Christmas Festival Rules & Registration

Booth size: 10 x 10. If you need more space, you must purchase an extra booth. Vendors must provide their own tent, table and chairs.

If you have a booth and trailer, both MUST be registered with 2 forms found at the bottom.

Trucks/Trailers: Charged by the foot. Include footage for endcaps, awnings, tanks, tongue, overhangs, tie lines and additional seating.

Prior locations will be considered.
But NOT guaranteed.

Electricity and water is NOT available. No exceptions. Provide your own quiet generator.

Inclement Weather Policy: This is an outdoor event and will be held “rain or shine”. It is the responsibility of the vendor to assume risk for setting up in inclement or potentially inclement weather. Please be sure to properly secure your tent with the appropriate weights and other safety measures.

Set Up/Tear Down: Vendors may pull into the park for set up and tear down. Vehicles must be out of the park by 9:00 AM. Park access areas are delineated.

Vendors may not complete teardown of their booth until after the event is closed unless otherwise authorized by Main Street staff or volunteers. Doing so may forfeit participation in future Main Street events.

Vendor Parking: Designated vendor parking areas are provided. A parking permit will be provided by Main Street. Trailer parking is limited and by Main Street permission only.

Vendors may not park on Park Street; all vendors must park in the designated parking area(s) or on side streets. If you park where designated as “no vendor parking” you will be towed at the owner’s expense.

State/Local Laws & Taxes: You are responsible for paying all appropriate sales tax with respect to the sale of goods and for procuring all permits and documentation that are required by local and state governments to operate within the state of Florida.

Trash: It is the responsibility of the vendor to clean up your area during and after the event. A trash trailer is provided by Main Street. Vendors ARE REQUIRED to place their trash in sealed bags in the trash trailer, the public trash cans are not to be used for vendor purposes. NO chemicals or dumping of grease on the ground or trash trailer.

Vendor Limits or Exclusions: Vendors must list specific items to be sold at the event.

Main Street reserves the right to limit products and food items. Main Street reserves the right to approve or deny any vendor application.

Insurance: Food Vendors are required to carry liability insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 General Aggregate limit and $1,000,000. Please provide proof of insurance. The insurance company must send it to us directly. Additional Insureds:

Okeechobee Main Street, Inc.
107 SW 5th Avenue – Okeechobee, Fl. 34972

City of Okeechobee and R.E. Hamrick Testamentary Trust 55 SE 3rd Avenue – Okeechobee, FL. 34974

FOOD VENDOR agrees to obtain at Vendor’s sole cost and expense a Commercial General Liability insurance policy with coverage to protect against any and all bodily injury or property damage as a consequence of the installation and/or operation of the equipment, sale of merchandise, services, and/or food provided by Vendor and/or employees, contractors and agents with respect to the activities of Vendor on the premises or any Festival Venue of Okeechobee Main Street, Inc., City of Okeechobee and the R.E. Hamrick Testamentary Trust. This coverage will provide at least a $1,000,000 General Aggregate limit and $1,000,000. The vendor acknowledges that neither Okeechobee Main Street, Inc., City of Okeechobee nor R.E Hamrick Testamentary Trust maintains insurance covering the exhibitor’s property and that it is the sole responsibility of the VENDOR to obtain business interruption and property insurance insuring any losses of VENDOR.

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