Deerfield Beach, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Sec. 18-6 flatly prohibits any person, natural or corporate, from conducting business from within the public rights-of-way anywhere in the city, and it specifically calls out the sale of food of any kind, goods, wares or merchandise from a vehicle, motorized or not and regardless of wheel count, or on foot. That language reaches sidewalk food vendors, pushcarts and mobile food trucks that try to sell directly from a street, sidewalk or road shoulder rather than from private property. The section, adopted by Ord. No.

1994/008 in March 1994, sits in Chapter 18 (Businesses) alongside other retail-conduct rules like the temporary holiday sales permit process in Sec. 18-4 and the shopping-cart retention rule in Sec. 18-7, but it is written as a stand-alone prohibition with its own enforcement mechanism rather than a permit system: there is no path in this section for a vendor to apply for permission to sell from the right-of-way. A food truck or cart operating on private property, such as a parking lot with the property owner's consent, falls outside Sec. "