CHARLOTTE — Charlotte City Council is once again proposing criminal penalties for street vending.
The council’s Public Safety Committee voted on Monday to ban street vending citywide and to create a criminal penalty option for violators.
Street vending is currently banned in Uptown and NoDa. Vendors who are caught illegally selling goods are fined.
However, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the city attorney’s office say the fines are going unpaid, and there is no penalty for not paying them.