family dwellings, dormitories, or mobile homes.

Sidewalk: Shall mean that portion of a public right-of-way between the curbline of a street and the adjacent property line, or, if there is no curbline, then "sidewalk" shall mean that portion of a public right-of-way between the lateral boundary line of the pavement of a street and the adjacent property line, or, if there is no pavement, then "sidewalk" shall mean that portion of public right-of-way between the lateral boundary line of the demarcated unsurfaced street and the adjacent property line.

Sidewalk vending: Shall mean peddling, vending, selling, displaying, or offering for sale any item of tangible personal property or other thing of value upon a sidewalk of the City of Phoenix.

Street: Shall mean any public road, highway, avenue, boulevard, alley and lane within the City.

Street Vending: Shall mean Street Vending—Food and Street Vending—Non-Food.

Street Vending—Food: Shall mean peddling, vending, selling, displaying, or offering for sale any food product or toy between the curblines or, if none, then that portion of the right-of-way between the lateral boundary lines of the demarcated unsurfaced street.

Street Vending—Non-Food: Shall mean peddling, vending, selling, displaying, or offering for sale any item of tangible personal property or other thing of value, other than a food product or a toy, that occurs between the curblines, or, if none, then that portion of the right-of-way between the lateral boundary lines of the demarcated unsurfaced street.

Street vendor: Shall mean any person engaged in street vending.

Toys: Shall mean those items designed by the manufacturer to be played with by a child which do not consist of or contain an explosive charge or a tube or wick filled with a combustible material and, when used as intended, do not emit smoke or a foul or offensive odor (Ord. No. G-1600, § 4; Ord. No. G-1796, § 1; Ord. No. G-3683, § 45; Ord. No. G-3836, §§ 2, 3; Ord. No. G-3944, § 1, 1996; Ord. No. G-3958, § 1, 1996; Ord. No. G-4753, § 1, 2005)

Cross reference—Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.