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EXHIBIT A ARTICLE X. -FOOD AND ICE CREAM TRUCKS Sec. 32-275. -Purpose. The purpose of this article is to provide for regulations relating to the operation of food and ice cream trucks within City of Portsmouth public roadways in order to promote a vibrant sense of place and local entrepreneurship. In recognition thereof, reasonable regulation of street activity is necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and the interest of the city in the primary use of public streets by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Sec. 32-276. -Definitions The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: Designated parking location means a specific parking space chosen by the city manager or the city manager's designee, in consultation with the city engineer and the planning director, to be reserved for use by a food truck. Downtown area means the area of the city located east of Effingham Street, north of Interstate 264, south of Queen Street, and west of the Elizabeth River's Southern Branch. Food truck means a food establishment that is located in or upon aself-propelled vehicle licensed by the state department of motor vehicles, containing a mobile kitchen, where food and non-alcoholic beverages are stored, prepared, and served in individual portions to walk-up customers. Food truck policies and procedures manual means a manual containing additional regulations and guidelines established by the city manager governing food trucks and/or food truck vending. Food truck program means a set of regulations, policies, and procedures approved by the city manager and designed to provide a working regulatory environment within which food trucks shall operate. Ice cream truck means a food establishment that is located in or upon aself- propelled vehicle licensed by the state department of motor vehicles that sells only ice cream, pre-packaged food, and non-alcoholic beverages, and that does not stop in a fixed location to wait for customers if no customers are present. -Point of sale means the area, such as a window, where the vendor and the customer interact through ordering and purchasing food and non-alcoholic beverages.