(A) Registration card required. It shall be unlawful for any person to go from house to house or from place to place in the city to solicit, sell or take orders for goods, wares, merchandise or services including insurance contracts, subscriptions to magazines or newspapers, or any article for future delivery, unless such peddler shall first have registered with the city and shall have applied for and received from the city a registration card showing such registration.
(B) Application for registration card; contents; fee. Any person desiring a registration card, as required by this chapter, shall file an application with the city. Such application shall give the applicant’s full name; the home address; the name of the last three towns in which the applicant worked; the name of the company or individual such applicant represents or works for, if any; the merchandise, service or product to be sold, disposed of, peddled or hawked by the applicant; and, if such applicant represents another individual or company, satisfactory proof of the authority to represent such company or individual. The application shall be accompanied by a fee of $10 to help defray expenses of investigation.
(C) Annual fee. All registration cards shall be valid for seven calendar days from the date of their issuance. The fees herein provided for shall be used for the purpose of defraying expenses incidental to the issuance of said registration cards.
(D) Issuance of cards. No registration card shall be issued until the applicant therefor shall have complied with all the provisions and requirements of this chapter. Such card, when issued, shall be signed by the City Secretary, shall be dated as of the date of its issuance and shall be valid for the length of time indicated on the face of same. The registration card issued shall be of wallet size and contain the name of licensee, license number, date of registration card, and shall have the city seal stamped on the face thereof. Any card not dated and signed as herein required, or which is issued in violation of this section, shall be void.
(E) Expiration and reissuance of registration card.
(1) After expiration, a subsequent registration card may be obtained by re-registering with the city and applying for such subsequent registration card, and in all other respects complying with the provisions of this chapter. Any peddler may re-register and apply for subsequent registration cards as often as desired.
(2) The city shall issue a subsequent registration card for each applicant therefor within 48 hours after such applicant has complied with all requirements therefor as prescribed herein. Such subsequent card shall be similar to the original card, except as to its date.
(Ord. passed - -) Penalty, see § 113.99