Bayonne, NJ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Bayonne City Code § 21-33.1 defines a peddler broadly to include any person, resident or not, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle or any other conveyance from place to place or street to street, carrying and selling meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, food, ice cream, fruit ices, beverages, garden farm products or provisions; the definition folds in hawker, huckster and vendor, so it reaches mobile food trucks and carts alike. Section 21-33.2 makes it unlawful to engage in the business of peddler within the City without first obtaining a license, and § 21-33.3 sets the license fee at $350 per year.

Section 21-33.4 puts enforcement directly in the hands of patrol officers: any Police Officer who sees an unfamiliar peddler must demand production of the license and act against anyone found violating the chapter. Narrow exceptions exist under § 21-33.5 for house-to-house delivery of milk, eggs, bread and newspapers, for census takers and government surveys, and for veteran or volunteer firefighters holding a state license under N.J.S.A. 45:24-9, who are exempt from the license itself but must still follow every other requirement of the chapter. A licensed vendor's equipment, whether a truck or pushcart, must also pass the sanitary inspection standard described separately in § 21-33.6, and the vendor's location and hours are further limited by the zoning and distance rules of § 21-33.7.