(A) Permit required. It shall be unlawful for any person to go in or upon, or permit his or her representative to go in or upon, any private residence or premises in the city as solicitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant merchant, or transit vendor of merchandise, not having been requested or invited to do so by the occupants of the private residence or having secured their permission to do so for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, periodicals, or merchandise, or for the purpose of distributing, disposing of, peddling or hawking the same, without first obtaining a permit therefor as provided in this division.
(B) Exclusion. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale or solicitation of farm or dairy products by the producer or to organizations or representatives of organizations organized and operating exclusively for educational, benevolent, religious, fraternal, charitable, or civic purposes and not operating for profit and where such solicitation or sales are made without remuneration to the solicitor.
(C) Application.
(1) Any person desiring to engage in the business or practices set forth in § 13-86 shall file with the Chief of Police an application for a permit to do so. The application shall be in writing, under oath, and shall show the applicant’s name, age, fingerprints, current address and his or her place of residence and nature of employment during the preceding year, the address and nature of business of his or her employer or principal, if any, and shall specify in detail the goods, wares, periodicals, or other merchandise to be offered for sale. The application shall state whether or not the applicant has been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude and if so the nature of the crime and the place and time convicted. The applicant shall also furnish, at the time of filing his or her application, two photographs two and one-half inches by two and one-half inches in size, made within one year of the date of the application. The applicant shall give to the Chief of Police at the time of the filing of the application such other information requested as may be of assistance in passing upon the qualification of the applicant. If the application is filed by an employer, there shall also be filed a separate application for each solicitor giving the information set forth above as to the qualifications of the solicitor and the same shall be signed and sworn to by each solicitor.
(2) The Police Chief shall be given all the necessary time to do a background check on the applicant. At no time shall this exceed a period of ten working days.
(3) Upon completion of the background check, a permit shall be issued.
(D) Denial. If the applicant is denied, a permit then they shall have ten working days to file a petition with the Town Coordinator for presentation to the Board of Commissioners. The Board of Commissioners shall hear the appeal at the next regularly scheduled session and shall decide whether or not the permit is to be issued.
(E) Transference. The permit is non-transferable and shall be kept with the peddler at all times, and presented to the property owners upon request.
(F) Revocation. If it appears that the facts set forth in the permittee’s application for a permit under the provisions of this section are untrue, or if the applicant is convicted in a crime involving moral turpitude; or if he or she engages in businesses other than as set forth in his or her permit or fails to utilize the same in good faith and for the purposes issued; or if the permittee is convicted of the violation of any applicable provision of this code, state law, or city ordinances, rules, and regulations the permit shall be revoked by the Chief of Police. The applicant may, if he or she desires, appeal from the revocation to the City Council.
(Prior Code, § 8-1006) Penalty, see § 130.99