(A) The Town Police Department shall provide to any person, upon request, a door-to-door vendor application form (application) to be completed by a vendor and processed by the Town Police Department. The application shall seek general information about the vendor, vendor’s business and the nature of the vendor’s proposed door-to-door solicitation. The application shall also require a vendor to list the name of every employee and agent who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation pursuant to a license issued to the vendor under this section, and to obtain from the Indiana State Police Department, and attach to the application, a copy of the limited criminal histories of the vendor and of each employee and agent of that vendor who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation. All completed applications shall be submitted to the town’s Police Department for review.
(B) A license and a non-transferable identification card shall be issued to a vendor upon completion of an application, confirmation that such vendor has no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of the application date for a crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft and/or moral turpitude, and such vendor has paid a license fee of $15 for a ten-day license or $90 for a 120-day license. Upon receipt of a license, a vendor must also purchase from the town’s Police Department, at the cost of $1 each, non-transferable identification cards for each employee and agent of vendor listed on vendor’s application and for whom the town’s Police Department has confirmed has no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of the vendor’s application date for a crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft and/or moral turpitude.
(C) The decision as to whether an application is approved or denied shall be made by the town’s Police Department within 20 days from the date the application is submitted.
(D) The vendor, and each of the vendor’s employees and agents, shall openly display upon his or her person an identification card issued by the town’s Police Department whenever engaging in door-to-door solicitation.
(Ord. 2015, passed 12-20-2005)