(A) For purposes of this section, the term ITINERANT BUSINESS shall be defined to mean any person or entity which passes through the city temporarily for the purpose of conducting a business, trade, occupation, or profession for gain or profit which involves the buying, selling, or exchanging of goods or services; these businesses do not have a permanent business site within the city and conduct business on or beside public rights-of-way, public parks, fairgrounds, parking lots, or other public areas, on sidewalks, roadways, vacant lots, in tents, temporary structures, or other outdoor areas, or door-to-door, and include such businesses, by way of example, as door-to-door salespersons, itinerant merchants, the sale of “wholesale” or “close-out” items from trucks, vans, trailers and the like, peddlers, the sale of items from hotel or motel rooms, circuses and carnivals, hucksters, solicitors, traveling photographers, and amusement companies. Each itinerant business shall prior to the commencement of such business within the city advise the city’s finance department of the dates in the present calendar year during which it will conduct its business within the city and then procure a business license from the city at a cost of $250 for the first three of such dates and an additional $50 for each date thereafter up to a maximum of $500, which license shall entitle the itinerant business to transact such business within city limits for and during the dates so specified. No such business license shall extend beyond the close of the calendar year during which it was obtained, and each license shall bear the dates during the calendar year during which the itinerant business is authorized to conduct business within the city pursuant to the license. Should an itinerant business desire to conduct business within the city during any subsequent calendar year, it must renew the business license for such calendar year in accordance with the foregoing provisions. The fee shall be in lieu of the annual net profits occupational license tax imposed in § 110.03(A)(2).
(B) The foregoing provision in this section notwithstanding, however, an itinerant business conducting business within the city at a function or event put on by the city or at a fundraising function or event put on by a religious organization, a charitable organization, an educational institution, or a civic organization shall not be required to procure a business license as to its participation in such a function or event, and the entity putting on the function or event shall be entitled to retain such event fee as it may assess to the itinerant business. Such entity, however, shall itself be required to obtain from the city’s finance department a business license for each such event at a cost of $100, and such fee shall be in lieu of the itinerant business license fees as would otherwise be payable by each individual itinerant business.
(Ord. 07-40, passed 12-14-07; Am. Ord. 12-30, passed 9-11-12)