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

The Town of Irondequoit has no stand-alone food truck or sidewalk cart ordinance. Food sellers are regulated as hawkers and peddlers under Chapter 167, Peddling and Soliciting. The chapter defines a peddler as a person who sells or offers goods from any public street or public place, on foot or on or from any vehicle. Section 167-3 makes it unlawful to act as a hawker, peddler or solicitor in the Town without first obtaining and paying for a license and receiving a solicitor's permit.

The sidewalk rule is in § 167-12D. A hawker, peddler or solicitor cannot create or maintain a booth or stand, or place barrels, boxes, crates or other obstructions, on any street, sidewalk, right-of-way or public place to sell or expose goods for sale. Section 167-12I adds that no licensee can use the public streets or government property within the Town as standing places for vehicles, handcarts or pushcarts to conduct business. Read plainly, the Town Code bars a fixed stand or a parked cart on the public way, even for a vendor who holds a license.

Food sellers carry extra duties. Section 167-12B requires vehicles and receptacles to be kept clean and sanitary, with foodstuffs and edibles for sale well covered and protected from dirt, dust and insects. Section 167-12C prohibits blowing a horn, ringing a bell or using another noisy device so as to create a public nuisance. Under § 167-12E, any weighing or measuring device must be examined and sealed by the County Sealer of Weights and Measures.

Section 167-2 exempts berry pickers selling their own berries and farmers and producers peddling meats, fish, fruit and farm produce, among others. Applications go to the Town Clerk at least two weeks before the first day of operation, with a police background check for each person selling.