CHAPTER 122
PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS, AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS

122.01  Purpose	122.10  Time Restriction
122.02  Definitions	122.11  Revocation of License
122.03  License Required	122.12  Hearing
122.04  Application for License	122.13  Record and Determination
122.05  License Fees	122.14  Appeal
122.06  Bond Required	122.15  Effect of Revocation
122.07  License Issued	122.16  License Exemptions
122.08  Display of License	122.17  Charitable and Nonprofit Organizations
122.09  License Not Transferable

 

122.01 PURPOSE.

The purpose of this chapter is to protect residents of the City against fraud, unfair competition, and intrusion into the privacy of their homes by licensing and regulating peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants.

122.02 DEFINITIONS.

For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:

   1.   “Peddler” means any person carrying goods or merchandise who sells or offers for sale for immediate delivery such goods or merchandise from house to house or upon the public street. 

   2.   “Solicitor” means any person who solicits or attempts to solicit from house to house or upon the public street any contribution or donation or any order for goods, services, subscriptions or merchandise to be delivered at a future date.

   3.   “Transient merchant” means any person who engages in a temporary or itinerant merchandising business and in the course of such business  hires, leases or occupies any building or structure whatsoever, or who operates out of a vehicle that is parked anywhere within the City limits.  Temporary association with a local merchant, dealer, trader or auctioneer, or conduct of such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local merchant, dealer, trader, or auctioneer does not exempt any person from being considered a transient merchant.

122.03 LICENSE REQUIRED.

Any person engaging in peddling, soliciting or in the business of a transient merchant in the City without first obtaining a license as herein provided is in violation of this chapter.