# Transportation (GTR)

## Title 24. Vehicle Laws -- Size, Weight, and Load; Highway Preservation

### Subtitle 3. Mobile Seafood and Produce Vendors

#### Section 24-301

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)

  (1) "Established place of business" means any permanent building or structure from which a permanent business is conducted during normal business hours throughout the year.

  (2) "Established place of business" does not include a tent, temporary stand or other temporary quarters, or permanent quarters occupied under a temporary arrangement.

(c) "Mobile seafood or produce vendor" means a person who sells or offers for sale any seafood or produce:

  (1) While outdoors on foot;

  (2) From any vehicle or conveyance, whether or not the vehicle or conveyance is in operating condition; or

  (3) From any tent, temporary stand, roadside stand, roadside market, or other quarters that is not an established place of business.

(d)

  (1) "Produce" means any fruit or vegetable product of the soil that is intended for human consumption.

  (2) "Produce" does not include a canned, frozen, dried, or pickled product.

(e) "Right-of-way" includes any highway area or highway structure and any property adjacent to a highway acquired for the operation or use of the highway.

(f) "Seafood" means any finfish, crustacean, or mollusk, live or dead, or any part, egg, offspring, or body of any finfish, crustacean, or mollusk, that is intended for human consumption.

(g) "Shopping center" means any 5 or more contiguous established places of business which share common parking facilities of 25 parking spaces or more.

(h) "State highway" means any public highway owned by this State.

#### Section 24-302

This subtitle does not:

(1) Diminish any authority of Anne Arundel County, Howard County, or a municipal corporation to license and regulate mobile seafood vendors;

(2) Apply to charitable or nonprofit vendors who sell seafood at short-term festivals or other short-term events;

(3) Apply in Calvert County and in St. Mary's County for those persons selling their own seafood catch; or

(4) Diminish the authority of a county to license and regulate mobile produce vendors.

#### Section 24-303

(a)

  (1) When located on the right-of-way of any State highway, a mobile seafood or produce vendor may not sell, or offer for sale, any seafood or produce, unless the vendor has a lease from the State that allows the vendor to sell, or offer for sale, seafood or produce.

  (2) The State may require a mobile seafood or produce vendor to submit an application and pay a reasonable fee to be applied to administrative costs.

  (3) The State may not enter into a lease with a mobile produce vendor unless the applicable county licenses mobile produce vendors.

(b) A mobile seafood or produce vendor may not sell, or offer for sale, any seafood or produce, when located:

  (1) Within 50 yards of any vehicular entrance to or exit from a school or place of worship, unless the vendor has written permission of the applicable school board or person who is responsible for the buildings and grounds of the place of worship;

  (2) Within 100 yards of any vehicular entrance to or exit from any shopping center;

  (3) In the parking lot of any shopping center, unless the vendor has written permission of the owner of the shopping center and conforms to applicable local laws and ordinances;

  (4) Within an unsafe distance, as determined by the local authorities, from the edge of any roadway;

  (5) On any roadway; or

  (6) On private property adjoining a State highway, unless the vendor owns or leases the property or has written permission from the property owner.

(c) The State Highway Administration may adopt regulations to implement this section.

#### Section 24-304

(a) The charging of a person with a violation of this subtitle shall be by means of a traffic citation in the form determined under Sec. 1-605(d) of the Courts Article.

(b) The charging of a person with a violation of this section may be performed by any State or local police officer.

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Md. Code Ann., Transp. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)