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(A) Each applicant who shows evidence of good character and who pays the fee provided for herein shall be furnished a certificate indicating that he or she has registered and showing the dates covered by the registration.
(B) Each person shall, at all times while soliciting or canvassing in the city, carry upon his or her person the registration certificate and the same shall be exhibited by the registrant whenever he or she is required to do so by any police officer or by any person solicited.
(Ord. 720, passed 2-24-1959)
The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to officers or employees of the city, county, state or federal government, or any subdivision thereof, when on official business, nor to solicitors for non-profit, civic and eleemosynary organizations soliciting funds for charitable or benevolent purposes.
(Ord. 720, passed 2-24-1959)
Any registration may be revoked by the Mayor or the Chief of Police because of any violation by the registrant of this subchapter or of any other ordinance of the city, or of any state or federal law, or whenever the registrant shall cease to possess the qualifications and character required in this subchapter for the original registration.
(Ord. 720, passed 2-24-1959)
(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
RETAIL PEDDLER.
Any person, either for himself, herself or as agent or solicitor for another person, who shall go about within the corporate limits of the city, from house to house, from place to place, or from customer to customer, and sell or offer to sell goods, wares or merchandise or vegetables, fruits or perishable farm products, by sale at retail and by delivery of the same to be made at the time and place of sale, or at any other place within the corporate limits of the city, or who shall occupy any stand for said purpose of sale on any public street, corner, sidewalk or other public property within the city. Provided, however, that the provision of this definition shall not be construed to apply to any person selling such goods, wares and merchandise of any description, or vegetables, fruits or perishable farm products, raised, produced, or manufactured by the individual undertaking to peddle the same; nor to newsboys peddling newspapers within the city.
SALE AT RETAIL.
Any sales to consumers and not to dealers and not for purposes of resale, either in the form in which purchased, or any prepared or manufactured form.
SALE AT WHOLESALE.
Sales to dealers, or persons, for the purpose of resale, either in the form in which purchased or any prepared or manufactured form.
WHOLESALE TRANSIENT VENDOR.
Any peddler, hawker, huckster, itinerant or casual vendors whether the same be persons, firms or corporations, who or which do not maintain within the city a bona fide place of business or establishment and there carry on their business in a generally permanent and continuous manner, throughout the year as compared with the manner in which like businesses engaged in the sale of like products are now generally carried on and conducted by persons, firms and corporations at established places of business within the city; and who or which go about within the city, from place to place, from store to store, or from market to market, and sell or offer to sell their goods, wares or merchandise, or vegetables, fruits or perishable farm products, by sale at wholesale and by wholesale delivery to be made at the time and place of said sale or at any other place within the city, or who or which shall occupy any stand for said purpose of sale and delivery on any public, street, corner, sidewalk or other public property within the city.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person firm or corporation, either as principal or agent, to engage in the business of retail peddler or wholesale transient peddler, in the city, without haying first obtained a license according to the classification of licenses issuable hereunder and in the manner hereinafter provided.
(C) The Mayor of the city shall, on the application for a retail peddler's or wholesaler transient peddler's license, issue such license to any such person or applicant authorizing him or her to peddle within the corporate limits of the city for the period therein applied for, on the payment of the said applicant of the following license fee:
(1) Where the applicant applies for a retail peddler's license and desires to carry his or her own goods for purposes of sale hereunder, for one day the license fee shall be $3; for one week, $15; for one month, $30 and for any period exceeding one month and not beyond the municipal fiscal year, $50.
(2) Where the applicant desires to peddle any merchandise by sale at retail within the meaning of this section with a horse, truck or vehicle of any nature, for one day the license fee shall be $5; for one week, $15; for one month, $25; and for any period exceeding one month and not beyond the municipal fiscal year, $50.
(3) Any applicant desiring to peddle under the meaning of this section by sale at retail, who shall occupy for such purpose any stand, tent or structure, on the public street, corner, sidewalk or other public property within the corporate limits of the city, shall pay a license fee as follows: $20 for the first week, $15 for the second week, and $10 for each succeeding week thereafter. After ten weeks no further license fee shall be required.
(4) Any applicant desiring to obtain a license, as a wholesale transient peddler within the meaning of the provisions of this section shall pay a license fee of $100.
(D) No license fee shall be required from any ex-soldier, sailor or marine; nor from any farmer peddling or selling the products of his or her own farm; nor from any other person from whom the city is prohibited by state or federal law from requiring a license fee.
(E) The Mayor may grant permission temporarily to any deserving poor or unfortunate citizen to peddle free or upon such terms as may be agreed upon, but in any event said permit issued by the Mayor shall not be for a period exceeding 30 days.
(Ord. 1612, passed 5-6-2003) Penalty, see § 115.99
(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
TRANSIENT VENDOR OF MERCHANDISE.
Any person, firm, association or corporation engaged temporarily in the retail or wholesale sale of goods, wares, fruits, vegetables, perishable farm products, or other merchandise of any other nature in any place in this city and who for the purpose of conducting such business occupies any lot, building, room, stand, shelf, counter, tent or structure of any kind. Provided that peddlers who are licensed as required by ordinance shall not be considered to be transient vendors of merchandise.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person, either as principal or agent, to engage in business as a transient vendor or merchandise in the city without first obtaining a license to do so.
(C) Any person firm or corporation desiring to engage in such business, shall file a written application in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 110, stating the applicant's name, residence, place where he or she intends to do business, and the commodity or merchandise to be sold or offered for sale.
(D) The fee for such licenses shall be $50 for each week. No license shall be issued for less than one week at a time, but it may be renewed from week to week.
(Ord. 1612, passed 5-6-2003; Am. Ord. 1716, passed 11-10-2009) Penalty, see § 115.99
PHOTOGRAPHERS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
FINISH. To describe, include and refer to all work and processes required to be done or used in reproducing, from any exposed photographic film or plate, a positive image or likeness of the person or object of whom the exposure was taken and of making one or more copies thereof and of fixing, toning, retouching, washing and trimming the photograph and material upon which the same is reproduced prior to delivery thereof to the purchaser.
ITINERANT PHOTOGRAPHER. Any person, firm or corporation who solicits the taking and selling of finished photographs for profit inn the city any who has no studio or other place of business equipped therefor within the city.
RESIDENT PHOTOGRAPHER. Any person, firm or corporation engaging in the business of or soliciting the taking and selling of finished photographs for profit in the city who maintains a studio or other place of business equipped therefor within the city for six months or more in any one year.
TRANSIENT PHOTOGRAPHER. Any person, firm or corporation engaging in the business of or soliciting the taking and selling of finished photographs for profit in the city who maintains a studio or other place of business equipped therefor within the city for less than six months in one year.
(Ord. 618, passed 6-22-1948; Am. Ord. 623, passed 9-28-1948)
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