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Charter and Code of Ordinances of the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan
Charter and Code of Ordinances of the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
CHARTER
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3: ADVERTISING
CHAPTER 4: AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CHAPTER 5: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 6: RESERVED
CHAPTER 7: AMUSEMENT DEVICES
CHAPTER 8: ANIMALS
CHAPTER 9: BICYCLES
CHAPTER 10: RESERVED
CHAPTER 11: BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 12: BUSINESS REGISTRATION AND REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 13: CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER 13A: CARNIVALS
CHAPTER 14: ELECTIONS
CHAPTER 15: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 16: RESERVED
CHAPTER 17: EARTH CHANGES
CHAPTER 18: RESERVED
CHAPTER 19: FENCES
CHAPTER 20: FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: FOOD AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
CHAPTER 23: GARBAGE AND REFUSE
CHAPTER 24: RESERVED
CHAPTER 25: HUMAN RELATIONS
CHAPTER 26: JUNK YARDS AND AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARDS
CHAPTER 27: LAND DIVISION AND COMBINATION
CHAPTER 28: LIBRARY
CHAPTER 29: LICENSING OF BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 30: MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS
CHAPTER 31: NOISE
CHAPTER 32: RESERVED
CHAPTER 33: NUISANCES
CHAPTER 34: OBSCENITY
CHAPTER 35: OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 36: FALSE ALARMS
CHAPTER 37: PARKING AND STORAGE OF VEHICLES
CHAPTER 38: PARKS
CHAPTER 39: PEDDLERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND THE LIKE
CHAPTER 40: POLITICAL AND CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
CHAPTER 41: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
CHAPTER 42: RESERVED
CHAPTER 43: RECREATIONAL WATERS
CHAPTER 44: SCHOOLS
CHAPTER 45: SOLID WASTE REDUCTION
CHAPTER 46: RESERVED
CHAPTER 47: SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS
CHAPTER 48: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 48A: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER 49: TRAFFIC AND VEHICLE CODE
CHAPTER 51: VEGETATION
CHAPTER 52: VEHICLES FOR HIRE
CHAPTER 53: WATER, SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
ZONING ORDINANCE
SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
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APPENDIX
CHAPTER 39: PEDDLERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND THE LIKE
39-1. PURPOSE.
   To prevent fraud, crime, undue annoyance and harassment and to protect the privacy, safety, health and welfare of the citizens of Sterling Heights, all transient or itinerant merchants, commercial solicitors, peddlers and hawkers shall be licensed by the city and be subject to the regulations set forth herein.
(1978 Code, § 27-1; Ord. No. 262, § 1, 5-3-88)
39-2. DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ITINERANT MERCHANT. Any person traveling by foot, wagon, motor vehicle or other conveyance, from place to place, from house to house or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to consumers or who takes or attempts to take orders from consumers for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, books or magazines, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether he or she is collecting advance payments on such sales or not. Any person who solicits orders and, as a separate transaction, makes deliveries to consumers as part of an itinerant merchant scheme or design to evade the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed an ITINERANT MERCHANT. The word ITINERANT MERCHANT shall not include agents of utility companies or firms franchised by the city nor the operator of a vending unit licensed under Chapter 22, Article III of this Code, nor any person registered under Chapter 41 of this Code.
   PARENT ORGANIZATION. The person or organization that the itinerant merchant is employed by or represents, the principal manufacturer and distributor of goods and the principal provider of services being sold or for which solicited.
(1978 Code, § 27-2; Ord. No. 262, § 1, 5-3-88)
Statutory reference:
   Transient merchants, see M.S.A. §§ 19.691 et seq.; M.C.L. §§ 445.371 et seq.
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