(A) If the Town Police Department determines that one or more of the following apply to a vendor and/or to any employee or agent of a vendor who applies for a license or who is involved in door-to-door solicitation, then the Town Police Department shall deny the application and/or revoke an issued license and/or the identification card(s) relating thereto, whichever action is applicable under the circumstances:
(1) Vendor submitted an application that contains materially false or misleading information;
(2) Vendor or any of vendor’s employees or agents was, within 15 years prior to the date of vendor’s application, convicted of a felony or misdemeanor crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft and/or moral turpitude;
(3) The vendor, or any of the vendor’s employees or agents, has violated this subchapter or has been charged with or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft and/or moral turpitude after the issuance of, but prior to, the expiration date of such person’s license and/or identification card;
(4) The vendor, or any of the vendor’s employees or agents, has failed to properly display his or her identification card while engaged in door-to-door solicitation; and/or
(5) Two or more written and sworn complaints have been delivered to the town’s Police Department regarding allegedly untruthful or illegal conduct concerning the vendor, or the vendor’s employees or agents, during his or her door-to-door solicitation.
(B) All license and/or identification card denials/revocations shall be in writing, shall state thereon the effective date of the denial/revocation and the reason for same and shall be served by U.S. certified mail or by personal service on the vendor at the vendor’s address as contained in the application.
(C) (1) Any vendor, within 20 days from the date of notice on which it receives notice of denial or revocation of a license, may, by written request delivered upon the town’s Police Department, within such time period, appeal the denial revocation to the Town Council. If a timely appeal is not made, the denial or revocation becomes final.
(2) If a timely appeal is made, the Council shall hear the appeal at a public hearing which shall begin no more than 20 days from the date of the receipt of the appeal request by the Town Marshal. The Council shall issue its written decision on the appeal no more than ten days from the ending date of the hearing thereon, which Council decision shall be final.
(D) No application, license or identification card fees shall be returned or refunded upon the revocation of a license and/or identification card issued pursuant to this section, all such moneys being deemed forfeited.
(Ord. 2015, passed 12-20-2005)