Food Truck Permit: State-by-State Guide

Food Truck Permit applies to mobile food vendors, food trucks, and mobile food carts. Who issues it is the first thing that changes at the state line — sometimes a state agency, often a city or county. Each state page below names the office we verified for that state, or says plainly that we could not.

Who issues this across the US

43 jurisdictions issue this locally; 7 jurisdictions where we have not verified the issuing office; 1 jurisdiction with a state issuer plus possible local rules.

What varies: whether the state or the city licenses you, whether a commissary is required, the fee scale, and how far in advance the inspection has to be booked.

Choose your state

Every figure below was located on that state's own government page by machine, and the page it came from is linked on the state's page along with the date it was checked. "Not verified" means exactly that — no government page we hold has been shown to state it, so we publish nothing. It does not mean the fee is zero.

Related filings

Most businesses that need a food truck permit end up needing at least one of these too.