Farmersville, TX Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Section 60-2 defines 'special event' broadly enough to cover a street fair or festival, listing a carnival, a festival, and seasonal sales among the triggering categories, along with any gathering involving the temporary offer of merchandise, food, or beverages on public property or on private property beyond what the certificate of occupancy allows. Section 60-24 sets the operative vendor standard: food handling and the sale of alcoholic beverages at the event must follow all federal, state, county and city statutes, rules and guidelines, and when a health permit is legally required, concessionaires and caterers must obtain it from the city at least 72 hours before the event and pay the applicable temporary food service license fee.

The special event operator also carries the burden under Section 60-24(c) of ensuring participants, spectators and patrons do not carry alcoholic beverages into or out of the licensed premises. Vendors serving alcohol face additional requirements layered on top of the food rules: Section 60-22 requires any outdoor area where alcohol is served to be fully enclosed by an interlocking fence meeting Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission licensed-premises standards, with a copy of the TABC permit posted on site, and Section 60-22(f) requires the alcoholic beverages permit application to reach the city manager at least 15 days ahead of the event.

Tent and canopy vendors must also produce a flame-spread certificate from their supplier under Section 60-23, kept on hand for inspection by the fire department.