Nevada
Additional rules, regulations in place for street vendors in southern Nevada
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — More street vendors have been seen setting up shop across the Las Vegas valley. Operators are selling their food, made to order. But soon, they may have to change the way they’re running their business.
“It’s great food. Great, quality stuff. Everyone’s cool and it’s a lot of fun,” said one customer who stopped to grab a late night snack from a stand located at the intersection of Desert Inn Road and Fort Apache Road in the west valley.
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While the reaction has been mostly positive from customers, street vendors do have to operate under a very specific set of rules, recently established by Senate Bill 92. The law provided a path to legalize street food vending across the state and gave jurisdictions, like the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, the platform to set their own regulations.
In January, the City of Las Vegas proposed an ordinance that would require street vendors to pay a total of $200 in business licensing and processing fees. Vendors would also have to provide a health card, health permit and sales tax permit.
Last fall, Clark County passed an ordinance that prohibits street food vending within 1,500 feet of a resort hotel, an event facility with capacity of over 20,000 seats for a minor or major league team, the convention center and in a median or highway, if adjacent to a parking lot. For example, the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign.
The county is still working to establish separate rules that address licensing fees.
Meantime, separate task forces have been created to figure out ways to make licenses more affordable and accessible to street food vendors.
Channel 13 also contacted the Southern Nevada Health District to learn more about the do’s and dont’s regarding street vending. In 2023, the health district received 230 unpermitted vending complaints
“The volume of complaints has been steady without any significant increase,” said a health district spokesperson.
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The health district also has two dedicated employees assigned to investigate complaints.
“The SNHD has not currently issued any permits for sidewalk vendors. Any vendors currently operating are unpermitted. When sidewalk vendors do obtain a health permit, they must be compliant with all current SNHD regulations,” the spokesperson said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada.
Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon. In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon. Nevada’s average was $5.23 a gallon, the result of around 88 percent of the state’s gasoline coming from California.
It might be getting worse — regardless of what happens in Iran.
In recent months, two major California refineries have shut down. That represented a 17 percent reduction in California’s refining capacity. Their closures weren’t caused by the Iran war, but by Gov. Newsom and California’s relentless attacks on fossil fuels.
To make up for the fuel it won’t extract or refine in-state, California depends on imports from foreign countries.
“We are importing 30 percent of our crude oil from the Middle East,” Mike Ariza, a former control board supervisor at the Valero Benicia Refinery, said in an interview. He has been warning the public about California’s potential fuel shortage. “There are not very many ships left on the way that have fuel,” he said last month.
Last week, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported that “about 2 million barrels of oil are in the process of being unloaded in Long Beach off of the last California-bound tanker that got through the Strait of Hormuz.”
At a California legislative hearing Tuesday, Siva Gunda, the vice chairman of the California Energy Commission, said the state has enough gasoline to accommodate demand for the next six weeks. That’s not a very long time, especially given that it takes weeks or months for oil to travel from the Middle East to California. And that process won’t begin until the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
There is a region, however, with abundant oil available for sale and safe passage — the southeastern United States. Unfortunately, the Jones Act, an antiquated 1920 law, mandates that only U.S.-flagged ships may move cargo between U.S. ports. But only 55 of the more than 7,000 oil tankers worldwide comply with this requirement.
This is where Mr. Trump rode to the rescue. Late last month, the White House announced Mr. Trump would suspend the Jones Act for another 90 days. In March, he originally waived it for 60 days. This will make it easier for California and Nevada to obtain domestic product.
If only Mr. Trump could also suspend the destructive energy policies imposed by Gov. Newsom and California Democrats.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — An adoptable pet is in the spotlight for “Furever Home Friday,” with Amy from the Nevada SPCA featured in a segment highlighting an animal available for adoption today.
The Nevada SPCA encouraged viewers looking to add a pet to their family to consider adopting.
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