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A coalition of food trucks and a Virginia nonprofit, public interest law firm are urging the government of Haines City in Polk County to cease efforts to pass a "near-total ban" on food trucks and to allow all banned food trucks to resume operations, says an agency representing the trucks, the Virginia-based Institute for Justice.
Haines City's food truck ban violates state law as well as the Florida and U.S. constitutions, says the Institute for Justice in a Monday news release.
Earlier this month, Haines City considered an ordinance that would force city staff to stop issuing the necessary approval for new food trucks to legally operate — "effectively banning them from operating in Haines City," says the legal group. The ordinance would apply to existing food trucks as well, resulting in those trucks losing city permission to operate on Oct. 1.
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