Section
112.01 Permit required
112.02 Application for permit
112.03 Issuance of permit; possession and exhibition
112.04 Appeal from refusal to issue permit
112.05 Duration and renewal
112.06 Transferability
112.07 Revocation of permit
112.08 Appeal and review
112.09 Sales to minors
112.10 Itinerant merchants; specific regulations
112.11 Exceptions
112.12 Enforcement
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, without first obtaining a permit as hereinafter provided, to go in or upon or permit its representatives to go in or upon any private residence or premises in the town as solicitor, peddler, hawker, not having been requested or invited so to do by the occupants of the private residence or having secured their permission so to do for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, periodicals, or merchandise or for the purpose of distributing, disposing of, peddling, or hawking the same.
(Ord. passed 11-10-2003) Penalty, see § 10.99
Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to engage in the business or practices referred to in § 112.01 shall file with the Town Manager an application for a permit to do so. The application shall be in writing, under oath, and shall show the applicant's name, age, fingerprints, current address, and his or her place of residence and nature of employment during the preceding year, the address and nature of business of his or her employer or principal, if any, and shall specify in detail the goods, wares, periodicals, or other merchandise to be offered for sale and shall state whether or not the applicant has been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude and if so the nature of the crime and the place and time of conviction. The applicant shall also furnish, at the time of filing his or her application, a photograph made within 1 year of the date of the application. The applicant shall also give to the Town Manager at the time of the filing of the application the other information requested as may be of assistance in passing upon the qualifications of the applicant. If the application is filed by an employer, there shall also be filed a separate application for each solicitor giving the information set forth above as to the qualifications of the solicitor and the same shall be signed and sworn to by each solicitor and a separate permit shall be issued for each applicant.
(Ord. passed 11-10-2003) Penalty, see § 10.99
If upon investigation reasonable made, the Town Manager ascertains and determines that the applicant for a permit, as herein required, is a person of good moral character and proposes to engage in a lawful commercial or professional enterprise during hours that will not unduly disturb the occupants of residences, the Town Manager shall issue to him or her a permit to engage in the business with permit shall contain substantially the information set forth in his or her application and to which shall be attached the applicant's photograph and fingerprints. The permit shall be carried at all times by the applicant to whom issued when soliciting or canvassing in the town and shall be exhibited by the applicant whenever requested to do so by any police officer or any person solicited. If the Town Manager shall, upon investigation determine that the applicants not a person of good moral character and that he or she does not purpose to engage in a lawful commercial or professional enterprises during hours reasonably convenient for the occupants of residences, he or she shall refuse to issue the permit.
(Ord. passed 11-10-2003)
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