Sahuarita, AZ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)
Key Facts
- Required mirrors
- 2 outside wide-angle mirrors
- Required signage height
- 3 inches, contrasting color
- Vending cutoff
- 10:00 p.m. or sunset
- Product limit
- Food and toys only
- Scope
- Residential areas only
Summary
Food vending vehicles in Sahuarita's residential streets must carry two wide-angle mirrors, 'Watch for Children' signage, a visible town license number, and hazard lights while stopped. Sales are cut off after 10 p.m. or sunset and limited to food and toys only.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in street vending – food within the town with a motorized vehicle of any description that does not have affixed and operating two outside wide-angle mirrors, one located at the front driver's side directed at the front of the vehicle and one located at the rear driver's side directed at the rear of the vehicle. ... C. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in street vending – food after the later of 10:00 p.m. or sunset, and before sunrise. ... E. Street vending – food shall be limited to the vending of food items and toys only.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4745395; v0 updated 2025-12-08; through 12-08-2025).
Full Breakdown
100 imposes special restrictions on street vending of food that apply only within residential areas, per subsection (F). Subsection (A) requires every motorized food vending vehicle to have two operating outside wide-angle mirrors, one on the front driver's side aimed forward and one on the rear driver's side aimed rearward, so the operator can see children approaching the vehicle. Subsection (B) requires signage in contrasting-color letters at least three inches tall reading 'Watch for Children' on the front and rear of the vehicle, the phrase 'Town of Sahuarita Lic.
' followed by the vendor's town-issued license number on the right side, and the vendor's registered business name on both the right and left sides. /sunset cutoff that applies to general street vending elsewhere in the chapter. Subsection (D) requires hazard lights to be operating any time the vehicle is stopped while vending. Subsection (E) limits food vending to food items and toys only, so a licensed food vendor cannot also sell unrelated merchandise from the same stop. 080.
Violations & Fines
Operating a food vending vehicle without the required mirrors, signage, or hazard lights, or vending food after 10:00 p.m. or sunset in a residential area, is unlawful under STC § 5.15.100 and is enforced alongside the general street vending violations in § 5.15.110, with each day of noncompliance a separate offense. A vendor's license may be suspended or revoked under § 5.15.120 for violating this section.
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