Troy, NY Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)

Troy's code has no stand-alone mobile food chapter in the staged text. Food carts and trucks are priced inside Chapter 224, Article I, the hawking, vending, soliciting and peddling ordinance. Section 224-2 pulls vehicles in by definition: the covered words include a person who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers goods for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car or other vehicle or conveyance, and the listed goods include meats, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruits and provisions.

The fee schedule in § 224-9(B) sets two lines. A foot peddler pays $75 per year. Motor vehicle, food carts or truck peddlers pay $500 per year when issued for a maximum of one-year duration. Under § 224-9(C), a license for one-half year or any length of time less than one-half duration costs one-half the amount, and it becomes null and void when the stated time ends. A $20 fee at filing defrays the cost of the investigation (§ 224-9(A)).

A vehicle operator supplies a description of the vehicle with its license number or other identification on the application (§ 224-8(F)), and the license states the description of any vehicle used (§ 224-11). The licensee must keep the license in the vehicle at all times while it is in force and show it on request to authorized officers (§ 224-13). Operating rules apply on the street: no sound devices or loudspeakers to attract customers (§ 224-3), no exclusive or stationary location in the public streets and no work in congested areas (§ 224-4), and no vending within 200 feet of a school, firehouse or public building (§ 224-12). Under § 251-14, no person may stand in the vehicular part of a City street to solicit from or sell to an occupant of a vehicle.