Scranton, PA Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Scranton does not run a separate 'street fair' licensing ordinance; instead, a festival or community activity is folded into the City's recycling article, Chapter 400, Article V. Section 400-26 defines a 'community activity' as any special event held in the City with over 200 people in attendance, expressly naming festivals, picnics, sporting events, parades, and carnivals as examples. I then extends the commercial recycling mandate to those events: organizers must recycle the same materials required of a commercial establishment whenever those materials are generated at the event.

D, the items currently mandated are corrugated cardboard, office paper, aluminum cans, and leaf waste, tracking the state's Act 101 municipal recycling law, so a street fair with food vendors generating cardboard boxes and can waste has to separate those streams rather than combining them with general trash. G additionally requires a commercial establishment, business, institution, or landlord to file an annual recycling report with the City during the first quarter of the year, backed by weight slips or hauler-signed totals, because the City in turn must report those figures to the Commonwealth for its own Act 101 performance grant.

Section 400-34 separately bars combining recyclables with trash for collection or disposal at all, a general prohibition that reaches event waste along with everyday household and commercial waste. I is the specific, quotable rule that attaches to the event itself rather than to any individual vendor.