Summit County, OH Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- School buffer
- no vending within 200 ft, 9am-4pm
- Buffer timing
- applies only during the school term
- Countywide hours
- licensed vending limited to 9am-8pm
- Local override
- township/city ordinance controls if adopted
- Violation
- minor misdemeanor, up to $100 fine
Summary
Summit County keeps mobile vendors away from schoolchildren and off the clock. Section 775.07(b) bars any itinerant vendor from parking or stopping to sell within 200 feet of a school between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the school term, and Section 775.07(c) confines all licensed peddling and soliciting to the hours of 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. countywide.
No itinerant vendor, hawker, peddler, solicitor, or canvasser shall park, stand or stop, for the purpose of making any sale, within 200 feet of any school between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. during the school term. ... All peddling or soliciting done under license issued by virtue of this Chapter shall be conducted between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Full Breakdown
16. during the school term, keeping food trucks and other mobile vendors off school frontages during the instructional day. anywhere in the covered area, school zone or not. 16 layers local law on top: in a township with its own transient-vendor resolution, or a village or municipality with its own peddler ordinance, that local law controls instead of Chapter 775; the county chapter only fills the gap where no local regulation exists. 08.
Violations & Fines
Vending inside the 200-foot school buffer during school hours, or outside the 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. window, is a Chapter 775 violation. Section 775.99(a) makes it a minor misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to one hundred dollars per offense, and the Office of Consumer Affairs may revoke the vendor's license under Section 775.10 for the violation, on top of any penalty imposed in court.
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