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CHAPTER 13
PEDDLERS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS
SECTION:
7-13-1:   Definitions
7-13-2:   Prohibited Activities
7-13-3:   Exceptions
7-13-4:   Penalty
7-13-1: DEFINITIONS:
   As used in this Chapter:
   "Transient Merchant" means any person who is engaged temporarily in the retail sale of goods, wares or merchandise, and in pursuit of such sales occupies any building, room, vehicle, structure or unoccupied or unimproved lot for the purpose of conducting such sales, without a valid business license from the Village of Orland Park, Illinois. (Amd. Ord. 5486, 3-2-20)
   "Itinerant Vendor" means any person who transports tangible personal property for retail sale who does not maintain an established office, distribution house, warehouse, service center or residence from which such business is conducted.
   "Peddler" means a person who travels about selling, bartering or exchanging small wares which he carries with him on his person or on a wagon, truck, push cart or moveable receptacle of any kind.
   "Hawker" means a person who shouts his wares, exhibits them for sale or approaches a person(s) not having any interest or intent to purchase. (Amd. Ord. 5486, 3-2-20)
7-13-2: PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES:
   Peddlers, hawkers, itinerant vendors and transient merchants are prohibited within the corporate limits of the Village of Orland Park.
7-13-3: EXCEPTIONS:
   This Chapter shall not apply to:
      (1)   Any person selling vegetables, fruit or perishable farm products at an established Village market or other location on the private property of a consenting owner;
      (b)   Any person delivering tangible personal property who is fulfilling an order for such property which was selected or placed by mail or other means; or
      (c)   Any person carrying samples of goods and taking orders for delivery at a later date (see Solicitors Chapter).
7-13-4: PENALTY:
   Any person, firm, corporation or entity who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects, refuses to comply with or who resists enforcement of any of the provisions of this Chapter, shall upon conviction be fined according to the fine schedule located in Appendix B for each offense.
(Ord. 2773, 9-5-95; Amd. Ord. 5103, 6-6-16; Amd. Ord. 5224, 10-2-17)