Davie, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)
Key Facts
- Right-of-way/sidewalk vending
- prohibited outright
- Operating hours
- 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Residential buffer
- 250 feet minimum
- K-12 school buffer
- 1,200 feet minimum
Summary
Davie flatly prohibits mobile food dispensing vehicles from conducting business within any public or private right-of-way, including sidewalks, and confines operating hours to 7 a.m.-9 p.m.
b.Restrictions on operations. All mobile food dispensing vehicles:1.Shall display all required state license and registration tags and comply with all state licensing requirements.2.Shall conduct business only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.3.Shall provide sufficient trash receptacles for patrons and properly collect and dispose of any trash resulting from the mobile food vendor operation.4.Shall not conduct business within any public or private right-of-way.5.Shall not conduct business in any manner that disrupts the proper flow of vehicular or pedestrian access.6.Shall not sell, provide or distribute alcoholic beverages.7.Shall not conduct retail sales or other business activity unrelated to the provision of food and non-alcoholic beverages.8.Shall not operate closer than two hundred fifty (250) feet of the nearest property zoned or used exclusively for residential purposes.9.Shall not operate within one thousand two hundred (1,200) feet of the nearest property line of any K-12 school.10.Shall not operate on land without the written authorization of the landowner or legal tenant of the land. Failure of a mobile food vendor to produce written authorization of the landowner or legal tenant when requested by town police or code compliance inspectors shall constitute a violation of this paragraph.11.Shall not remain on the site of operation between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 75).
Full Breakdown
Davie Code § 12-33(MM)(4)b bars all mobile food dispensing vehicles from conducting business within any public or private right-of-way, sidewalks and streets included, and from operating in any way that disrupts vehicular or pedestrian flow. Operations are further capped to 7:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., vehicles may not sit at the site after 10:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m., and trucks must stay at least 250 feet from residential property and 1,200 feet from any K-12 school.
Violations & Fines
Vending in a right-of-way, or operating outside the permitted hours or distance buffers, is enforced by town police and code compliance officers and is punishable under the town's code enforcement process (Chapter 6).
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