Item 28 - Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Article II of Chapter 16 of the SAMC

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Ordinance No. NS-XXX Page 7 of 42 Food distributor shall mean a company that distributes food to entities including, but not limited to, supermarkets and grocery stores, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(22). Food facility shall mean an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption at the retail level, pursuant to Section 113789 of the Health and Safety Code. Food recovery shall mean actions to collect and distribute food for human consumption which otherwise would be disposed, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(24). Food recovery organization shall mean an entity that primarily engages in the collection or receipt of edible food from commercial edible food generators and distributes that edible food to the public for food recovery either directly or through other entities, including, but not limited to: a food bank as defined in Section 113783 of the Health and Safety Code; a nonprofit charitable organization as defined in Section 113841 of the Health and Safety code; and nonprofit charitable temporary food facility as defined in Section 113842 of the Health and Safety Code. A food recovery organization is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this article and implementation of Title 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(7). If the definition in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(25) for food recovery organization differs from this definition, the definition in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(25) shall apply to this article. Food recovery service shall mean a person or entity that collects and transports edible food from a commercial edible food generator to a food recovery organization or other entities for food recovery, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(26). A food recovery service is not a commercial edible food generator for the purposes of this article and implementation of Title 14 CCR, Division 7, Chapter 12 pursuant to 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(7). Food scraps shall mean all food such as, but not limited to, fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta, bread, cheese, and eggshells. Food scraps excludes fats, oils, and grease when such materials are source separated from other food scraps. Food service provider shall mean an entity primarily engaged in providing food services to institutional, governmental, commercial, or industrial locations of others based on contractual arrangements with these types of organizations, or as otherwise defined in 14 CCR Section 18982(a)(27). Food-soiled paper shall mean compostable paper material that has come in contact with food or liquid, such as, but not limited to, compostable paper plates, paper coffee cups, napkins, pizza boxes, and milk cartons.