Boone County, KY Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

01, part of Chapter 130 (Offenses Against County Regulations), states in full that it is unlawful to sell or give away any form of produce, dairy products, or any form of merchandise on the public right-of-way. 1 on May 29, 1979, the rule predates the modern food-truck industry, but its plain text reaches any vendor, including a mobile food unit, that tries to sell from the shoulder, median or other part of a public road right-of-way anywhere in unincorporated Boone County. The county code contains no separate mobile-vending or food-truck zoning ordinance and does not designate specific vending zones, so a food truck's lawful option in the unincorporated county is to operate from private property with the owner's permission, subject to that site's own use restrictions under Boone County's Zoning Regulations, a separate instrument administered regionally by the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission.

This right-of-way rule applies only outside Florence, Union and Walton; each of those cities enforces its own separate code and can set its own food-truck or vending permit requirements within city limits. 99's general penalty provision for Chapter 130 offenses.