A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, transient merchant, church, club, charitable institution, hawker or peddler to vend, sell or dispose of or offer to vend, sell, dispose of or display, any goods, wares, merchandise, produce or vegetables on any public walk, street, alley or anywhere within the City of Reading without registering with and receiving a permit from the City Codes Enforcement Office.
B. The Codes Enforcement Office is hereby authorized to grant revocable permits for the use of the sidewalks for sidewalk sales in the Commercial Core Zoning District upon the following terms and conditions. Registration shall be on a permit form approved by the City Council. When the Codes Enforcement Office has approved the issuance of a sidewalk sales permit, the applicant shall be issued a permit. The permit shall contain the information required on the application, the expiration date, and one of the photographs submitted with the application. The permit shall be carried by the applicant at all times when engaged in sidewalk sales and shall be exhibited for inspection to any person approached for purposes of sidewalk sales.