Sacramento Municipal Code Art. VII Operation-Generally

No person may sell any product from a food vending vehicle unless the vehicle has been brought to a complete stop and is parked in a lawful manner. (Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)

No vendor may sell any product from a food vending vehicle unless the site is adequately lit to ensure customer safety. Any lighting maintained by the vendor shall be directed downwards and away from public streets and adjacent properties. (Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)

No person may operate a food vending vehicle while the vehicle is connected to an external source of power, water, or any other utilities, unless the connection is expressly approved as a condition of a valid food vending vehicle property permit. (Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)

No vendor may place any free-standing signs, tables, chairs, fences, shade structures, or other furniture on or near the site of the operation of the food vending vehicle. (Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)

While operating a food vending vehicle, vendors shall keep customers and other patrons from blocking all streets, sidewalks, paths, driveways, doorways, and other avenues of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. (Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)

While operating a food vending vehicle, a vendor shall maintain the area surrounding the vehicle free of trash and other debris. A vendor shall provide its customers with appropriate receptacles for garbage, mixed recycling, and organic waste and pick up any trash in the area before leaving. A vendor shall not dispose of trash generated by the operation of the food vending vehicle in any public or private garbage, recycling, or organic waste receptacle that is not owned by or leased to the vendor. (Ord. 2023-0024 § 1; Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)

A. No vendor shall operate a food vending vehicle unless the vendor has a contract with a city-franchised waste hauler to collect garbage, mixed recycling, and organics generated by the vendor and its customers.

B. Subsection A does not apply if the vendor self-hauls all waste material generated by the vendor and its customers to a central location such as a restaurant, commissary kitchen, or commercial kitchen. All self-hauled waste materials must be separated into appropriate waste material receptacles for collection. (Ord. 2023-0024 § 2)

A. No person shall operate a food vending vehicle while stopped for more than a one-hour period in any location, or within four hundred (400) feet of that location, unless prior to stopping, the food vending vehicle permittee has provided the director with a copy of the county of Sacramento's approval of readily available toilet and handwashing facilities within two hundred (200) feet travel distance of that location, issued in accordance with Section 114315 of the California Health and Safety Code.

B. A copy of the county's approval shall be maintained with the corresponding food vending vehicle at all times and be posted in a location that is easily visible by patrons.

C. Upon demand of a peace officer or city employee authorized to enforce this chapter, a person operating a food vending vehicle shall present a copy of the county's approval that is in effect for that vehicle. (Ord. 2015-0016 § 5)