In addition to the rules applicable to all sidewalk vendors, the following rules shall specifically apply to roaming sidewalk vendors:
(A) Roaming sidewalk vendors shall remain mobile and may not stand or park at any specific location or place for more than ten minutes, unless the vendor is otherwise stopped as necessary to complete a transaction(s) at the request of a bona fide purchaser(s) that approached the roaming vendor while stopped.
(B) Roaming sidewalk vendors are not permitted to knock on doors of homes or businesses to vend under a sidewalk vendor permit. Such attempts at peddling or soliciting shall be considered door-to-door sales and require a separate type of permit under the Tulare Municipal Code § 5.24.
(C) Sidewalk vendor permits issued by the City of Tulare only allow for vending on publicly owned right-of-ways, as limited by this chapter. Roaming sidewalk vendors are not permitted on private property without the permission of the property owner and must meet all underlying zoning requirements to operate on private property.
(D) Roaming sidewalk vendors are permitted in areas zoned exclusively for residential use, but hours of operations are limited to between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and one hour prior to sunset or 7:00 p.m., whichever is earlier.
(E) In order to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of pedestrians, mobile carts used by roaming sidewalk vendors are not permitted to be utilized as a cook top for food preparation when the food being prepared requires the cooking or heating of food in order for it to be consumed.
(Ord. 19-07, passed 11-19-2019)