Yuma, AZ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Food Truck Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Property-owner permission
- written, filed annually with City
- County permit required
- Yuma County Health Department mobile food unit permit
- Health permit revoked
- city business license suspended
- Operating hours
- not midnight to 5:00 a.m.
- Multiple vendors per site
- needs Hearing Officer conditional use permit
- Zoning violation penalty
- up to $1,000 fine, 10 days jail
Summary
Operating a food truck on private property in Yuma requires the property owner's written permission on file with the City, an annually renewed business license, and a mobile food unit permit from the Yuma County Health Department. Losing the county health permit suspends the city business license immediately, and vending is barred between midnight and 5 a.m.
(f) Mobile food vendors shall obtain and maintain written permission from the property owner(s) to use the property on which the food vending unit is located. A copy of the written permission shall be provided to the City of Yuma on an annual basis in order to renew the business license, and shall be kept visible to the public, along with the current business license, in the food vending unit. (g) Mobile food vendors shall obtain and maintain a mobile food unit permit from the Yuma County Health Department. A copy of this permit shall be provided to the City of Yuma on an annual basis in order to renew the business license. Upon revocation of the Yuma County Health Department permit, the City of Yuma business license will be suspended, whether temporarily or permanently. ... (a) Mobile food vendors shall not operate between the hours of midnight and 5:00 a.m.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-74: Current through May 20, 2026).
Full Breakdown
13(A)(1)(f) requires a mobile food vendor to get and keep written permission from the property owner to use the vending site, with a copy filed with the City of Yuma each year to renew the business license and kept visible in the food vending unit alongside the license itself. Subsection (g) separately requires the vendor to obtain and keep a mobile food unit permit from the Yuma County Health Department, also renewed annually with the City; if the county permit is revoked, the city business license is suspended, whether temporarily or permanently, tying the local license directly to county health compliance.
, and every vending unit and its accessory structures must be removed from the site by midnight during non-operating hours. A conditional use permit from the Hearing Officer is required if more than one vendor or unit wants to share a single mobile vending site under subsection (h).
Violations & Fines
Vending without the required property-owner permission or a valid county health permit, or without the license paperwork visible on-site, is enforced through business license suspension under §154-15.13(A)(1)(g) and can also be prosecuted as a zoning violation under §154-999, a class 1 misdemeanor carrying up to a $1,000 fine and ten days' imprisonment.
Frequently Asked Questions
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