Toms River, NJ Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Notwithstanding any other prohibition to the contrary, duly licensed and inspected food trucks are permitted to operate on Washington Street in between the intersections with Route 166 and Hooper Avenue on Sundays between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., provided the operators thereof obtain a special events permit pursuant to § 348-5.20E of the Township Code. The exception does not apply on Sundays when Washington Street is closed or access thereto is restricted for an event, parade, roadwork, emergency, or for public safety reasons.

(2) Food trucks permitted pursuant to Subsection B(1) must be parked within striped parking spaces facing the sidewalk. They are prohibited from parking in front of an open or operating establishment serving or selling food and from obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic. They must also observe other public safety regulations. Food trucks so operating do not constitute an encroachment under Article VIII of Chapter 450.

C. No person regulated hereunder nor a holder of a license under statutory authority (see § 391-30B and C) shall hawk, peddle or vend any goods, wares or merchandise, including but not limited to food, ice cream and soft drinks, upon any municipal beach, park, golf course or other place of recreational or cultural activity or upon any public street or right-of-way thereof adjacent to such municipal beach, park, golf course or place of recreational or cultural activity.

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