Fayette County, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Fayette County Code § 8-62(b), in the Canvassers and Solicitors article, prohibits locating or conducting a business from a mobile vehicle on the county's public sidewalks, streets, alleys, walkways, parks, parking lots, rights-of-way or other public lands, and extends the same ban to state rights-of-way within the county's limits. The subsection carves out only three uses: mobile ice cream vendors, mobile food vendors that serve building and construction sites, and vendors operating at special events. Even the exempt mobile ice cream vendors are not unrestricted: § 8-62(b) requires them to hold a canvasser and solicitor's permit under this article and confines their operation to streets posted 25 miles per hour or slower, so a truck cannot work a state route or a collector street with a higher limit.

A separate cross-reference in the same section, § 8-62(c), folds in the county zoning ordinance's rules on outside displays, meaning a vendor also has to clear Chapter 110's display standards, and § 8-62(d) applies the county's stormwater and illicit-discharge rules to any solicitor or peddler, including a mobile food operation that washes equipment or dumps grease outdoors. Because general sidewalk food vending is not one of the three listed exceptions, a food truck that simply parks and serves walk-up customers from a public sidewalk or street in the unincorporated county, outside a permitted special event or a construction-site contract, falls outside the ordinance's carve-outs and is prohibited.