Chapter 122 – Peddlers, Solicitors And Transient Merchants

CHAPTER 122 PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS 122.01 Purpose 122.11 Revocation of License 122.02 Definitions 122.12 Notice 122.03 License Required 122.13 Hearing 122.04 Application for License 122.14 Record and Determination 122.05 License Fees 122.15 Appeal 122.06 Bonds Required 122.16 Effect of Revocation 122.07 License Issued 122.17 Expiration of License 122.08 Display of License 122.18 License Exemptions 122.09 License Not Transferable 122.19 Charitable and Nonprofit Organizations 122.10 Time Restriction 122.20 Violations; Penalties 122.01 PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to protect residents of the City against fraud, unfair competition, and intrusion into the privacy of their homes by licensing and regulating peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants. 122.02 DEFINITIONS. For use in this chapter the following terms are defined: 1. “Peddler” means any person carrying goods or merchandise who sells or offers for sale for immediate delivery such goods or merchandise from house to house or upon the public street. 2. “Solicitor” means any person who solicits or attempts to solicit from house to house or upon the public street any contribution or donation or any order for goods, services, subscriptions or merchandise to be delivered at a future date. 3. “Transient merchant” means any person who engages in a temporary or itinerant merchandising business and in the course of such business hires, leases or occupies any building or structure whatsoever, or who operates out of a vehicle which is parked anywhere within the City limits. Temporary association with a local merchant, dealer, trader or auctioneer, or conduct of such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local merchant, dealer, trader, or auctioneer does not exempt any person from being considered a transient merchant. 122.03 LICENSE REQUIRED. Any person engaging in peddling, soliciting or in the business of a transient merchant in the City without first obtaining a license as herein provided is in violation of this chapter. 122.04 APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. An application in writing shall be filed with the Clerk for a license under this chapter. Such application shall set forth the applicant’s name, permanent and local address, and business address if any. The application shall also set forth the applicant’s employer, if any, and the employer’s address, the nature of the applicant’s business, the last three places of such business and the length of time sought to be covered by the license. An application fee of two dollars ($2.00) shall be paid at the time of filing such application to cover the cost of investigating the facts stated therein. 122.05 LICENSE FEES. The following license fees shall be paid to the Clerk prior to the issuance of any license. 1. Solicitors. In addition to the application fee for each person actually soliciting (principal or agent), a fee for the principal of thirty dollars ($30.00) per year.