Collierville, TN Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 110.23 of the Collierville Code is the Town's rule for mobile frozen dessert vehicles, meaning anyone who sells ice cream or other frozen dessert products from motor vehicles, human-powered vehicles, bicycles, three-wheeled vehicles or any other mobile conveyance on streets or public or private property within the Town limits. It is the vending-location rule in the code for that kind of mobile food seller.

The core location rule is that vendors shall not sell or dispense products from stationary locations in the Town, including streets, Town owned property, parking lots, private property or vacant lots. A vendor sells from a moving route, not a fixed spot. Vendors also cannot park or stop to sell within the one-quarter mile of any boundary of a school zone area during the period from one hour before the start of school until one hour after the school day officially ends. No sales are allowed after sunset, and vendors cannot operate in congested areas where selling would impede, cause a safety hazard or inconvenience the public. The judgment of a police officer or a code official acting in good faith is conclusive on whether an area is too congested or unsafe.

Other conditions govern how a stop works. A vendor makes no sales until the vehicle is stopped and lawfully parked, sells only from the side of the vehicle away from moving traffic and as near as possible to the curb, and cannot sell to a person standing in a roadway or stop and back up to attempt a sale. Vendors must hold the licenses required by the state, county and town, comply with Health Department regulations, and carry the minimum insurance required by state and county law.

One fixed vending zone does exist for produce. Under § 151.026(D)(8), the sale of vegetables, fruit and produce on the south side (North Rowlett) of the Town square is permitted with the approval of the Development Director or designee, and a maximum of six Town square produce vendor permits are valid at any one time each growing season. The temporary-use table in § 151.026(B) still points general mobile food vendors to § 110.22, but §§ 110.20 to 110.22 are printed as reserved.