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

Section 14-38 of the Lauderhill Code of Ordinances governs the trucks and carts that serve food directly from the street rather than from a fixed sidewalk stand. The code defines a vending vehicle as any automobile or truck duly licensed in the State of Florida which vehicles stop on the street and serve to customers certain goods, and separately defines mobile food vendor as an entity licensed by Florida and Broward County and registered with the city that sells food outdoors from a vehicle situated outside the public right-of-way. Every vending vehicle must pass an annual city inspection, display four amber flashing corner lights visible from 200 feet while stopped, and carry a registration sticker with a four-inch number on the left rear panel; the sticker cannot be transferred between vehicles.

Subsection (d) controls how and where a vehicle may stop to serve: every vending vehicle shall stop as far to the right of the street as possible before serving customers, but shall not stop or park on the swale. Vendors are also barred from operating within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary, middle or high school during the first hour after that school's dismissal, whether or not the school sits inside city limits, unless it is a no-school day or summer break. Vending music may play to attract customers but must be turned off while a vehicle is actively serving and cannot be plainly audible past 100 feet.