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Senate substitutes bill to ease food-truck licensing, mandate reciprocity across cities and counties

Utah State Senate · February 28, 2017
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Summary

Lawmakers advanced a first-substitute to SB 250 to streamline food-truck licensing and inspections across Utah, ban per-location/day permit fees, eliminate mandatory criminal background checks, and require reciprocity while preserving local zoning authority.

The Senate approved a first substitute to Senate Bill 250 aimed at reducing licensing and permitting burdens for food trucks by creating statewide reciprocity for health and safety permits and limiting local fees.

Sponsor Senator Henderson said jurisdictions often required separate licenses, inspections and per-day or per-location fees that made operating food trucks cumbersome and sometimes impossible. "If a food truck…

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