(A) As used in this section, the term HAWKER and PEDDLER means and includes door-to-door, street-to-street, place-to-place or temporary vendors of sales or service without a fixed, determined and permanent locations within the county at which he or she transacts his or her business, carries on his occupation or practices his or her profession and includes but is not limited to persons commonly referred to as peddlers, solicitors, hawkers or canvassers.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to hawk, peddle or sell from house to house or in the streets of this city, any dry goods, notions or other articles without first having obtained from the City Clerk a license therefore.
(C) The City Clerk shall issue the license upon the payment of a license fee which shall be in the amount as the City Council may determine from time to time by resolution. Provided, that before any license hereunder may be issued to a nonresident of the city, he or she shall give bond to the city in the amount of as the City Council may determine from time to time by resolution which shall be approved by the City Attorney as to form and legality, and shall be conditioned on the license conforming to the laws of the state and the provisions of this code and other ordinances of the city relating to hawkers and peddlers and further conditioned on full compliance with all material oral or written statements and representations made by the seller, his or her agents or representatives with reference to merchandise sold or offered for sale and on faithful performance under all warranties made with reference thereto.
(D) This section shall not apply to any sale under court order, nor to any bona fide auction sale, nor to newsboys, nor to a sale at wholesale to a retail dealer in the articles sold, nor to the sale of farm or garden products by the person producing the same, which production shall be proven by the vendor, nor sales or admissions by local school students to a school function. Nor shall this section apply to solicitations for philanthropic/religious; and educational charitable causes if the following procedure has been accomplished:
(1) Sworn application has been made to the city showing name of organization, its purpose, it officers and directors, period of solicitation and solicitor’s form of remuneration; and
(2) The city has investigated and found those statements true and for charitable purpose and therefore issued a permit without charge.
(1973 Code, § 15-18) (Ord. 338, passed 4-11-1977; Ord. 391, passed 7-27-1987) Penalty, see § 10.99