GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 116.01 TAG DAY SALES.

   Whenever any individual or group of individuals are granted permission by the city to hold a tag day sale or permission to solicit funds in any manner upon the streets of the city, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to solicit said funds or sell any articles in the doorway or entryway of any business establishment and shall as all times place themselves a reasonable distance from the doorway or entryway thereof.

('71 Code, § 4-28-1) (Ord. 1789, passed 8-27-73) Penalty, see § 10.99

LICENSING

§ 116.05 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   PEDDLER.   Any person with no fixed place of business who goes from house to house, from place to place, or from street to street, carrying or transporting goods, wares, or merchandise and offering or exposing the same for sale, making sales and deliveries to purchaser.

   SOLICITING. Any one or more of the following activities:

      (1)   Seeking to obtain orders for the purchase of goods, wares, merchandise, foodstuffs, real property or personal property or services of any kind for any consideration whatsoever;

      (2)   Seeking to obtain prospective customers for application or purchase of goods or services of any type, kind, or character;

      (3)   Seeking to obtain prospective customers for incentives, credits, or rebates of any type, kind, or character; or

      (4)   Seeking to obtain subscriptions to books, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, and every other type or kind of publication.

   SOLICITOR. A person engaged in the act of soliciting, including hawkers, peddlers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise. Except that students 18 years of age and under who participate in solicitation activities for fundraising purposes only and persons exercising their first amendment rights, including the free exercise of religion, the freedom of speech or press, the right of assembly and not engaged in soliciting shall not be deemed to be solicitors.

   TRANSIENT MERCHANT. Any person, firm or corporation who engages temporarily in the business of selling and delivering goods, wares, or merchandise within the city, and, who, in the furtherance of such purpose hires, leases, uses or occupied any building, structure, vacant lot, motor vehicle, trailer or railroad car.

(Ord. 3328, passed 11-13-01; Am. Ord. 4178, passed 4-22-24)

§ 116.06 LICENSE FEE.

   The fees for licenses granted under the provisions of this suchapter shall be:

 

Licensee	Fee
Peddlers, solicitors or transient merchants	$100 per one calendar year

 

(Ord. 3328, passed 11-13-01; Am. Ord. 4178, passed 4-22-24)

§ 116.07 ADOPTION OF TRANSIENT MERCHANT ACT OF 1987.

   The city does hereby adopt by reference the Transient Merchant Act of 1987, cited as ILCS Ch. 225, Act 465. This Act shall regulate the conducting of business of itinerant merchants, solicitors and peddlers in the city.

(Ord. 3328, passed 11-13-01)

§ 116.08 LICENSE NOT TRANSFERABLE.

   License issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall not authorize any person or persons, except the identical person or persons named in said license to engage in business thereunder, and such license shall not be transferable.

(Ord. 3328, passed 11-13-01)