Jacksonville Beach, FL Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Section 12-16 is the Jacksonville Beach vending rule that switches on when a festival or special event is held. It sits in Article II of Chapter 12, Ice Cream and Similar Frozen Food Products, so the products it covers are those regulated by that article. Section 12-27 describes them as pre-packaged snacks, ice cream, or other similar frozen products sold at retail from vehicles. The section is not a general food vendor rule for every stall at a festival.

Two prohibitions are printed. First, sales are prohibited at all times on the boardwalk and the public beach east of the established bulkhead. Second, sales are prohibited during festivals and special events within a defined area, whose boundaries are the east line of Third Street, the south line of Sixth Avenue North, the north line of Beach Blvd., and the established bulkhead line along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. That block covers the oceanfront core around the pier and Beaches Town Center approaches.

There is one carve-out: sales are permitted to customers residing adjacent to the boundaries, even if their residence extends within the prohibited area.

Related sections in the same article add operating conditions. A vehicle cannot be licensed or used for these sales until the police department has inspected and certified its lights, brakes, tires and speedometer (section 12-17). Nobody can take up space in public streets or places for a stand, and vendors must move with reasonable dispatch and are subject to the direction of the chief of police or his designee (section 12-20). A license from the city manager is required before operating (section 12-27).

For the events themselves, Chapter 19.5 states that the city maintains a special event policy for events on city property, adopted by the city council. The staged code text for Chapter 19.5 holds findings and that policy mandate, not vendor booth standards.