(a) The annual license fee to act as a hawker or peddler, if the person licensed travels without a motor vehicle, shall be ten dollars ($10.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of not more than one-half ton capacity, fifteen dollars ($15.00), if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than one-half ton capacity, but not exceeding one ton capacity, fifty dollars ($50.00): if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than one ton capacity, but not exceeding two tons capacity, one hundred dollars ($100.00); and if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than two tons capacity, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), plus one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each additional ton or fraction thereof over two tons capacity; and the person licensed shall pay at the same rate for each and every motor vehicle so used. Such person shall carry his license in some conspicuous place in his vehicle or about his person; and in addition thereto he shall cause to be painted or stenciled in a conspicuous place on the left-half side of his vehicle the number of such license and the words "City of Dunbar Hawker and Peddler" and the license year for which such license is issued, which information shall be in black letters on a white background, and the whole thereof shall be at least eight by twenty inches in size. Such license shall be coextensive with the City, and shall not be assignable to any other person.
When used in this section, "sale" means and includes both sale for money or for barter, and offers to make any such sale.
Any person who shall carry goods, wares or merchandise from place to place, either in person or by agent or employee, and sell, for delivery at the same time, any such goods, wares or merchandise to any purchaser, at wholesale or retail, shall be deemed a hawker or peddler under this section.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who sells any goods, wares or merchandise to be delivered in the future; or to any of the following who offer immediate delivery of the goods, wares or merchandise being sold.
(1) Any person engaged within the City in the business of agriculture, horticulture or grazing, who sells individually or collectively, one or more for the other or others, the products derived from his or their business or calling aforesaid;
(2) Any person engaged in the maintenance or operation of a retail merchandise store to exchange goods, wares or merchandise from such store for agricultural, horticultural or grazing products, or to resell any such products received in due course of such business; nor to any other retail business concerned, established and operating continuously for one year or more within this City in the sale of any product or products over regular routes;
(3) Any wholesaler or jobber selling soft drinks or nonintoxicating beer for which he is duly licensed;
(4) Any person who sells petroleum products, ice, wood, meats, milk, ice cream, bread, cakes, pies, and other bakery products, butter and eggs, manufactured, grown or produced by any such person and not purchased by him for resale;
(5) Any sales by societies, groups or organizations acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes;
(6) Any agent or salesman selling manufactured products, except green groceries and canned or bottled fruit products, produced by his employer, and who sells the same to retail dealers for the purpose of resale.
Provided, however, that any person exempt from license as above provided, shall obtain from the City Collector a license receipt, without cost, showing that he is exempt, which shall be effective for the period as provided for annual licenses in this article and shall be coextensive with the entire City.
(Ord. 103. Passed 6-25-42.)