Operating a food truck across Essex County means two approvals: a mobile food permit from each town's Board of Health under the state food code, and a hawker and peddler license from the Commonwealth's Division of Standards to vend from a vehicle.
A food truck needs a Board of Health mobile food establishment permit in every town it serves — Salem, Gloucester, and Lawrence each issue their own under 105 CMR 590, and there is no single county permit. The truck also carries a state hawker and peddler license, since MGL c.101 §13 defines a peddler as one who sells goods from a vehicle going place to place. Commissary, fire inspection, and propane sign-offs are standard. Local zoning and licensing set where and when trucks park and sell.
Vending without a Board of Health permit or state hawker license lets inspectors shut the truck down on the spot, seize food, and fine the operator. Repeat operation risks license denial.
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