(A) Any person who sells or offers for sale from a cart, wagon, truck, automobile, railroad car or any other vehicle, operated or propelled over and upon the streets of the City, any fruits, vegetables, garden produce, butter, eggs, cheese, game, fish, meat, live or dressed poultry or any other produce, coal, coke, Christmas trees or commodities or merchandise of any kind and description to any person engaged in the business of the resale at retail or wholesale of such products shall be deemed an itinerant dealer and shall pay an annual license fee in the amount specified in Section 868.01 for each vehicle or location used.
(B) The license fee required by subsection (A) hereof shall not apply to the bona fide sale of produce on the streets by hawkers and peddlers who are otherwise regulated by Section 848.02 or to farmers and others selling any products of their own raising or manufacture. However, any person selling products of his own raising or manufacture shall register his name and address with the Mayor and shall furnish a statement noting the exact location of his farm or place of produce and stating that he is a farmer or person selling produce of his own raising or production. Upon registration and the filing of such statement, the Mayor shall furnish such person with two metal plates bearing the registration number, the year for which issued and the term "Registered Farmer or Producer, Lima, Ohio, No. _________," giving in the blank space the number of such registered dealer. The fee for a registered farmer or producer desiring an itinerant dealer's license shall be the amount specified in Section 868.01, paid annually.
(1956 Code Sec. 579.05) (Ord. 210-17. Passed 9-11-17.)