Greenville County, SC Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

County Council found in § 14-2 that severe traffic and safety hazards arise when trucks or similar vehicles park or stand on a county street or road to vend food or other items, singling out ice cream trucks as especially attractive to children, and adopted § 14-3 to regulate the practice for pedestrian safety. Under § 14-3, every operator vending from a truck or vehicle stopped in a county street or road right-of-way must vend only while the vehicle is lawfully stopped, sell only from the side away from moving traffic and as close as possible to the curb, never sell to a person standing in the roadway, run the vehicle's emergency flashing lights the entire time it is stopped, and stop only on the right side of a one-way street.

Section 14-4 places matching duties on other drivers: a driver meeting or overtaking a stopped vending truck with its flashers on must stop no less than 25 feet from its front or rear, then may proceed past at a reasonable, prudent speed not exceeding 15 miles per hour, yielding to any pedestrian crossing to or from the truck. Section 14-5 makes a violation of the § 14-3 and § 14-4 operating rules a misdemeanor prosecuted in magistrate's court, with each day a violation continues charged as a separate offense; the § 14-2 findings section itself carries no penalty.

The rule traces to 1976 Code § 14-2 through § 14-5, adopted by Ordinance 734 and last amended for penalty purposes by Ordinance 2626 on September 6, 1994.