Bossier Parish, LA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Bossier Parish Code § 86-1(c)
- Exempt zone 1
- Incorporated areas (cities, towns, villages)
- Exempt zone 2
- Within 5 miles of City of Bossier
- Banned zone
- Unincorporated parish outside those areas
- Underlying ban
- Sec. 86-1(a), meat and seafood only
- Penalty for banned-zone sales
- Up to $500 fine and/or 30 days
Summary
Bossier Parish's ban on itinerant meat and seafood vendors does not apply in incorporated areas or within five miles of the City of Bossier, per Sec. 86-1(c). Outside those exempt zones, in the rest of unincorporated Bossier Parish, itinerant sale of fresh or frozen meat or seafood remains unlawful under Sec. 86-1(a).
(c)This section shall not apply in incorporated areas, nor within five miles of the City of Bossier.
Full Breakdown
Sec. 86-1(c) carves the geographic limit on the parish's itinerant meat and seafood vending ban: the prohibition in Sec. 86-1(a) shall not apply in incorporated areas, nor within five miles of the City of Bossier. Read together with the underlying ban, this means an itinerant vendor selling, offering to sell, exhibiting for sale or taking orders for fresh or frozen meat or seafood is lawful only inside a municipality like Bossier City, Haughton, Plain Dealing or Benton, or within a five-mile radius of Bossier City's limits; anywhere else in the unincorporated parish, an itinerant vendor selling those goods is committing an offense under Sec.
86-1(a). The five-mile exemption effectively covers a large share of populated unincorporated Bossier Parish given how close Bossier City sits to much of the parish, but vendors operating farther out, away from any municipality and beyond that five-mile radius, remain subject to the ban. The Code does not carve out any other exempt zone, such as near Barksdale Air Force Base or Benton, beyond the incorporated-area and five-mile rule stated in subsection (c). Violations of the underlying ban, including selling outside the exempt zone, are punished under Sec. 86-1(d) using the Code's general penalty section, Sec. 1-13.
Violations & Fines
Selling fresh or frozen meat or seafood as an itinerant vendor outside the exempt zone defined in Sec. 86-1(c), meaning outside incorporated areas and beyond five miles of the City of Bossier, is punished under Sec. 86-1(d) as provided in Sec. 1-13: a fine of up to $500.00, imprisonment of up to 30 days, or both, with each day of continuing violation a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where in Bossier Parish can an itinerant meat or seafood vendor legally sell?
Does the five-mile Bossier City exemption cover most of the parish?
Is there an exemption near Barksdale Air Force Base?
What happens if a vendor sells meat outside the exempt zone?
Sources & Official References
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