Volusia County, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)
Key Facts
- Base rule
- written consent required for ROW use
- Commercial use ban
- includes display/sale of goods
- Exception
- licensed peddlers selling from vehicles
- Sales limit
- abutting property occupants only
- Penalty section
- § 1-7 general penalty
- Last amended
- Ord. 2025-07 (Feb. 2025)
Summary
Volusia County bans selling, displaying or otherwise commercially using any county right-of-way or public land without prior written consent under Code § 94-1. The only carve-out lets someone holding a valid peddler license make sales from a vehicle parked on the right-of-way, but only to occupants of the property directly abutting it.
(b)Commercial use. The prohibition set out in subsection (a) of this section includes any commercial use, including but not limited to the sale of and display for sale of any merchandise, the servicing or repair of any vehicles except the rendering of emergency service, the storage or parking of vehicles and the display of advertising of any sort. ... (d)Sales by licensed peddlers. Persons holding valid peddler licenses issued by appropriate governmental agencies may make sales from vehicles standing on the right-of-way to occupants of abutting property only.(e)Penalty. Violations of this section are punishable as provided in section 1-7.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 108 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Section 94-1(a) prohibits using any county right-of-way, its appendages, or public lands under the county council's authority for anything beyond their intended purpose without the county's prior written consent. Subsection (b) spells out what counts as 'commercial use' triggering that ban: selling or displaying merchandise for sale, servicing or repairing vehicles (apart from emergency roadside help), storing or parking vehicles, and posting any kind of advertising. 0231, without written county approval. The lone carve-out for vendors is subsection (d): a person holding a valid peddler license from an appropriate government agency may sell from a vehicle standing on the right-of-way, but only to occupants of the property immediately abutting that spot, the classic ice-cream-truck model, not a general sidewalk-vending allowance.
Violations are punishable under the general penalty provision, § 1-7 (subsection (e)). The section was most recently amended by Ord. No. 2025-07 in February 2025, after originating in Ord. No. 79-24 in 1979, and it sits in Chapter 94, Roads and Bridges, alongside the county's small-wireless-facility right-of-way rules.
Violations & Fines
A vendor selling or displaying merchandise from a county right-of-way without written consent, or without a peddler license limiting sales to abutting-property occupants, violates § 94-1(b) or (d) and is punishable as provided in § 1-7, the county's catch-all penalty section covering fines for code violations that lack their own stated penalty.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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