(a) As used in this section, "sale" means both sales for money payment or for barter, and offers to make any such sale and offers to render any service or the rendering thereof.
(b) Any person who shall carry goods, wares or merchandise from place to place, either in person or by agent or employee, and sell, for delivery at the same time, any such goods, wares or merchandise to any purchaser, at wholesale or retail, and any person who shall solicit for the purpose of rendering any service, shall be deemed a "hawker" or "peddler" under this section.
(c) The annual license fee to act as a hawker or peddler, if the person licensed travels without a motor vehicle, shall be ten dollars ($10.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of not more than one-half ton capacity, fifteen dollars ($15.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than one-half ton capacity, but not exceeding one ton capacity, fifty dollars ($50.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than one ton capacity, but not exceeding two tons capacity, one hundred dollars ($100.00); and if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than two tons capacity, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), plus one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each additional ton or fraction thereof over two tons capacity; and the person licensed shall pay at the same rate for each and every motor vehicle so used.
(d) Such person shall carry his license in some conspicuous place in his vehicle or about his person.
(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who sells any goods, wares or merchandise to be delivered in the future; or to any of the following who offer immediate delivery of the goods, wares or merchandise being sold:
(1) Any persons engaged within this City in the business or calling of agriculture, horticulture or grazing, who sell, individually or collectively, one or more for the other or others, the products derived from their business or calling aforesaid;
(2) Any person engaged in the maintenance or operation of a retail merchandise store to exchange goods, wares or merchandise from such store for agricultural, horticultural or grazing products or to resell any such products received in due course of such business; nor to any other retail business concern, established and operating continuously for one year or more within this City in the sale of any products over regular routes;
(3) Any wholesaler or jobber selling soft drinks or nonintoxicating beer for which he is duly licensed by this City;
(4) Any person who sells petroleum products, ice, wood, meat, milk, ice cream, bread, cakes, pies, and other bakery products, butter and eggs, manufactured, grown or produced by any such person and not purchased by him for resale;
(5) Any sales by societies, groups or organizations acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes;
(6) Any agent or salesman selling manufactured products, except green groceries and canned or bottled fruit products, produced by his employer, and who sells the same to retail dealers for the purpose of resale;
(7) Any person having a stock of goods or merchandise, or manufacturing or processing plant kept or operating at a fixed situs in the City, and declared for taxation in the county where located, and using a vehicle over a fixed route for the purpose of selling or distributing, at wholesale, his merchandise, stock of goods or plant products.
(f) Any person exempt from a license as provided in this section shall obtain from the City Clerk a license receipt, without cost, showing that he is so exempt, which shall be effective for the period as provided for annual licenses, but to obtain such license receipt he shall make an affidavit and produce such other evidence as to the fact entitling him to such exemption as the City Clerk in his discretion may require, which shall be on a form to be prescribed by the City Clerk. (1975 Code Sec. 10-23)