(A) (1) Itinerant merchant (stationary location): $100 per location. A merchant, other than a merchant with an established retail store in the town, who transports an inventory of goods to a building, vacant lot, or other location in the town and who, at that location, displays, sells, or offers the goods for sale or provides services for a fee. A merchant who sells goods, other than farm products, in the town for less than six consecutive months is considered an itinerant merchant unless he or she stopped selling goods in the town because of his or her death or disablement, the insolvency of his or her business, or destruction of his or her inventory by fire or other catastrophe.
(2) Pursuant to G.S. § 66-251, an itinerant merchant must obtain written permission from the property owner in order to conduct business on property not owned by the merchant. Additionally, sidewalk vendors who sell food, beverages, or merchandise from a stand, motor vehicle, or from a person must obtain a temporary use permit from the town’s Planning Department.
(B) Peddler (mobile-non stationary location): $5 per person (foot); $15 per person (by vehicle/trailer). A peddler on foot is someone who carries the goods on them as they go door-to-door. A peddler by vehicle or pushcart is someone who goes door-to-door carrying the goods using one of those means. In general, a peddler is a person who travels from place to place with an inventory of goods, who sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail, who delivers the identical goods he or she carries with him or her or provides their services.
(C) Specialty market operator: $100 per location. A person, other than the state or a unit of local government, who rents space, at a location other than a permanent retail store, to others for the purpose of selling goods at retail or offering goods for sale at retail (example: flea market).
(Ord. 2016-186-FI, passed 7-14-2015)