South Burlington
City of South Burlington City Manager's Office
In short
City of South Burlington City Manager's Office issues 2 permits we publish for South Burlington, last verified 2026-09-14. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peddler License (the food truck license; fee disputed between two City sources) | City of South Burlington City Manager's Office | The City's two sources disagree and both are recorded. The Planning and Zoning fee schedule adopted July 10, 2023 prices a peddlers permit at $70.00 plus $10.00 per additional person per month, and a travelling peddlers permit at $700.00 per calendar year. Code §24-81, which has not been struck, still prices a peddler using a cart or stand at $5.00 per month or $50.00 per year, a peddler using a vehicle at $25.00 for three months or $75.00 per year, a peddler's helper or employee at $5.00 for three months per person, and a peddler operating from a structure at $5.00 per month or $50.00 per year. A registered 501(c)(3) is exempt from the fee under §24-13. | under Code §24-26(a) each license is effective for one month and may be renewed for two further one-month periods in a calendar year; a license to travel and sell from a vehicle may run up to one year under §24-28(a) | 2026-09-14 |
| General Business License — City of South Burlington positiononly if it applies to you | City of South Burlington City Manager's Office | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-14 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Peddler License (the food truck license; fee disputed between two City sources)
The City's two published sources state different fees. Code §24-27 gives the Council power to set peddler fees by resolution, which would normally mean the July 2023 schedule displaces the Code's own table — but no repealing resolution is published and §24-81 has not been struck from the codified text, so a reader consulting the Code and a reader consulting the fee schedule reach very different numbers, $50.00 a year against $700.00. An operator should confirm with the City Manager's Office before budgeting. Two constraints are clear whichever fee applies. Section 24-52(c) closes the city's main commercial corridors to peddling outright: 'No peddling is permitted on the traveled portion of the following roads: Williston Road, Dorset Street, Kennedy Drive, and Shelburne Road.' And a seasonal mobile food unit faces a separate zoning track under LDR 14.11(I), which subjects it to site plan review, requires 'a valid Commercial Caterer License from the Vermont Department of Health,' caps outdoor seating at sixteen, bars operation between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and limits the zoning permit to a maximum of seven months from April 1 to October 31.
General Business License — City of South Burlington position
No fee applies. Under 24 V.S.A. § 2291(9) and (11), the licensing powers granted to Vermont municipalities are limited to itinerant vendors and peddlers and to circuses, shows and paid entertainments, and the City's own City Permits, Licenses, and Registrations page — which lists the permits issued by the City Clerk, Fire Department, Planning and Zoning, Police, Public Works and the Rental Registry — names no general business license. The City's Municode chapter list — chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38 — names no chapter headed Licenses or Businesses, unlike Burlington's Chapter 19 or Rutland's Title 11. The two things South Burlington does license are exactly the two 24 V.S.A. § 2291 permits: peddlers under Chapter 24, and shows, circuses and carnivals under Chapter 4. What reaches every other business is the zoning permit, the certificate of occupancy, the Fire Marshal's building permit and, for food, a state license — each listed separately.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- South Burlington
- Phone
- (802) 846-4107
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- 24 V.S.A. ch. 61, § 2291 (Enumeration of powers) — the statute limiting Vermont municipalities to licensing itinerant vendors and peddlers under subsection (9) and circuses, shows and paid entertainments under subsection (11)Vermont General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
- City Permits, Licenses and Registrations — the City's own complete enumeration of what it issues, establishing that South Burlington has no general business licenseCity of South Burlington · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
- Code of Ordinances, City of South Burlington, codified through the Ordinance of November 3, 2025 (Supp. No. 3) — Chapter 4 (Amusements and shows), Chapter 16 (Fire prevention and protection, including §16-30(d)(2) plan approval for changes to places of assembly), Chapter 23 (Rental registry) and Chapter 24 (Sales, including the §24-22 peddler requirement, §24-26 monthly term, §24-27 Council fee power, §24-52(c) prohibited roads and the §24-81 fee table)City of South Burlington · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
- Planning and Zoning Fee Schedule, adopted July 10, 2023 — zoning permits by square foot and project cost, sign permits, certificates of occupancy and compliance, conditional use, variance, site plan, subdivision, peddler permits and the $13.00 digitization feeCity of South Burlington Department of Planning and Zoning · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
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