Rhode Island General Laws Title 5. Businesses and Professions § 5-11.1-3. Definitions

(1) “ Department” means the department of business regulation.

(2) “ Director” means the director of the department of business regulation.

(3) “ Event permit” means a permit that a city or town issues to the organizer of a public mobile food establishment event located on public property.

(4) “ Fire safety code” shall have the meaning set forth in chapter 28.1 of title 23 and shall include any regulations promulgated thereunder.

(5) “ Mobile food establishment” means a food service operation that is operated from a movable motor-driven or propelled vehicle, portable structure, or watercraft that can change location. Mobile food establishments specifically includes, but is not limited to, food trucks, food carts, ice-cream trucks/carts, and lemonade trucks/carts.

(6) “ Mobile food establishment event” means an event where an individual has ordered or commissioned the operation of one or more mobile food establishments at a private or public gathering.

(7) “ Mobile food establishment operator” or “ operator” means a person or corporate entity who or that owns, manages, or controls, or who or that has the duty to manage or control, the operation of a mobile food establishment.

(8) “ Mobile food establishment vendor” or “ vendor” means a person who prepares, sells, cooks, or serves food or beverages from a mobile food establishment.

(9) “ Municipal mobile food establishment permit” means a permit issued by a city or town to a mobile food establishment operator that possesses a current state mobile food establishment registration.

(10) “ Registrant” means the holder of a “state mobile food establishment registration.”

(11) “ RIDOH” means the Rhode Island department of health.

(12) “ State mobile food establishment registration” or “ registration” means a registration issued by the department which authorizes a mobile food establishment to operate in the state.

(13) “ Temporary mass gathering”: