(a) Every huckster, itinerant vendor or other person who sells or offers for sale goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables, other commodities for home consumption or other goods, upon the public streets, alleys or other public places in the City, shall, if the products or goods are conveyed or offered for sale by the person in or from a cart, automobile, truck, wagon or other vehicle, procure two metal signs, the size and design of which shall be determined by the Director of Public Safety from time to time, upon which shall be inscribed or printed the words "Vendor No. " and the year of the issue. The metal signs issued each year shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with number one, and the metal signs issued or delivered to any person to be used in connection with the same cart, wagon, truck, automobile or other vehicle shall bear the same number. The metal signs shall not be transferred or assigned. Every grantee of the metal signs shall fasten or cause to be fastened securely by each corner thereof one sign on the outside of each side of his or her cart, wagon, automobile or other vehicle used by him or her in the business, and the signs shall remain fastened and conspicuously displayed at all times while the cart, wagon, truck, automobile or other vehicle is being used in the business. No person, other than the grantee of the metal signs or his or her agent or employee, shall make any use of the same.
(b) At the time of the issuance of the itinerant vendor's license by the Director of Public Safety, the Director shall issue the metal signs. The right to use the metal signs shall expire with the expiration of the itinerant vendor's license.
(c) Each grantee shall, upon discontinuing or abandoning the business, or upon expiration of the itinerant vendor's license, return the metal signs previously issued or delivered to him or her to the City, or shall furnish the City a good and satisfactory reason for his or her failure to do so. In case the metal signs hereinbefore described are lost or become so obscured for any cause that they may not be easily read, the grantee shall secure new signs and pay a charge of eight dollars ($8.00) for such new signs, and no grantee of signs shall continue the use of the same when, for any reason, they have become so obscured as not to be easily read.
(d) The Director of Public Safety shall keep an accurate record of all metal signs issued and delivered, in a book to be specially kept for that purpose, together with the name, the business and home address of the grantee and his or her personal description for identification.
(Ord. 318-91. Passed 1-27-92; Ord. 125-99. Passed 7-6-99.)