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

010 confirm includes a 'mobile food truck' (a motorized vehicle selling frozen or prepackaged food), without first securing a license from the department of health, welfare and housing, health division. 130 sets the fee schedule and terms: mobile retail food establishments are licensed by type, with each mobile food truck costing $175 annually, distinct from a non-motorized push-cart at $125 or a mobile step van (which has cooking equipment) at $200. All retail food licenses, including mobile ones, expire on June 30 of each year regardless of issue date, and an operator who files a renewal application after June 30 owes a $25 late fee on top of the base fee.

Before any license issues, the area or vehicle to be licensed must pass inspection by a health inspector; if the initial inspection is unsatisfactory, the operator must schedule and pass a re-inspection, paying $50 for a first re-inspection, $100 for a second, and $150 for each one after that. Every license must be posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed vehicle and cannot be transferred to another owner or vehicle. 140 for violations of the chapter or the Retail Food Establishment Code of New Jersey (1965), but only after written notice and a hearing before the health division, at which the operator may answer the charges before any suspension, cancellation or revocation takes effect.