Old Town Solicitations Permits will be granted to allow persons to solicit in the Old Town HPO 5 subject to the following conditions and subject to any necessary rules and regulations adopted by the Mayor to implement §§ 13-3-2-1 et seq.:
(A) Vendors shall be allowed to solicit within the Old Town HPO 5 only on the porch, on the sidewalk along the east side of San Felipe Street, NW, from the line perpendicular to San Felipe Street taken from the midpoint of South Plaza Street, NW, to 16 feet south of the north end of the porch. This area shall be divided into 15 equal spaces, which shall be generally five feet in width and six feet in depth measured from the building wall. The spaces shall have provision for access and shall be divided in such a way to ensure movement and safety. The Old Town Portal Manager shall administratively determine and delineate the exact location of the spaces to insure that soliciting does not obstruct the view from the two large windows of the La Placita Restaurant and to insure movement and safety between the vendors. All spaces will be numbered from 1 through 15 beginning at the south end of the designated area.
(B) The spaces shall be available each day to vendors. The Old Town Portal Manager will assign spaces for each day to those vendors present at the time of assignment. Assignment shall be made once a week for each day of the subsequent week for a seven-day period by such methods established by regulation of the Mayor that will insure a fair and equitable assignment of spaces. Each vendor who is assigned a space shall pay a daily user fee of $12. No vendor may occupy more than one space, whether or not there are spaces otherwise unoccupied, and only one person shall be permitted to occupy one space. If a vendor has not filled his or her assigned space on a given day, the Old Town Portal Manager may reassign the space for the balance of that day and shall receive the daily user fee from the vendor reassigned to the space. The reassignment procedures will be established by regulation of the Mayor.
(C) A vendor shall sell only handcrafted items handcrafted by that vendor or his or her craft unit, and each item to be sold shall contain the maker's mark of that vendor or member of a craft unit. Items such as jewelry, shall be labeled for content if a significant part of the value of the item relates to its content; for example, silver should be labeled as sterling silver, nickel silver and the like, as appropriate, stone should be labeled as turquoise, reconstituted turquoise and the like, as appropriate. Vendors shall comply with the provisions of all laws of the state and of the United States applicable to the sales of the items they are vending.
(D) For each transaction, the vendor shall issue a sales receipt showing the vendor's permit number.
(E) The Old Town Portal Manager may designate a person to make site visits to the studio, the place of business or place of manufacture, of the vendor and the vendor's craft unit to insure compliance with the provisions of §§ 13-3-2-1 et seq. The Old Town Portal Manager and the designee shall from time to time inspect the vendor's operation on the Old Town Portal Market.
(F) Vendors shall attempt to solicit in the Old Town Portal Market in at least one weekly lottery in each four-week period.
(G) Permits will be issued for a one year period starting July 1, 1991. All permits issued after July 1 of any year will expire on the following June 30.
(H) The Mayor shall have the authority to issue warnings and citations and initiate complaints, as appropriate for violations of §§ 13-3-2-1 et seq., its implementing rules and regulations, or other city ordinances.
('74 Code, § 10-2-12) (Ord. 20-1991; Am. Ord. 14-2002; Am. Ord. 2019-023)