(a) License Required; Fee.
(1) No person shall act as a door-to-door salesperson to intrastate commerce, calling at residences or places of business without the invitation or previous consent of the owner(s) or occupant(s) without first having secured from the Chief of Police a license therefor. The fee for such license shall be as follows:
A. For six months: $30.00
B. For one year 60.00
(2) No peddler shall sell or offer for sale in this City any goods, merchandise or services without first having secured from the Chief of Police a license therefor. The fee for such license shall be as follows:
Nature of Operation | Month | Year |
Truck or other street vehicle | $30.00 | $60.00 |
Push cart | 30.00 | 60.00 |
Carried door to door | 30.00 | 60.00 |
(3) All fees collected shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund.
(b) License Application Contents. Application for a license as a door-to-door salesperson in intrastate commerce or as a peddler shall be made upon a form provided by the Chief of Police. Each application shall contain among other information, the name, address and telephone number of the applicant; the name, address and telephone number of his employer, if any; the nature of the goods or services for which he will take orders or to be offered for sale; the proposed method of operation in the City; and such other information as the Director of Safety may require. A separate license shall be required for each individual salesperson or peddler even though there may be a single employer. No person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or a felony shall be issued a license as a door-to-door salesperson in intrastate commerce or as a peddler. Each applicant may be required to submit to fingerprinting for identification purposes.
(c) Hours of Operation. No person shall sell or offer for sale any candy, ice cream, confection or any food or beverage for human consumption from any motor vehicle, vehicle or cart of any kind on any public street, sidewalk or public area in the City, except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. daily.
(d) Exceptions. No license shall be required of a farmer or producer who is selling the product of his own farm, or a bona-fide representative of a charitable, church or religious organization who is selling exclusively books or tracts published by a religious group or other goods or merchandise sold in connection with an appeal to charitable or religious purposes, such latter class of sales being governed by the registration requirement of Section 751.05.
(d) Duties of License. No door-to-door salesperson’s or peddler’s license shall be transferable nor shall it be used by any person other than the licensee. Such license must be exhibited on request to any law enforcement officer or to any prospective customer. No licensee shall wear any part of the uniform of any of the armed forces of the United States while actually engaging in door-to-door sales or peddling.
(f) Investigation; License Revocation.
(1) Upon a written complaint being filed with the Police Division that any door-to-door salesperson in intrastate commerce or any peddler is suffering from a communicable disease or has made himself obnoxious to the public by the use of indecent, profane or insulting language, or the unsanitary condition of his person or clothing, an investigation shall be made, and if such complaint is found to be true, the license of such door-to-door salesperson or peddler shall be revoked by the Director of Safety.
(2) Any license issued hereunder shall be revoked by the Director of Safety if the holder thereof is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or has made a false material statement in the application.
(3) Immediately upon such revocation, written notice thereof shall be given by the Director of Safety to the holder of the license in person or by certified U.S. mail addressed to his or her residence address as set forth in the application. Immediately upon the giving of such notice the license shall become null and void.
(Ord. 83-96. Passed 8-5-96.)