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February 2017: The L.A. City Council voted to decriminalize the 10,000 street vendors operating on Los Angeles sidewalks. The decriminalization of street vendors was motivated by a few members of the City Council reacting in January 2017, to the new President enforcing a national crackdown on immigrants entering the country illegally. At that time, it was still a misdemeanor offense under Los Angeles Municipal Code 42.00(b). The City Council needed to go through the Controller, District Attorney, and City attorney in order to change the municipal code.
January 2021: Four years later the L.A. City Council outlined the process for street vendors & mobile food vendors to legally sell produce or product and announced a fee increase. Vending Permit Type | Bureau of Street Services . The CITY agency overseeing selling ANYTHING on the streets is StreetsLA which has a very broad realm of authority. What We Do | Bureau of Street Services