(a) When used in this section, "itinerant vendor" means all persons who engage or conduct within the City, either in one locality, or in travelling from place to place, a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise; and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, use, lease or occupy either in whole or in part, a room, building or other structure, or who use, lease or occupy for such purposes a room in any hotel or lodging house for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise; and the person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this section by reason of association temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer, or by conducting such temporary or transient business in connection with or as part of the business of, or in the name of, any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales made to persons by commercial travelers or selling agents in the usual course of business, nor to bona fide sales of goods, wares or merchandise by sample for future delivery; nor to hawkers or peddlers in the streets, roads or highways, from packs or vehicles; nor to persons selling meat or products of a farm, garden or dairy; nor to any sales of goods, wares or merchandise on the grounds of any agricultural association during the continuance of any fair held by such association; nor to any sales by societies acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes; nor to judicial sales directed by law or under the orders of any court; nor to the sales of the common necessities of life in any public market place.
(b) No itinerant vendor shall advertise, represent or hold forth a sale of goods, wares or merchandise as a bankrupt, insolvent, assignee, trustee, estate, executor, administrator, receiver, attorney, manufacturer's wholesale or closing-out sale, or a sale of any goods damaged by smoke, fire, water or otherwise, unless before so doing he states in writing, under oath, to the City Clerk at the time he makes application for a license hereinafter provided for, all the facts relating to the reason and character of such special sale as advertised, held forth or represented, including a statement of the names of the persons from whom such goods, wares or merchandise were purchased, and the date of the delivery of the same to the person applying for license; the place, if any, where such goods, wares or merchandise were previously exposed for sale, and such details as are necessary to exactly locate and fully identify all the goods, wares and merchandise proposed to be sold. The itinerant vendor shall also include in the statement the name and residence of the owner in whose interest the business is conducted, to be kept on file in the office of the City Clerk, and a record shall be kept by the City Clerk of all such statements, in convenient form and open to public inspection. (1947 Code §17.36; Ord. 0-1061. Passed 1-28-03.)
(c) Any vendor who registers to sell any item at the Parkersburg Public Market (Farmers'), shall, prior to participation in the market, file a vendor application with the City of Parkersburg. The vendor shall list business/farm name and contact information for farm/home/office as well as identify all goods, wares, and merchandise proposed to be sold. Vendors shall register each year with the City of Parkersburg and there will be no charge for this license. Only vendors selling at the designated area known as the Parkersburg Public Market shall not be charged a License fee. Under this license, the vendor may only sell at the designated area known as the Parkersburg Public Market. Any other location shall require a separate License and the payment of the appropriate fee as detailed herein.
(Ord. 0-1307. Passed 6-24-08.)
(d) The annual license fee to carry on the business of itinerant vendor shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00), and no such license shall be issued or such license tax assessed for any period of less than one year.
(e) Every itinerant vendor who sells or exhibits for sale, at public or private sale, any goods, wares or merchandise without first obtaining a license and in all other respects complying with the provisions of this article and Article 701, or who makes any false statement in connection with obtaining the license, or who fails to comply with the requirements of any of the sections of this article and Article 701, and every person, whether principal or agent, who, by circular, handbill, newspaper or any other manner advertises such sale, as herein described, before proper licenses are issued to the vendor, and before he has complied with the provisions of this article and Article 701, shall be guilty of a violation of this article and shall be punished accordingly.
(1947 Code §17.36; Ord. 0-1061. Passed 1-28-03.)