Hamburg Village, NY Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Chapter 161 of the Village of Hamburg Code, Mobile Food Vending, adopted by the Board of Trustees on 12-19-2016 by L.L. No. 8-2016, holds the festival rule in § 161-8(L). The 500-foot ring is measured from the boundary line of the event, and it covers any fair, carnival, circus, festival, special event or civic event that is licensed and/or approved by the Village of Hamburg. A vendor who wants to sell inside that ring needs a permit from the Village Clerk, and the operator of the event must receive notice. The code adds that permission can be conditioned on payment of the fees charged other vendors with respect to the event, so a food truck cannot set up beside a village-approved festival without paying what the event's own vendors pay.

That festival permit sits on top of the ordinary mobile food vending permit required by § 161-3. The fee under § 161-5 is $150 for the first vehicle and $50 for each additional vehicle, and under § 161-6(B) every permit expires on April 1 of every year. Other Chapter 161 limits keep applying at an event: no vending within 100 feet of the primary entrance of an open restaurant without the owner's written permission, no vending within 60 feet of an intersection, and no vending before 7:00 a.m. or after 11:00 p.m.

Sellers of other goods are covered by Article II of Chapter 175, Transient Retail Merchants. A transient retail business is a retail or wholesale business conducted in a temporary structure or tent, from a truck, van or trailer, or on part of a public right-of-way for a temporary period. Section 175-19(A) requires the license from the Village Clerk-Treasurer no later than two business days before the first date of business, and the fee is set by resolution of the Board of Trustees. Section 175-21(F) exempts persons operating a sale on behalf of a bona fide charitable, educational, scientific, health, religious, patriotic or other organization of worthy cause. These are the Village of Hamburg's rules; the surrounding Town of Hamburg has a separate code.