CHAPTER 116: PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
Section
   116.01   Written application for permit
   116.02   Fee; issuance of solicitor’s permit
   116.03   When fee for permit not required
   116.04   Display of permit; additional information to be relayed orally
   116.05   Contracts
   116.06   False or misleading statement prohibited
   116.07   Sales or contracts in violation may be voided
   116.08   Exception
 
   116.99   Penalty
§ 116.01 WRITTEN APPLICATION FOR PERMIT.
   Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in soliciting the sale of goods or services of any description at any residence in the city shall first make an application in writing, setting out the names and addresses of the applicant, and of the proprietors and owners of an applicant other than a natural person, and shall also file with the Chief of Police the name and address of each and every person proposing to engage in such solicitation.
(1992 Code, § 116.01) (Ord. 08-2003, passed 4-15-2003)
§ 116.02 FEE; ISSUANCE OF SOLICITOR’S PERMIT.
   Upon favorable investigation of said applicant and of the persons desiring to engage in such solicitation and upon payment of a fee of $50 per person, per week, the Chief of Police shall issue a solicitor’s permit to said applicant, for each such person, upon which permit there shall appear, in addition to any other language prescribed in the discretion of the Chief of Police, the following language:
    (Name of salesperson) has been granted permission to solicit the sale of (Brief Description of Product or Service) to residences in the City of Highland Heights, Kentucky on behalf of _____________, his or her employer or principal, for a period of one week from the date of this permit.
ISSUANCE OF THIS PERMIT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ENDORSEMENT BY THE CITY OF HIGHLAND HEIGHTS OF THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE FOR WHICH SALES ARE SOLICITED.
(1992 Code, § 116.02) (Ord. 08-2003, passed 4-15-2003)
§ 116.03 WHEN FEE FOR PERMIT NOT REQUIRED.
   If any applicant for the permit provided for in § 116.02 has already paid to the city a fee for a license permitting him or her to engage in business in the city, and the solicitation, with respect to which the application for a permit, is made is to be conducted in connection with such business, then, the fee provided for in § 116.02 shall not be required, although the application for an issuance of the permit therein provided for shall nonetheless be required.
(1992 Code, § 116.03) (Ord. 08-2003, passed 4-15-2003)
§ 116.04 DISPLAY OF PERMIT; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BE RELAYED ORALLY.
   Immediately upon entering into conversation for the purpose of soliciting the sale of goods or services with any person at any residence in the city, the solicitor shall, before making any other statement or declaration of any kind, display the permit provided or in § 116.02 to such person, and shall, in addition, inform said person orally of his or her (the solicitor’s) name, the person or firm he or she represents and the general nature of the product or service he or she is selling.
(1992 Code, § 116.04) (Ord. 08-2003, passed 4-15-2003) Penalty, see § 116.99
§ 116.05 CONTRACTS.
   If such solicitor enters into a contract of the sale of any product or service at any residence in the city, he or she shall inform the purchaser in writing at the time the contract is executed:
   (A)   The contract or any obligation signed in connection therewith will be negotiated or discounted to some other person than the contracting parties, if such is the fact; and
   (B)   If the contract provides for installment payments of the purchase price of the true interest rate charged on the unpaid balance thereof and the true amount of all service or carrying charges to be paid in connection with such contract.
(1992 Code, § 116.05) (Ord. 08-2003, passed 4-15-2003)
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