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The following persons are exempted from the requirements of this chapter: Charitable solicitors or temporary businesses operated by and for tax exempt organizations. The following additional persons shall be exempted from the requirements of this chapter: persons selling newspapers, commercial travelers or selling agents calling upon commercial establishment in the usual course of business, and licensed real estate agents.
(Ord. 55-16. Passed 6-27-16.)
Upon receipt of an application for a Solicitor’s Permit or an Itinerant Vendor Permit, the City Manager or his designee shall determine whether the applicant has an active criminal warrant, or is registered as a sex offender or is delinquent in City income tax or county real estate tax. In such circumstance, the City Manager shall deny the permit of such an applicant.
(a) In the case of Itinerant Vendor, the City Manager shall conduct an investigation relative to the proposed location of the business and may deny such permit if, as a result of such an investigation, the City Manager determines that the proposed location will adversely affect the public health, safety or welfare by causing or creating a traffic hazard, traffic congestion, unreasonable disruption in areas zoned residential or for other just cause.
(b) The City Manager shall keep a full record in his office of all permits issued and denied, and shall prepare reports from time to time to City Council showing the same.
(c) Within thirty (30) working days of receipt of an application, the Responsible Official shall either issue to the applicant the requested permit or issue a written notice of denial and the reasons therefore. Approved permits shall contain the number of the permit, the date that same is issued, the expiration date of said permit, the place where said business may be carried on under such permit, the name or names of the person or persons authorized to conduct said business.
(Ord. 55-16. Passed 6-27-16.)
(a) Solicitor's Permits issued under the provisions of this chapter shall expire six (6) months after the date of issuance thereof unless a prior date is set therein.
(b) Itinerant Vendor Permits shall expire as determined by the City Manager's Office and as shown on the permit, but in no case later than six (6) months after issuance.
(Ord. 55-16. Passed 6-27-16.)
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