Iron County, UT Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 5.08.120 of the Iron County Code regulates nontransient peddlers, anyone who goes place to place in the unincorporated county to sell or solicit sale of produce, goods, wares or merchandise, language that covers a mobile food vendor working county roads outside Cedar City, Parowan, Enoch, Brian Head, Kanarraville and Paragonah. Subsection D sets two location limits. First, a peddler may not pursue the business of peddling within a one-block radius of a school building during the period beginning fifteen minutes before school is in session and continuing until fifteen minutes after the session ends, and this buffer also applies whenever student activities are in progress, not just during class hours.

Second, peddling is barred outright in public parks or playgrounds anywhere in the county, with no buffer distance or time window; the prohibition is total. These zone limits stack on top of the licensing requirement in subsection A, which ties the peddler fee to the schedule in Section 5.04.070, and the separate ban in subsection C on peddling fresh or cured meat or fish. The county license officer administers permits and can request the applicant's prior business history and proof of the origin of goods sold.

A peddler who sets up within the school buffer or inside a park has no permit defense: the location restriction applies regardless of whether the peddler otherwise holds a valid license, and Iron County Code § 1.08.010 supplies the penalty since Chapter 5.08 does not set its own fine for this section.