HB416 Summary

• Adds Section 28-3A-17.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975 to authorize food truck licenses in Class 1 municipalities only.

• Defines food truck as a fully enclosed food service establishment on a motor vehicle or trailer from which a vendor prepares and sells food for immediate consumption, excluding non-motorized food carts.

• Authorizes the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to issue food truck licenses allowing sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption in open containers within a defined boundary around the food truck, subject to municipal ordinances.

• Permits the board to require barriers around food trucks to define consumption boundaries and requires the board to adopt reasonable rules protecting public health and safety.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.