Section
113.01 Purpose
113.02 Definitions
113.03 Exempt persons
113.04 Waiver
113.05 License requirement
113.06 Application: contents
113.07 Fees required
113.08 Expiration of license
113.09 Issuance
113.10 License
113.11 Restrictions
113.12 Regulations
113.13 Records
113.14 Hours of solicitation
113.15 Street vending
113.16 Loud noises and speaking devices
113.99 Penalty
This chapter is enacted for the purpose of regulating all transient vendors or itinerant merchants, commercial solicitors, peddlers and hawkers by requiring licenses to engage in such activity in order to prevent fraud, crime, undue annoyance and harassment and to protect the privacy, safety, health and welfare of the citizens of the town.
PARENT ORGANIZATION. The person, firm, corporation, proprietorship or partnership that the vendor is representing and/or is employed by. This definition includes the principal manufacturer and distributor of goods and the primary supplier of services being sold or offered.
TRANSIENT VENDOR or ITINERANT MERCHANT. Any person traveling by foot, wagon, automobile or other type of conveyance within the town, from place to place, residence to residence, or street to street for the sale of goods, wares, personal property or other merchandise or services for immediate or future delivery whether or not such vendor carries or presents such samples for sale.
(A) Members of religious or church organizations or not-for-profit organizations are exempt from this chapter provided that they are pursuing legitimate religious activities and provided that such activities are conducted in an orderly manner without annoyance or harassment to the persons solicited.
(B) Parochial, private or public school children attending school within the town, or members of a fraternal or veterans' organization or a not-for-profit organization, so long as that organization operates a chapter, post, lodge, camp or local organization within the town. Individuals under this division are exempt from this chapter only to the extent that they vend or solicit in conjunction with an authorized activity of the organization of which they are members or the schools they attend.
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