1. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of peddler, solicitor, canvasser or any other itinerant occupation within the corporate limits of the city without first obtaining a license therefor, as provided in this article, and paying the prescribed fees to cover the reasonable costs of investigation and processing of the application. The fee shall be paid to the City Clerk-Treasurer when the application is filed and shall not be returnable under any circumstances. The City Council, from time to time, may change such fee by ordinance, to an amount not to exceed the reasonable costs of licensing and enforcement under this article.
2. The following persons are hereby specifically excluded from the application of the provisions of this article:
a. Persons engaged in selling personal property at wholesale to dealers in such property; and
b. Merchants growing their own local produce, and having regular places of business in the city and their employees in taking orders at the houses of their customers for goods held in stock at said places of business, and in delivering the goods so ordered; such exclusion shall not apply to a person who, personally or for another person, firm or corporation, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad box car, boat, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or any other place within said city, for the purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.