Spring Hill, TN Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Sidewalk & Mobile Vending (2026)

These rules sit in Title 9, Chapter 2, which covers every peddler, canvasser, solicitor and transient merchant. The chapter does not single out food sellers, so the street-use limits apply to any permittee. Under § 9-201 nobody works in the corporate limits without a permit first. Section 9-208 then limits where a permit holder can operate: no location in the public streets, no stationary location on them, and no operating in a congested area where the operation might impede or inconvenience the public use of the streets.

The same section hands the congestion call to the police: the judgment of a police officer, exercised in good faith, is deemed conclusive as to whether the area is congested and the public impeded or inconvenienced. Section 9-207 bars a permittee, or anyone acting on the permittee's behalf, from shouting, crying out, blowing a horn, ringing a bell or using any sound amplifying device on sidewalks, streets, alleys, parks or other public places, or on private premises where the sound is capable of being plainly heard on the adjacent public places, when the purpose is to attract attention to goods, wares or merchandise for sale.

Permittees must exhibit the permit at the request of any police officer or citizen (§ 9-209). Section 9-214 adds a second layer. A transient vendor is an individual who is not a resident of the city and intends to offer goods or services for sale. A temporary vendor offers goods or services only for special events or on an infrequent basis. Both must carry a bond with an added condition to remove all debris and refuse from the area they occupy, or deposit $100 with the City Recorder, which is returned ten days after the vendor stops operating if the Chief of Police certifies that the conditions are met. Both also deposit $10 for each day they intend to do business, in addition to all other fees.