Fayette County, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

The code doesn't build a standalone food-truck permit process the way it does for canvassers. Instead, mobile food vending is folded into two overlapping bans. Section 8-62(b), inside the canvassers-and-solicitors article, bars locating or conducting a business from a mobile vehicle on public sidewalks, streets, alleys, walkways, parks, parking lots, rights-of-way or other public land, or on state rights-of-way within the county; mobile ice cream vendors, mobile food vendors serving building or construction sites, and vendors at special events are excepted. Mobile ice cream vendors specifically must still hold a canvasser and solicitor's permit under the same article and can only operate on streets posted at 25 miles per hour or slower.

Section 110-96, in the zoning chapter, separately prohibits "roadside sales," meaning selling goods or services from a temporary location along a public right-of-way outside an approved permanent structure, with the identical three-category exemption. Read together, a food truck confined to serving a construction or building site, working an approved special event, or operating entirely on private property with the owner's permission isn't swept into either ban, but a truck that wants to park and sell to the walking public on a county street, sidewalk or parking lot has no such exemption. Any vendor covered by the article also remains subject to the county's separate outside-display zoning rules and stormwater and illicit-discharge requirements under § 8-62(c)-(d).