I) Any person soliciting or peddling anything which such person has personally manufactured or produced.
ii) Any farmer, poultry man or horticulturist, who is a person, who is soliciting or peddling his own product, but who has not bought goods for resale to sell along with his own product.
iii) Any person, eighteen (18) or over soliciting for personal services to be performed by the person so soliciting.
iv) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the peddling or soliciting of ice, milk, cream, ice cream, butter, eggs, cottage cheese or any dairy products.
v) The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to persons of the age of eighteen (18) or younger selling items for non-profit agencies/schools, nor to salesmen or agents for wholesale houses or firms who solicit orders from or sell to retain dealers for resale or to manufacturers for manufacturing purposes or to bidders for public works or supplies.
vi) People distributing or disseminating literature and/or information.
vii) Any person who regularly sells food to local employees out of their vehicles, when the caterer/vendor goes to the place of employment of its customers, at the customer's request.
viii) Any person, vending, peddling or soliciting under special event authorization of the City and the event sponsor, do not have to register under this chapter. They do have to comply with the event sponsor rules and regulations, tax laws, and health laws, rules and regulations.
(b) The following persons are exempt from the prohibition against the business, of selling merchandise, wares, produce, fruits, vegetables or products of any kind on public streets or sidewalks in the City:
i) Sidewalk sales conducted by charitable and nonprofit organizations, where approved by the adjacent landowner and the City Manager's office.
ii) Sales conducted in commercial parking lots, where approval of the parking lot owner has been obtained.
iii) Periodic sidewalk sales by downtown merchants with presales notice to the City Manager's office.
iv) The delivery of merchandise or products of any kind to places of business or residences or the sale of products from house to house.
(c) Farmers Market: The City of Kent has recognized a portion of the parking lot on the Northwest corner of Summit Street and Franklin Avenue, for the express purpose of maintaining an area for persons to set up a farmer's market. The City shall not require these sellers to be licensed under this chapter.
(Ord. 2011-117. Passed 11-16-11.)