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GENERAL PROVISIONS
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
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)
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)
Every person licensed under this subchapter shall have with him/her while engaged in such business the license received by him/her from the City Clerk and shall produce the same at the request of any city official or at the request of any individuals within the city to whom he/she is exhibiting his/her goods or selling or attempting to sell the same.
(Ord. 3328, passed 11-13-01)
(A) No person licensed under the provisions of this subchapter shall, within the city, call attention to his/her business nor to the goods, wares or merchandise which he/she is selling or offering for sale by crying them out, by blowing a horn, by ringing a bell or by any loud or unusual noise.
(B) Exceptions. This subchapter shall not apply to sales made by commercial travelers or selling agents in the course of business with bona fide dealers, nor bona fide sales of articles by sample, for delivery at a future date, nor sales conducted pursuant to statute or by order of any court, nor to bona fide auction sales conducted by an auctioneer duly licensed under the statutes of the State of Illinois, nor to persons selling or peddling the products of the farm or garden cultivated by him/her.
(Ord. 3328, passed 11-13-01)
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