Transient Vendor
101 East Main Street, Suite 101
Jackson, TN 38301
(731) 425-8210

State law requires that all "Transient Vendors" within the city limits have city and county licenses and acquired at City Hall. Licenses for vendors located outside the city limits are required and licensed by the county at the Court House.

"Transient vendor" means any person who brings into temporary premises and exhibits stocks of merchandise to the public for the purpose of selling or offering to sell the merchandise to the public. "Transient vendor" does not include any person selling goods by sample, brochure, or sales catalog for future delivery; or to sales resulting from the prior invitation to the seller by the owner or occupant of a residence. For purposes of this definition, "merchandise" means any consumer item that is or is represented to be new or not previously owned by a consumer, and "temporary premises" means any public or quasi-public place including a hotel, rooming house, storeroom, building or part of a building, tent, vacant lot, railroad car, or motor vehicle which is temporarily occupied for the purpose of exhibiting stocks of merchandise to the public. Premises are not temporary if the same person has conducted business at those premises for more than six (6) consecutive months.

The Transient Vendor Permit Application must be completed and a fee for the issue a Transient Vendor license is levied. The fee for the city is $150 and the fee for the county is $55. View/print Application here.

Financial information supplied to the city is confidential according to state law. The city cannot give this information to anyone other than the business owner or his/her authorized agent unless the records are under subpoena by a court.