No person shall engage in or carry on the business of billposter, itinerant vendor, peddler, transient dealer, sign painter, hawker or second-hand dealer without having procured a license to do so. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a sign painter who is a resident of the City, to any person selling agricultural produce of his own production, to the manufacturer of any article manufactured by him, to sales by sample only or to any person selling newspapers.
(1941 Code, Sec. 9-61.)