(A) State or county license required. No person shall conduct business as a peddler or solicitor in the town limits without first having obtained the appropriate license from the state or Clark County, including the Health Department, that may be necessary, if the state or county issues a license for the activity.
(B) (1) Town license required. Except as otherwise provided for by this subchapter, no person shall conduct business within this jurisdiction as either a peddler or solicitor without first having obtained a license from the town.
(2) Exceptions.
(a) The license requirement shall not apply to a non-commercial advocate.
(b) No license shall be required of any person going from house to house, door to door, business to business, street to street, or other type of place to place movement for the primary purpose of exercising that person’s state or federal constitutional rights such as the freedom of speech, press, religion, political, or the like, except that this exemption may be lost if the person’s exercise of constitutional rights is merely incidental to a commercial activity.
(c) No license shall be required of any transient merchant operating at a town-sanctioned carnival, fair, festival, fundraiser, or other special event.
(d) No license shall be required of any transient merchant operating less than eight hours within a 24-hour period on a privately owned parcel with express written permission from the property owner operating.
(Ord. 2023-OR-005, passed 2-27-23)