Chandler, AZ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Section 21-3 of the City Code doesn't set its own separate license fee schedule; instead it makes City operation conditional on 'maintaining in effect a license in compliance with' two outside authorities: Arizona Revised Statutes Title 36, Chapter 15 (Mobile Food Vendors and Mobile Food Units) and Maricopa County Environmental Health Code Chapter 8, Section 3. In practice this means a Chandler-based mobile food operator holds a county health permit and complies with the state licensing framework before the City recognizes the unit as lawfully operating.

Beyond that base license, Section 21-4 layers on possession requirements specific to operating on City-owned public property: a certificate of insurance naming the City of Chandler as additional insured, with at least one million dollars combined single limit per occurrence and a general aggregate of twice that per-occurrence limit, plus evidence of a fire inspection passed within the preceding twelve months by Chandler or another Arizona city, town, or fire district. Section 21-5 further requires the operator to carry written authorization from the property owner to use the current location, or, for a special event or temporary sales and promotional event, to be on the approved vendor list for that event's permit, and to display the business name clearly on the unit. All of these authorization documents must be kept inside the unit and shown to an authorized City representative on request.