St. Lucie County, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 32-95, part of chapter 32's public-conduct article, reaches the same footprint defined in § 32-87: parks, preserves, playgrounds, recreation areas, beaches and other county-owned or leased land. The prohibition covers two acts: exposing or offering anything for sale, rent or trade, and placing a stand, cart or vehicle to transport, sell or display food, drink, articles or merchandise, whether the vendor is on foot or driving a food truck onto county property. Both acts are unlawful for anyone except the county government itself or a concessionaire operating under a license issued by the board of county commissioners, meaning a food truck cannot simply park at a county park or preserve and start selling; it needs the county's own concession agreement first.

The section has stood unchanged since the article's original 1982 enactment (Ord. No. 82-10), giving the board, not the parks and recreation director's general group-function permit under §§ 32-97 and 32-98, sole authority over who may vend commercially on county park land. A vendor invited to a permitted group function under § 32-97 still needs the separate concession authorization if food or merchandise is being sold rather than given away.