Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors in Miami-Dade County, FL (2026)

3 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 7 cities in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Verified from official government sources

Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Miami-Dade County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Food Truck Permits

Miami-Dade County requires every mobile food unit to hold a health department permit before operating, per Code § 14B-13: issued only after inspection, must be displayed on the unit, and applies countywide.

Mobile Food Unit Permits in Miami-Dade County

Some Restrictions

Miami-Dade County Code § 14B-13

No person, firm or corporation shall operate a public food service establishment within Dade County, Florida, without first obtaining and maintaining a valid permit or written approval from the Dade County Department of Public Health or State Division of Health. Such permits shall be conspicuously displayed and shall be issued only after inspection of the premises of such public food service es...

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Vending Zones

Unincorporated Miami-Dade County confines mobile food, sales, and banking operations to BU, IU, urban center, urban area, and GU zoning districts, plus limited residential and AU-district uses, each requiring a Certificate of Use.

Miami-Dade Mobile Vending Zoning Districts

Some Restrictions

Miami-Dade County Code § 33-14.1

Mobile operations are permissible only in the following zoning districts:(a)BU, IU, urban center, urban area, and GU (where trended for industrial or business use);...(c)In the AU District as provided in Section 33-279.(2)Mobile operations may only be conducted from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on weekdays and from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on weekends...(5)Mobile operations shall not be located on th...

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Sidewalk & Mobile Vending

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, mobile food operations cannot set up on a public sidewalk or right-of-way at all: they must vend from approved private property under a County Certificate of Use.

Miami-Dade UMSA Bars Sidewalk Food Vending

Heavy Restrictions

Miami-Dade County Code § 33-14.1

(1)Mobile operations are permissible only in the following zoning districts:(a)BU, IU, urban center, urban area, and GU (where trended for industrial or business use);(b)residential zoning districts on properties having a current certificate of use as a museum, hospital, school, or religious facility... (5)Mobile operations shall not be located on the public right-of-way.

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