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

Section 21-9 is the stand ban in Chapter 21 of the Jacksonville Beach Code. Subsection (a) says no peddler is allowed to take up any space in the public streets or places for a stand in disposing of the wares, foodstuffs or other things offered for sale. A seller on foot or with a cart has to work the way the section describes: moving from house to house with reasonable dispatch while on the public streets or any other public place, subject to the direction of the chief of police. Foodstuffs are named in the text, so a food seller gets no exemption.

Subsection (b) puts the enforcement duty on the chief of police. The chief is required to clear out of any stand or parking place all vehicles or conveyors found in the streets or other public places and used by peddlers, and to arrest all persons who refuse to remove them forthwith when commanded by the chief of police or any police officer.

Who counts as a peddler comes from § 21-1: anyone, resident or not, traveling from house to house or from street to street to sell or solicit for sale goods, wares, merchandise or services, plus transient or itinerant merchants and vendors. Agricultural products produced or processed in Florida are carved out. The permit required by § 21-21 does not change the stand ban, because § 21-9 applies to every peddler.

Other sections close related gaps. Section 12-20 repeats the stand ban for ice cream and other frozen products and puts those sellers under the direction of the chief of police or the chief's designee. Section 6-6 makes it unlawful to sell any article of food, food products or soft drink from a truck, mobile vending cart, trailer, automobile or other vehicle on the Ocean Beach, from the bulkhead line on the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east and extending to the city limits north and south. Section 28-7 makes it unlawful to display goods or merchandise for sale on any street, alley, sidewalk, footway, park, beach, pool or surf without written permission from the city manager or chief of police.