(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to haul or bring into the village, either directly or indirectly, any goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, fruit, food products, or other personal property with the intention of selling or disposing of the same from any room, store, warehouse, building, lot, railroad car, vehicle, or in any other manner whatsoever, either at wholesale or retail, by soliciting orders therefor from house to house, or from store to store or otherwise without a bonafide intention of engaging in the business of selling or disposing of such goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, fruit, food products, or other personal property in established or to be established place of business, within the village, without first obtaining a license for such purpose as herein provided. This section shall not apply to salespeople taking orders by sample or by solicitation for orders for outside wholesale houses, for goods and merchandise not already trucked or loaded for selling or delivery.
(B) Any person, firm, or corporation who does or attempts to do any of the acts specified in division (A) above shall first make application to the Village Clerk for a license to do so, and for such license shall pay fees as follows:
License Type | Fee |
License Type | Fee |
For each day or part of a day less than one week, except for sale of used autos and trucks | $5 per day |
For each week under one month, except for sale of used autos and trucks | $10 per week |
For each month, less than one year, except for the sale of used autos and trucks | $25 per month |
For one year, except for sale of used autos and trucks | $50 per year |
For sale of used autos and trucks, one week of less | $25 |
For sale of used autos and trucks, per month | $75 |
For sale of used autos and trucks, per year | $300 |
(C) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person, firm, or corporation having a regularly established place of business within the village, and whose stock of goods, wares, or merchandise has been assessed for taxation and the tax shall have been paid thereon during the current year, nor to any person, firm, or corporation selling wood, fuel, or farm products produced by such person on his or her own premises or on the premises of others.
(Ord. 75-9, passed - -) Penalty, see § 110.99