It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to conduct business as a peddler, solicitor, street vendor, mobile vendor, itinerant or transient merchant within the corporate boundaries of the city, unless the person so soliciting shall have first secured a license from the city clerk authorizing him or her to conduct such operations within the corporate limits. A license shall not be required by any person under 16 years of age engaged in solicitation associated with the delivery or distribution of newspapers or shopping news, or working on behalf of his or her own individual entrepreneurial endeavor.
(1964 Code, § 17-1) (Ord. 3504, § 1(23-1), passed 3-9-2009; Ord. 4122, § 1(23-1), passed 5-2-2023)