Maui County, HI Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

072 regulates "commercial agricultural structures," a term that includes agricultural products stands, farmer's markets, agricultural retail structures, and agricultural food establishments, the last of which the code defines to expressly cover a mobile food truck or trailer operating on a farm by a producer where the truck is located. Subsection E lays out the rules specific to these establishments: any agricultural food establishment over 1,000 square feet in total floor area needs a county special use permit, and all food must be prepared under State Department of Health rules regardless of size.

Geography then adds two separate permit triggers that apply on top of the size threshold. Any mobile food truck or trailer operating within the Molokai community plan area needs a special use permit no matter its size, reflecting the island's more restrictive commercial agricultural structure rules found elsewhere in the chapter. In the Hana community plan area, mobile food trucks and trailers can operate on registration alone until the department has registered twenty-five of them; after that threshold is reached, any additional truck or trailer in the Hana community plan area needs a special use permit as well.

Every operator, regardless of size or location, must still separately register the structure with the department of planning under subsection F, supplying the producer's contact information, the tax map key number, proof of ownership or lease, and the type of structure, with each commercial agricultural structure requiring its own separate registration.