Titusville, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- State license
- Required on board under F.S. § 509.102
- Distance rule
- 500 ft from a competing permanent business
- Operating days
- Max 5 days per week
- Hours
- Sunup to sundown, unless a special event
- Sign limit
- 32 sq ft per street frontage
- Enacted
- Ordinance No. 28-2023
Summary
A Titusville food truck needs a current state license under F.S. § 509.102 plus a zoning-authorized location under Code of Ordinances § 11-690, which limits where the truck can park, how close it can sit to a competing business, and how many hours a week it can operate.
Mobile food dispensing vehicles shall maintain a current state license as required under FS § 509.102. Mobile food dispensing vehicles shall meet the requirements of F.S. § 509.102 and the Florida Fire Prevention Code and are subject to inspection at any time. ... (h)Distance requirements. No mobile food dispensing vehicle shall locate within five hundred (500) feet, as measured from the property line, of any lawful permanent business which sells the same goods during the hours of operation of said business. ... (j)Hours of operation. The hours and days of operation shall be the choice of the vendor, but cannot exceed five (5) days per week. Hours of operation shall be from sunup to sundown only, unless the operation is part of an approved special event permit.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 54 Update 1 | Land Development Regulations: Supplement 19 Update 1 | Technical Manuals: Supplement 10 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Section 11-690, added by Ordinance No. 102; the section says outright it is not meant to regulate the licensing, registration, permitting, or fees the state already controls. 102 on board at all times it is operating in the city, available for inspection by the city's law or code enforcement officers, and must meet the Florida Fire Prevention Code. On the local side, Section 11-690(g) confines trucks to the shoreline mixed use, community commercial, regional commercial, planned industrial park, and light industrial services and warehousing zoning districts, plus the Downtown Mixed Use district's Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, and Civic Waterfront subdistricts when the truck is part of an approved special event, and the public zoning district within the Space Coast Regional Airport's operations waiver zone if the airport authority's chief executive officer confirms no adverse impact to flight operations.
Section 11-690(h) bars a truck from locating within five hundred feet of any lawful permanent business selling the same goods during that business's operating hours, and Section 11-690(j) leaves the days and hours of operation to the vendor's choice, but caps it at five days a week and sunup to sundown only, unless the truck is operating as part of an approved special event permit, in which case it may keep that event's hours instead. Trucks must post no more than one thirty-two-square-foot sign per street frontage, remove all signs and displays daily, and share cleanup duties equally with the property owner.
Violations & Fines
Operating a mobile food dispensing vehicle outside its authorized zoning district, within five hundred feet of a competing permanent business, or beyond the five-day, sunup-to-sundown limit in Section 11-690(j) is enforced by the fire marshal or code enforcement supervisor under Section 11-692, and falls back on the code's general penalty in Section 1-15: up to a $500.00 fine, sixty days in jail, or both, per day of violation.
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Sources & Official References
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