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Food-truck owners urge state to adopt single-agency permitting to cut red tape

5761363 · September 10, 2025
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Summary

Mobile-food vendors testified that current local permit requirements are inconsistent and costly, asking the Legislature to create a single statewide permitting system so vendors inspected by their home board of health can operate across municipalities without repeat inspections and fees.

Food-truck owners and industry representatives told the committee that the current municipal-by-municipal permitting regime imposes substantial time and financial costs and recommended a uniform statewide permitting system under the state sanitary code. Christopher Sanchez, owner of Sweet Memories (a mobile food establishment), told the committee he must obtain permits from each municipality he visits and…

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