CHAPTER 39: PEDDLERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND THE LIKE
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)
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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