122.05 LICENSE FEES.

The following license fees shall be paid to the Clerk prior to the issuance of any license.

   1.   Solicitors. In addition to the application fee for each person actually soliciting (principal or agent), a fee for the principal of ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

   2.   Peddlers or Transient Merchants.

      A.   For one day               $   5.00

      B.   For one week            $   25.00

      C.   For up to six (6) months         $   100.00

      D.   For one year or major part thereof   $   125.00

122.06 BONDS REQUIRED.

   1.   Transient Merchants. Before a license under this chapter is issued to a transient merchant, an applicant shall provide to the Clerk evidence that the applicant has filed a bond with the Secretary of State in accordance with Chapter 9C of the Code of Iowa.

   2.   Surety Bond. Before a license under this chapter is issued, each principal shall post a bond, by a surety company authorized to engage in the business of insuring the fidelity of others in Iowa, in the amount of $1,000.00, with the Clerk, to the effect that the registrant and the surety shall consent to the forfeiture of the principal sum of the bond or such part thereof as may be necessary:

      A.   To indemnify the City for any penalties or costs occasioned by the enforcement of this chapter and

      B.   To make payment of any judgment rendered against the registrant as a result of a claim or litigation arising out of or in connection with such registrant’s peddling or solicitation.

Said bond shall not be retired until after a lapse of one year from the expiration of the license which it covers.

122.07 AGENT FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS.

Before the license is issued, the applicant shall first sign an appointment naming the Clerk as agent of the licensee for service of process in the event of claim or litigation against such registrant arising out of or in connection with any peddling or solicitation.

122.08 LICENSE ISSUED.

If the Clerk finds the application is completed in conformance with the requirements of this chapter, the facts stated therein are found to be correct and the license fee paid, a license shall be issued immediately.

122.09 DISPLAY OF LICENSE.

Each solicitor or peddler shall keep such license in possession at all times while doing business in the City and shall, upon the request of prospective customers, exhibit the license as evidence of compliance with all requirements of this chapter. Each transient merchant shall display publicly such merchant’s license in the merchant’s place of business.

122.10 LICENSE NOT TRANSFERABLE.

Licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter are not transferable in any situation and are to be applicable only to the person filing the application.