(a) Definition. Any person who carries goods, wares or merchandise from place to place, either in person or by agent or employee and offers to sell or barter, or actually sells or barters and delivers any of such goods, wares and merchandise to any purchaser, at wholesale or retail, shall be deemed a hawker or peddler under this section. Nothing in this section shall be construed as levying a license fee on an agent or traveling salesman of a manufacturer or wholesaler who may directly supply articles manufactured or handled by such manufacturer or wholesaler to customers engaged in retail merchandise at bona fide fixed and stationary places of business.
(b) License Fee. The annual license fee to act as a hawker or peddler, when the licensee travels without a motor vehicle, shall be ten dollars ($10.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of not more than one-half ton capacity, fifteen dollars ($15.00); if more than one-half ton capacity, but not more than one ton capacity, fifty dollars ($50.00); if more than one ton capacity, but not more than two ton capacity one hundred dollars ($100.00); if more than two ton capacity, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) plus one hundred dollars ($100.00) for every ton or fraction of a ton in excess of two tons. The person licensed shall pay at the same rate for each vehicle used and shall be issued as many certificates as there are vehicles used. All licenses issued hereunder shall be issued only on annual basis and the fee shall not be prorated.
(c) Display. The license certificate shall be carried in the vehicle. The licensee shall cause to be painted or stenciled in a conspicuous place on the left-hand side of the vehicle the number of his license and the words "Moundsville Hawker and Peddler" and the license year for which such license is issued, which information shall be in black letters on a white background and the whole thereof shall be at least eight inches by twenty inches in size.
(d) Exemptions. The following persons, in addition to those exempt under the provisions of Section 705.21 shall be exempt from the license required by this section:
(1) Any person engaged in the business or calling of agriculture, horticulture or grazing, who sells individually or collectively, the products derived from his business or calling.
(2) Any wholesaler or jobber selling soft drinks or nonintoxicating beer for which he is duly licensed under other provisions of this Code.
(3) Any sales by societies, groups or organizations acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes. (Passed 10-18-16.)