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

Nassau County Code § 18½-100(2)c and (2)e together shut the public right-of-way, including sidewalks and road shoulders, out of mobile food vending entirely. Subsection (2)c states plainly that in no case shall customers utilize the public ROW for parking, underscoring the article's intent to prohibit a MFVV on undeveloped parcels or developed sites lacking adequate space and infrastructure. Subsection (2)e goes further: a MFVV may not operate within county rights-of-way or on county property, or on any state roadway, right-of-way or state property, except for the narrow carve-out covering county-sponsored events on county property.

In practice, a hot dog cart or food trailer cannot legally set up on a sidewalk, road shoulder, or median anywhere in the unincorporated county, no matter how briefly, and property owners cannot direct overflow customer parking into the ROW to accommodate a truck. The only lawful footprint for a MFVV is a developed commercial or industrial site, an approved private property with a qualifying civic, institutional or recreational use, or county property tied to a county-sponsored event, and even there the vehicle must stay clear of setbacks, easements and landscaped buffers. County code enforcement and the Sheriff's Office both have authority to cite a vendor operating in the right-of-way.