Okaloosa County cannot shut food trucks out of town. Fla. Stat. §509.102 preempts food-truck operation to the state and forbids a local government from prohibiting mobile food vehicles across the whole of its jurisdiction. Neutral parking, private-property, and right-of-way rules still apply.
The state preemption in Fla. Stat. §509.102 reaches operation, not just licensing. A county or city may not ban mobile food dispensing vehicles from operating within the entirety of its jurisdiction. Okaloosa County and its municipalities therefore cannot draw a no-food-truck map, though they keep neutral zoning, parking, and right-of-way rules that bind all vehicles, and a truck needs the property owner's permission to set up on private land. Vending in a public right-of-way or a county park follows the generally applicable rules for that location, and beach and special events around Destin and Fort Walton Beach set their own vendor terms.
A truck parked without the property owner's consent, or blocking a public right-of-way, faces trespass or parking enforcement, but the county cannot cite a truck merely for being a food truck in a given area.
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