Hamburg Village, NY Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Section 175-10 of the Village of Hamburg Code lists the restrictions on a licensed solicitor or peddler. It sits in Chapter 175, the Soliciting and Peddling Law, enacted by the Board of Trustees. Under § 175-3, peddling includes selling goods for immediate delivery from house to house, from place of business to place of business, or in any public street or public place within the Village of Hamburg, so food sold on a street or public place falls under this chapter and needs the license required by § 175-4 from the Village Clerk.

The restrictions cover how the vendor sells and where the vendor stands. A licensed peddler cannot willfully misstate the quantity or quality of any article offered, cannot offer any article of an unwholesome or defective nature, and cannot call attention to goods by blowing a horn, playing repetitive music or sounds, ringing a bell other than a house doorbell, shouting or crying, or any loud or unusual noise. A peddler cannot frequent any street in an exclusive nature so as to cause a private or public nuisance.

Food handling has its own lines. The vehicle or receptacles used in the licensed business have to be kept in a sound, clean and sanitary condition, and edible articles offered for sale have to be kept well protected from dirt, dust and insects.

The location rules are the practical limits. A peddler cannot stand, or let the vehicle stand, in one place in any public place or street for more than 10 minutes, or in front of any premises for any time if the owner or lessee of the property objects. Confectionery and ice cream cannot be sold within 250 feet of any school between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on school days.

Section 175-10.1 adds an hours limit: no person engaged in merchandising, licensed or unlicensed, can enter private property, go from house to house or place of business to place of business, or otherwise disturb persons in their residences or businesses on Saturday, Sunday or between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. The license itself runs 60 days, is nontransferable and specifies the location where the business is conducted.

Truck-based food sales fall under a separate chapter. Chapter 161, Mobile Food Vending, requires a permit from the Village Clerk for any mobile food vehicle, and that permit expires on April 1 of every year. That chapter bars vending before 7:00 a.m. or after 11:00 p.m., and in Residential 1, 2 and 3 Zoning Districts before 9:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m.