Tulare County, CA Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

For on-street operation, section 6-20-3010(a) allows a mobile food facility to stop within a highway right-of-way in unincorporated Tulare County only where the applicable speed limit is 35 mph or slower, and the truck must park at least 100 feet from any intersection (including alley intersections), must not impede traffic view or vehicle movement, must not let patrons buy from their cars, must let patrons park on the same side of the road and reach the truck via a sidewalk or area away from the highway, and must face its service window away from traffic.

The vendor must carry a valid driver's license on at least one employee at all times, cannot connect to any utility service, must supply and remove its own rubbish containers, and must sign an indemnification agreement with the County. For off-street operation, section 6-20-3010(b) requires parking at least 20 feet from the paved edge of any public highway (or from the corner edge on a corner lot), no view obstruction, no drive-through sales, safe patron parking and pedestrian access, and the service window on the side away from traffic; utility hookups are prohibited without written landowner permission and code compliance, and tables, chairs, and awnings must be removed when the truck leaves unless the landowner has given written permission to leave them.

and must move at least every ten minutes, while in nonresidential zones it may operate at any hour but cannot stop over an hour without restroom facilities within 200 feet, per Health and Safety Code section 114315. These rules apply only within unincorporated Tulare County; a truck parked inside Visalia, Tulare, Porterville, or Dinuba is subject to that city's own vending-location rules instead.