Chesterfield County, VA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

00 per-vendor or per-vehicle tax specifically for peddlers selling food, drinks, or other goods that they didn't grow, produce or harvest themselves, the category that covers most mobile food vending. That lower tax comes with a movement condition: the vendor cannot let the vehicle sit in one location any longer than necessary to finish a sale or a continuous run of sales, and never more than 30 minutes. Subsection (h) layers on a separate, flat daily limit: a peddler cannot park, stand, stop or leave a vehicle in any one place for vending purposes for more than 8 hours in a single day, regardless of how many short stops are made.

Section 6-48(c) exempts peddlers selling home-grown or home-produced perishables like meats, milk, eggs, vegetables and fruit, and subsection (e) exempts peddlers acting solely for charitable purposes without pay. Peddler licenses are not transferable and are not prorated for partial years under subsection (g), so the full tax is due once assessed. If a mobile vendor instead sells at a vendor event where the promoter has purchased a vendor-event license under Section 6-50, the peddler license tax does not separately apply to that vendor for that event location, per Section 6-47(k).