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

Hialeah regulates sidewalk sales through Chapter 18, Article VI's peddler and itinerant vendor division, a separate track from the food-truck ordinance: Sec. 18-301 defines peddlers and itinerant vendors as persons going place to place selling goods for immediate delivery, whether or not using a wagon, pushcart, or other vehicle, and expressly excludes food truck operators from that definition. Section 18-302 requires a peddler working on foot to observe all pedestrian traffic regulations and bars the vendor from permanently stopping or remaining at one location on public property, or on private property unless zoning allows it, for soliciting, displaying goods, or conducting sales; the code specifies that nothing authorizes a vendor to occupy one spot with such regularity that a reasonable person would think it was the vendor's fixed business location.

Section 18-304 goes further on the sidewalk itself: no inventory, supplies, materials, containers, contraptions, stands, carts, boxes, or signs may be placed or stored on any portion of the public right-of-way, including the sidewalk or swale, and a peddler cannot craft, arrange, or package goods for sale there either. A foot peddler may carry only as much merchandise as can be carried on their person while soliciting; anything stored on private property needs the property owner's prior written approval and must be kept out of public view.

Section 18-303 layers on location and product bans: no sales within 300 feet of a limited-access highway ramp, overpass, or interchange, no sales in a school zone during posted school hours, and no sale of raw or uncooked meat, poultry, fish, or seafood, or any food not prepared in a state-licensed food service establishment.