Putnam County, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Land Development Code § 45-136 defines a mobile food dispensing vehicle as any self-propelled or otherwise movable vehicle that is a public food service establishment and carries self-contained utilities such as gas, water, electricity or liquid waste disposal. Unlike most temporary uses catalogued in Table 2.05A of division 5 (carnivals, outdoor promotional sales, yard sales and the like), mobile food vehicles are not listed as needing a county temporary use permit; instead, § 45-136 makes the vehicle an allowed use by right in any zoning district in the unincorporated county, conditioned only on obtaining a license from the division of hotels and restaurants within the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation, issued under Florida Statutes chapter 509.

That state license, rather than a Putnam County land-use permit, is what a mobile food vendor must hold and be able to produce. The provision sits in division 5, temporary uses, of the Land Development Code, alongside other short-term commercial activities such as temporary sales of produce and special event sales, but its by-right, any-zoning-district language sets it apart from those permit-triggered categories.