Food Trucks & Mobile Vendors in Oregon (2026)
29 rules on the books across Oregon, 12 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.
Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions
Food Truck Permits
Licenses and health permits required to operate a food truck, including fees, inspections, and renewal requirements.
Oregon: statewide
StatewideSome RestrictionsOregon Health Authority licenses every mobile food unit statewide under ORS 624 and OAR 333-150. County environmental…
Read full rule →Hillsboro
Significant RestrictionsFood trucks and other mobile businesses in Hillsboro need a business license plus a mobile business permit, must move…
Read full rule →Beaverton
Some RestrictionsBeaverton food carts operating in an approved food cart pod must hold a current City Business License and keep all…
Read full rule →Clackamas County
Some RestrictionsA food cart or mobile food unit operating in unincorporated Clackamas County is a licensed 'food service facility'…
Read full rule →Gresham
Some RestrictionsFood carts and food cart pods operating in Gresham need a city development permit plus a Multnomah County Mobile Food…
Read full rule →Medford
Some RestrictionsMedford regulates food trucks through Section 10.829A, which sorts mobile food vendor pods into Daily Pods (up to five…
Read full rule →Multnomah County
Some RestrictionsMultnomah County requires a permit before two or more mobile food carts operate together at one location, whether…
Read full rule →Portland
Some RestrictionsSelling food from a cart on a Portland sidewalk requires a City Administrator permit under the sidewalk vendor code…
Read full rule →Salem
Some RestrictionsOperating a food truck in Salem requires a mobile food unit license issued under SRC chapter 30, valid one year and…
Read full rule →Washington County
Some RestrictionsA food truck or cart pod in unincorporated Washington County needs a temporary use permit renewed every year if it has…
Read full rule →Vending Zones
Designated areas where food trucks and mobile vendors can operate, including time limits, distance from restaurants, and residential area restrictions.
Eugene
Heavy RestrictionsEugene confines licensed sidewalk commerce, the pushcart-style vending covered by EC 3.344(1), to one stretch of one…
Read full rule →Hillsboro
Significant RestrictionsHillsboro confines sidewalk carts and cafés to two mapped districts, Downtown and Orenco Station, and vending anywhere…
Read full rule →Beaverton
Some RestrictionsMobile food vending in Beaverton runs through the Development Code's Food Cart Pod process: carts are approved only in…
Read full rule →Benton County
Some RestrictionsBenton County's Development Code names mobile food carts as a permitted eating-establishment use only inside the…
Read full rule →Gresham
Some RestrictionsGresham lets permitted street and sidewalk vendors sell food from carts in commercial areas, but GRC 9.45.080 bans…
Read full rule →Medford
Some RestrictionsMedford confines mobile food vendor pods to commercial and industrial zones, C-S/P, C-N, C-H, C-C, C-R, I-L, I-G and…
Read full rule →Portland
Some RestrictionsPortland requires a City Administrator permit to vend from a sidewalk cart, and only allows vending in permit operating…
Read full rule →Salem
Some RestrictionsSalem confines mobile food units to zones where they're a permitted use and bars them from operating in the public…
Read full rule →Washington County
Some RestrictionsA food truck or any vending vehicle cannot sit on a county right-of-way for more than 24 hours to sell merchandise…
Read full rule →Sidewalk & Mobile Vending
Permits and rules for sidewalk vendors and pushcarts, where vending is allowed, cart and equipment standards, and the distance and hours rules that come with a vendor permit.
Beaverton
Significant RestrictionsBeaverton bars fixed or mobile vendors and concessions on its parks, plazas and library grounds unless covered by a…
Read full rule →Bend
Significant RestrictionsIn the City of Bend, selling food, beverages, wares, or goods from a public sidewalk without an adjoining permanent…
Read full rule →Clackamas County
Significant RestrictionsCounty code bars vending vehicles, trailers, RVs and merchandise stands on the traveled roadway or abutting property if…
Read full rule →Eugene
Significant RestrictionsSelling from a pushcart on an Eugene sidewalk requires a private-commerce-on-public-property license under EC 3.336…
Read full rule →Medford
Significant RestrictionsMedford requires sidewalk vendors to hold a business license and City Manager-approved permit under Section 6.350…
Read full rule →Portland
Significant RestrictionsPortland requires a City Administrator permit for every sidewalk vending cart and caps cart size to 24 square feet of…
Read full rule →Gresham
Some RestrictionsSelling food, flowers, or merchandise from a Gresham street or sidewalk requires a Street and Sidewalk Vendor permit…
Read full rule →Hillsboro
Some RestrictionsHillsboro caps sidewalk vending carts at 6 feet long, 3½ feet wide, and 5 feet tall, and limits operating hours to 9…
Read full rule →Multnomah County
Some RestrictionsIn unincorporated Multnomah County, not Portland, a permit from the Health Department is required whenever more than…
Read full rule →Salem
Some RestrictionsSalem street vendors selling from pushcarts must keep carts no larger than three feet six inches by six feet, maintain…
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