(A) Except as provided in § 122.02, no person shall use any portion of the streets, sidewalks or other public rights-of-way or any public property for the location or operation of any private business or commercial enterprise including, without limitation, the sale, display, bartering or leasing of any merchandise, commodity, land, real estate or service, without first obtaining a permit or franchise for such use from the City Commission or other authorized official.
(B) The City Commission, upon request, may pass a motion granting revocable permission for such use to an applicant, upon a showing that such proposed use is not in conflict with the public interest. Such revocable permission shall not grant any vested rights to the applicant, regardless of the length of time such permission is in effect.
(C) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to any natural person selling farm, grove, horticultural or floricultural products, when said products were grown by such natural person in the city, and such sale or display takes place upon the public right-of-way abutting the land upon which such products were grown; nor shall this section be applicable to the sale of newspapers or other constitutionally protected material.
('72 Code, § 29-1) (Ord. O-76-31, passed 4-14-76; Am. Ord. O-76-39, passed 5-26-76; Am. Ord. O-82-41, passed 9-15-82) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Sales of food from mobile units, see § 122.02