Flagler County, FL Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Sec. 21-55 puts the burden on the special event applicant to obtain an itinerant merchant license (IML) from the Department of Development Services for each individual merchant, concession, or booth operating on the event property; sharing a single license between two or more vendors is not allowed, and someone claiming to be an employee rather than an independent merchant must prove that status to the county or be classified and licensed as a separate itinerant merchant. Food vendors must additionally meet, and show proof of compliance with, the requirements of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation's Division of Hotels and Restaurants.

Other goods-and-services vendors must comply with the Flagler County Code and any Florida Statutes governing their specific product or service, and a violation of that state law or regulation is independently treated as a violation of the special events article. Sec. 21-74 requires every proposed vendor, concession, or booth location to be marked on the site plan sketch and approved by the county before the event; vendors who sign on after the planning meeting must still be reported to the county with their proposed location before the event starts, and the applicant remains responsible for securing an IML for each one. Sec. 21-77 separately allows vendors' event signage under relaxed rules, exempt from the county's general sign code, but only for the event's duration.