Marietta, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- License required
- before any sale, except city events
- Liability insurance
- $1,000,000.00, city as additional insured
- Sales cutoff, residential zones
- 9:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
- Sales cutoff, other zones
- 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
- Application fee
- $100.00 nonrefundable processing fee
Summary
Marietta requires a city license before selling food from any mobile retail food establishment or pushcart, bars operating on the public right-of-way, requires a $1,000,000.00 liability policy naming the city as additional insured, and cuts off sales at 9:00 p.m. in residential zones and 10:00 p.m. elsewhere.
8-12-27-020 - License required. A.It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, food of any type from a commissary, mobile retail food establishment, pushcart or temporary food establishment without a license first having been granted under this section, except for city sponsored events. ... C.The mobile retail food establishment shall maintain a $1,000,000.00 liability policy. ... G.No sale or offer for sale shall be made by any licensee between 9:00 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. within areas residentially zoned and between 10:00 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. in all other zoning classes.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 56).
Full Breakdown
Article 8-12-27 makes it unlawful under § 8-12-27-020 to sell or offer food from a commissary, mobile retail food establishment, pushcart or temporary food establishment without a license, except at city-sponsored events; the application goes to the Business License Department and is reviewed under the same § 8-4-080 process used for other occupation tax certificates. in all other zoning classes. Vehicles must carry a backup alarm distinguishable from ambient noise and two rear-view mirrors under § 8-12-27-030(I), and the establishment may sell only food and nonalcoholic beverages.
00 processing fee under § 8-12-27-070, in addition to the occupation tax itself, and § 8-12-27-040 requires an executed indemnity agreement releasing the city from liability as part of the permitting process.
Violations & Fines
Selling food from an unlicensed mobile establishment violates § 8-12-27-020 and is enforced through the city's general occupation tax certificate penalty framework. The city may revoke or suspend a food truck license under § 8-12-27-060 using the same suspension and revocation procedure set out at § 8-4-405, with appeals from either a denial or a revocation following the § 8-4-080 appeal path; operating past the 9:00 p.m./10:00 p.m. cutoff, on the public right-of-way, or without the $1,000,000.00 liability policy on file are each independent violations of § 8-12-27-030.
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