(a) The annual license fee to act as a hawker or peddler, if the person licensed travels without a motor vehicle, shall be ten dollars ($10.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of not more than one-half ton capacity, fifteen dollars ($15.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than one-half ton capacity, but not exceeding one ton capacity, fifty dollars ($50.00); if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than one ton capacity, but not exceeding two tons' capacity, one hundred dollars ($100.00); and if he travels with a motor vehicle of more than two tons' capacity, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00), plus one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each additional ton or fraction thereof over two tons' capacity; and the person licensed shall pay at the same rate of every motor vehicle so used. Such person shall carry his license in some conspicuous place in his vehicle or about his pack.
(1) When used in this section, the term "sale" means and includes both sales for money payment or for barter, and offers to make any such sale and offers to render any service or the rendering thereof.
(2) Any person who shall carry goods, wares or merchandise from place to place, either in person or by agent or employee, and sell, for delivery at the same time, any such goods, wares or merchandise to any purchaser, at wholesale or retail, and any person who shall solicit for the purpose of rendering any service, shall be deemed a hawker or peddler under this section.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person who sells any goods, wares or merchandise to be delivered in the future or to any of the following who offer immediate delivery of the goods, wares or merchandise being sold:
(1) Any person engaged within the Town in the business or calling of agriculture, horticulture or grazing, who sells, individually or collectively, the products derived form his business or calling.
(2) Any person engaged in the maintenance or operation of a retail merchandise store to exchange goods, wares or merchandise from such store for agriculture, horticulture or grazing products or to resell any such products received in due course of such business; nor to any other retail business concern, established and operating continuously for one year or more within the Town in the sale of any product or products over regular routes.
(3) Any wholesaler or jobber selling soft drinks or nonintoxicating beer for which he is duly licensed.
(4) Any person who sells petroleum products, ice, wood, meat, milk, ice cream, bread, cakes, pies and other bakery products, butter and eggs, manufactured, grown or produced by any such person and not purchased by him for resale.
(5) Any sales by societies, groups or organizations acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes.
(6) Any agent or salesman selling manufactured products, except green groceries and canned or bottled fruit products, produced by his employer, and who sells the same to retail dealers for the purpose of resale.
(7) Any person having a stock of goods or merchandise, or a manufacturing or processing plant kept or operating at a fixed situs in the Town and declared for taxation in the County where located, and using a vehicle over a fixed route for the purpose of selling or distributing at wholesale his merchandise, stock of goods or plant products.
(Passed 6-17-57)