Iron County, UT Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

Chapter 5.08 of the Iron County Code governs itinerant peddlers operating outside Cedar City, Parowan, Enoch, Brian Head, Kanarraville and Paragonah, in the unincorporated county. Section 5.08.120(B) defines a peddler broadly as anyone who goes from place to place to sell or solicit sale of garden or farm produce, fruit, butter, eggs, goods, wares, works of art or any merchandise whatsoever, language broad enough to reach a mobile food seller working the county's roads outside the I-15 corridor cities. Section 5.08.120(D) is the operative rule for sidewalk display: peddlers are flatly prohibited from displaying their wares outside of their vehicle on public streets and sidewalks anywhere in the county, so a food vendor may sell from the truck window but cannot set up a folding table, sign board or sample spread on the pavement beside it.

Section 5.08.120(A) ties the license fee to the schedule in Section 5.04.070, and Section 5.08.120(C) separately bans peddling fresh or cured meat or fish altogether, a limit any mobile food operator must also clear. The county license officer administers the peddler permit and can require proof of prior business history, moral character and origin of goods before issuing it. Enforcement for a violation of the display ban falls under the county's general penalty, Iron County Code § 1.08.010: a noncompliant peddler faces a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine or up to a year in jail, or an infraction carrying up to a $750 fine, with each day of continued violation charged as a separate offense.