New Port Richey, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- City Code § 13-564
- Permit
- Required for public ways/sidewalks
- Residential areas
- Off-limits to vending
- Special event buffer
- 500 feet
Summary
New Port Richey, Florida, a Pasco County city, bars mobile food vendors from sidewalks and other public ways without a permit, and even permitted trucks must stay out of residential zones.
Each stationary mobile food vendor shall obtain a permit from the city and comply with the requirements of this section for operation on public property or public ways. No other mobile food vendor shall operate on public property or public ways within the city.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 68).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 13-564 requires any stationary mobile food vendor working on public property or public ways, a term the code defines to include sidewalks, streets, alleys and roadways, to first obtain a city permit; no other mobile food vendor may operate there at all. Permitted state-licensed dispensing vehicles may use public streets in specific commercial and mixed-use districts, but no mobile food unit may vend on public property or public ways in areas zoned residential or adjacent to residential dwellings, and none may sit within 500 feet of an active special-event permit area.
Violations & Fines
Selling from a sidewalk or other public way without a permit, or vending in a residential-zoned or residential-adjacent area, violates Sec. 13-564 and can trigger removal and revocation under Sec. 13-568.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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