Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 134 (2025GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Dailey-Provost, Jennifer

Final action

Governor Signed 3/19/2025

Outcome

Became law — signed by Gov. Spencer J. Cox

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• clarifies that a food cart may be moved with an electric assisted bicycle.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

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11-56-102
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Food Cart Amendments
2025 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Jennifer Dailey-Provost
Senate Sponsor: Todd Weiler
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill clarifies that a food cart may be moved with an electric assisted bicycle.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
clarifies that a food cart may be moved with an electric assisted bicycle.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
AMENDS:
11-56-102
, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 438
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1, Section 
11-56-102
 is amended to read:
11-56-102
. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1)
(a)
"Enclosed mobile business" means a business that maintains ongoing mobility and 
of which the receipt of goods or services offered and point of sales occurs within an 
enclosed vehicle, an enclosed trailer, or an enclosed mobile structure.
(b)
An enclosed mobile business's goods or services include those offered in the 
following industries:
(i)
barber;
(ii)
beauty and cosmetic, including nail, eyelash, and waxing;
(iii)
cycling;
(iv)
cell phone;
(v)
computer;
(vi)
footwear;
(vii)
media archive and transfer;
(viii)
pet grooming;
(ix)
sewing and tailoring;
(x)
small engine; and
(xi)
tool.
(c)
"Enclosed mobile business" does not include a food cart, a food truck, or an ice 
cream truck.
(2)
"Event permit" means a permit that a political subdivision issues to the organizer of a 
mobile business event located on public property.
(3)
(a)
"Food cart" means a cart:
(i)
that
, except as provided in Subsection 
(3)(c)
,
 is not motorized; and
(ii)
that a vendor, standing outside the frame of the cart, uses to prepare, sell, or serve 
food or beverages for immediate human consumption.
(b)
"Food cart" does not include an enclosed mobile business, a food truck, or an ice 
cream truck.
(c)
"Food cart" includes a cart that is pulled by an electric assisted bicycle, as that term 
is defined in Section 
41-6a-102
.
(4)
(a)
"Food truck" means a fully encased food service establishment:
(i)
on a motor vehicle or on a trailer that a motor vehicle pulls to transport; and
(ii)
from which a food truck vendor, standing within the frame of the vehicle, 
prepares, cooks, sells, or serves food or beverages for immediate human 
consumption.
(b)
"Food truck" does not include an enclosed mobile business, a food cart, or an ice 
cream truck.
(5)
"Health department permit" means a document that a local health department issues to 
authorize a mobile business to operate within the jurisdiction of the local health 
department.
(6)
(a)
"Ice cream truck" means a fully encased food service establishment:
(i)
on a motor vehicle or on a trailer that a motor vehicle pulls to transport;
(ii)
from which a vendor, from within the frame of the vehicle, serves ice cream;
(iii)
that attracts patrons by traveling through a residential area and signaling the 
truck's presence in the area, including by playing music; and
(iv)
that may stop to serve ice cream at the signal of a patron.
(b)
"Ice cream truck" does not include an enclosed mobile business, a food cart, or a 
food truck.
(7)
"Local health department" means the same as that term is defined in Section 
26A-1-102
.
(8)
"Mobile business" means an enclosed mobile business, a food cart, a food truck, or an 
ice cream truck.
(9)
"Mobile business event" means an event at which a mobile business has been invited by 
the event organizer to offer the mobile business's goods or services at a private or public 
gathering.
(10)
"Operator" means a person, including a vendor, who owns, manages, controls, or 
operates a mobile business.
(11)
"Political subdivision" means:
(a)
a city or town; or
(b)
a county, as it relates to the licensing and regulation of businesses in the 
unincorporated area of the county.
(12)
(a)
"Temporary mass gathering" means:
(i)
an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly of 500 or more people that continues, 
or reasonably can be expected to continue, for two or more hours per day; or
(ii)
an event that requires a more extensive review to protect public health and safety 
because the event's nature or conditions have the potential of generating 
environmental or health risks.
(b)
"Temporary mass gathering" does not include an assembly of people at a location 
with permanent facilities designed for that specific assembly, unless the assembly is a 
temporary mass gathering described in Subsection (15)(a)(i).
Section 2. 
Effective date.
This bill takes effect on 
May 7, 2025
.
3-7-25 11:34 AM