Walton County, FL Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors: Vending Zones (2026)

Section 7-1 states the roadside rule in a single sentence: no person shall do business as a roadside vendor in the county. That prohibition has stood since 1982 and applies countywide in the unincorporated area, with no carve-out for food trucks or mobile food dispensing vehicles, which the Land Development Code glossary defines as any self-propelled or movable vehicle that is a public food service establishment under state law with self-contained utilities. On the beach side, Chapter 22's beach vendor article requires a permit for any vending on the beach at all, issued for a specific fixed location and subject to policy, fee, and operational rules set by the Board, but Section 22-60(d)(12) draws its own hard line for food specifically: at any beach owned, leased, dedicated to, or maintained by the county, it is unlawful to vend food or beverage on the beach or in the parking lot, full stop, regardless of whether the vendor otherwise holds a beach vendor permit.

00 under Section 22-62, enforced by sheriff's deputies and code compliance officers, with a right to contest the citation before the county's Code Compliance Special Magistrate within 30 days.