Fayette County, GA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 110-96, titled 'Roadside sales,' sets the baseline rule for mobile and temporary vending in unincorporated Fayette County: selling goods or services from a temporary location along a public right-of-way, where the transaction happens outside an approved permanent structure, is prohibited. The section then lists three narrow exemptions from that ban: mobile ice cream vendors, mobile food vendors that serve building sites (construction and job sites), and vendors located at special events. A food truck operating outside those three categories, parked along a public road serving walk-up customers generally, falls under the general roadside-sales prohibition rather than an exemption.

The ban's phrase 'outside an approved permanent structure' targets vending at a location with no permanent building at all, not sales from inside a licensed restaurant or store; a truck or stand set up along a roadway with no such structure is squarely what Section 110-96 reaches. The exemptions read narrowly: 'mobile food venders which serve building sites' ties the carve-out to construction or job-site service rather than general roadside sales to the public, and the special-events exemption requires an actual organized event. The rule sits in Article III of Chapter 110 alongside the county's other yard and use standards for residential and A-R districts, and it was carried forward from the 1992 Code Section 20-5-37 through Ordinance No.

2012-09 and Ordinance No. 2012-13. Because Chapter 110 does not set a separate fine for Section 110-96, a violation is punished under the Code's general penalty, Section 1-7, and Planning and Zoning, working with Code Enforcement, reviews complaints about unauthorized roadside or mobile vending.