South Carolina Statewide Rule
South Carolina Food Truck Permits Under Regulation 61-25
Key Facts
- Enabling statute
- S.C. Code 44-1-140
- Permit rule
- Regulation 61-25 permit required
- Applies to
- Mobile food unit and commissary
- Registration
- SC Dept. of Agriculture
- Penalty
- $200 fine or 30 days
Summary
Every food truck in South Carolina is a mobile food establishment that must hold a valid permit under Regulation 61-25 before serving the public. Each unit runs from an approved commissary, and retail food registration now goes through the state Department of Agriculture.
a person who after notice violates, disobeys, or refuses, omits, or neglects to comply with a regulation of the Department of Public Health, made by the department pursuant to Section 44-1-140, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for thirty days.
Full Breakdown
South Carolina folds food trucks into its retail food establishment rules. Section 44-1-140 lets the state public health department write the food code that governs 'restaurants, cafes, drugstores, hot dog and hamburger stands, and all other places or establishments providing eating or drinking facilities.' That code, Regulation 61-25, bars anyone from running a retail food establishment without a valid permit to operate, and a mobile food unit must be permitted as an extension of an approved commissary. Retail food registration is handled through the South Carolina Department of Agriculture at retailfoodregistration.agriculture.sc.gov.
Violations & Penalties
Running a food truck without a valid permit breaches Regulation 61-25 and Section 44-1-150: a misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to two hundred dollars or thirty days in jail, plus civil penalties up to one thousand dollars per day per violation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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