The City of Ionia has the authority to regulate transient merchants where they interfere with the flow of traffic or pedestrian movement.
(a) Streets and Sidewalks. No person licensed under this chapter, nor any person on his her behalf, shall have any exclusive right to any location in the public streets or rights of way. No license shall be permitted a stationary location within a congested area if said location operates to impede or inconvenience the public use and enjoyment of City streets and sidewalks.
(b) Parking Lots and Driveways. No sales activity or exhibit, whether mobile or stationary, shall be conducted in, upon or so near the entrance to parking lots or driveways as to obstruct or impede the free ingress and egress of vehicle traffic therewith.
(c) Exercise of Public Safety Powers. For the purpose of this chapter, the judgment of the Public Safety Department, exercised in good faith, shall be deemed conclusive as to whether an area is congested or impeded or inconvenienced.
(Ord. 369. Passed 7-5-95.)