Supervisors OK taco truck tort
By Reggie Ellis
Taco truck, ice cream and snack cart operators will have to digest stricter laws following a recent law passed by the Tulare County Board of Supervisors.

At its Jan. 12 meeting, the Supervisors unanimously approved ordinance requiring mobile food vendors in unincorporated areas to obtain a business license and follow specific regulations for the first time in Tulare County. The primary regulations are as follows:
-In residential areas, vendors cannot operate from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and cannot stop for more than 10 minutes at a time.
-In nonresidential areas, vendors can operate at any hour, but can only park in one location for more than one hour if they can provide restroom facilities for their employees.
-Vendors can park in the public right of way along a highway if certain safety requirements are met.
-Vendors can park off the highway if they have written permission from the property owner.
-Trash must be removed when a vendor leaves a location.
-Business equipment must be removed when a vendor leaves a location unless they have written permission from the property owner to leave it there.
'Most of the vendors have said ëWe can live with this,'' said Barbara Booth Grunwald, who presented the ordinance for the County Counsel's office. She said for ease