A. It shall be the duty of the City Police Department to require any person peddling, or soliciting, and who is not known by such officer to be duly licensed, to produce the license, and to enforce the provisions of this chapter against any person found to be violating the same.
B. The Police Department shall have the authority to temporarily seize and suspend any peddler’s license issued pursuant to this chapter under the following circumstances:
1. The Police Department has reason to believe that the peddler, solicitor, or transient merchant’s license is being used to conduct business by a person other than to whom it is issued, with or without the licensee’s permission, unless the person to whom it was issued is on the same premises, and in immediate proximity to the person using the license, and indicates that the person using the license is his or her employee as defined by Internal Revenue Service Tax Code or Regulations.
2. The Police Department has reason to believe, based upon the totality of the circumstances that the peddler, solicitor, or transient merchant's license was obtained fraudulently.
3. The peddler’s license is defaced in such a way that the identifying information contained thereon is insufficient for the Police Department to determine that the person holding and using the license is the person identified thereon.
C. For purposes of this section, immediate proximity shall mean no more than 10 feet between the license holder and the license user.
(Ord. 15-1135, § 1 (part), passed 8-25-2015; Ord. 12-1087, § 12, passed 11-27-2012; Ord. 12-1070, § 2, passed 1-10-2012; Ord. 98-548, § 5, passed - -1998; Ord. 87-210, § 1 (part), passed - -1987)