Commissioners in Clark County, Nevada recently approved an ordinance that will ban sidewalk vendors have conducting business close to resort hotels and facilities that have large capacities of seating, according to a local Las Vegas Review-Journal report.
Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to approve the ban. The decision brings the county into alignment with recent state laws passed during the past legislative session. The state law requires that street vendors cannot operate “within 1,500 feet of a resort hotel or near a facility that can seat at least 20,000 people, among other areas.”
The new law will take effect October 17. A second ordinance, designed to establish licensing requirements, acceptable locations for street vendors and fees must be on the books by July 1, 2024, according to the local report.
Confusion regarding Senate Bill 92, which set the stage to legalize street food vending, led to the present action. The bill took effect this summer and requires counties around the state to “establish a licensing process” in relation to street vendors.
Make the Road Nevada spokesperson Tony Ramirez said in a statement, “Our top concern on this bill is restrictive parameters. Sidewalk vendors are not going anywhere.
“We need a system that will allow them to quickly go through the permitting process through Clark County and Southern Nevada Health District, or we will have a design created for nobody to access.”
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