(A) Any vendor who desires to engage in door-to-door solicitation shall first obtain from the Police Department a non-transferable door-to-door solicitation license (“license”) permitting such activity by vendor and/or by vendor’s employees and agents.
(B) If the vendor intends to sell or offers to sell any type of food or beverage, the Police Department shall refer the application to the Hamilton County Health Department for review and recommendation. The review shall include an inspection of all refrigeration equipment to be used by the vendor and shall insure that minimum sanitation requirements established by state and local law are met.
(C) The Police Department shall provide to any person, upon request, a door-to-door vendor application form (“application”) to be completed by a vendor and submitted to the Police Department for review and approval by the Chief of Police, or his designee. The application shall require the following:
(1) General information about the vendor, vendor’s business and the nature of vendor’s proposed door-to-door solicitation. The applicant shall state relevant information about the vendor’s company such as: date of incorporation; state of incorporation and if the corporation is formed outside of the State of Indiana; the date on which such corporation was qualified to transact business as a foreign corporation in Indiana.
(2) Each employee and agent involved in door-to-door solicitation, pursuant to a license issued to the vendor under this section, to provide a valid government issued photo ID and a signed release authorizing the Police Department to run a nationwide criminal history report. Juvenile employees and agents are also required to provide a copy of a work permit issued by the State of Indiana. If any vendor, its employee or agent who is named in the application has a criminal arrest record, the Chief of Police may require the vendor, employee or agent to deliver an official copy of any records related to the arrest and/or conviction, and may include other documents, such as a police report, court records, or protection order.
(3) The name, address and telephone number of the contact person who will respond to consumer complaints who shall be available for a period of time not less than 60 days following the last date that the vendors sells or offers goods, wares, merchandise, food, services or subscriptions in the city.
(4) An application fee, as determined by the Chief of Police, or his or her designee.
(5) A license fee, in accordance with § 112.11(F).
(D) If, while any application is pending, or during the term of any license granted thereon, there is any substantial change in fact, policy or method that would materially alter the information given in the application, the applicant shall notify the Police Department, in writing, of the change within 72 hours after such change. If the applicant or licensee fails to so notify the Police Department, any license issued to the applicant or vendor shall be suspended pursuant to § 112.13.
(E) A license and a non-transferable identification card shall be issued to a vendor by the Police Department upon such vendor’s completion of an application, confirmation that such vendor and all employees and agents who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation have no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of the application date for a crime of, fraud, theft, burglary, robbery, and/or any other crime against another person, and such vendor has paid a license fee as set forth in § 112.11(F).
(F) The vendor shall pay the Police Department license fee of:
for each employee and agent involved with door-to-door solicitation listed on the application. The fee shall not be returned or refunded upon denial of employee or agent, and all such monies shall be deemed forfeited.
(G) The decision as to whether an application is approved or denied shall be made by the Chief of Police, or his designee, within 20 days from the date the application is submitted to the Police Department for processing.
(H) Vendor, and each of vendor’s employees and agents, shall openly display upon his or her person an identification card issued by the Police Department whenever engaging in door-to-door solicitation.
(Ord. 060208, passed 6-2-08; Am. Ord. 091514A, passed 11-17-14; Am. Ord. 082117B, passed 8-21-17) Penalty, see § 112.99