For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT. All persons, firms, and corporations, both as principals and agents, who engage in, do, or transact any temporary or transient business in this state, either in one locality or in traveling from place to place, offering for sale or selling goods, wares, or merchandise, and those who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease, or occupy any permanent or mobile building, structure, or real estate for the exhibition by means of samples, catalogues, photographs, and price lists or sale of such goods, wares, or merchandise.
(Prior Code, § II.5)
(A) Any person, individual, copartner, or corporation which grows the goods, wares, or merchandise that is sold or is offered for sale;
(B) A person who makes crafts or items by hand and sells them, or offers them for sale;
(C) A licensed auctioneer;
(D) A resident of the town in which the sale takes place, and who conducts a sale of tangible personal property, for no more than four days per calendar year;
(E) Any established school, civic, or not for profit organization; and
(F) A person who holds a registered retail merchant’s certificate.
(Prior Code, § II.5)
It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant to transact business in the town unless such transient merchant and the owners of any goods, wares, or merchandise to be offered for sale or sold, if such are not owned by the vendor, shall have first secured a license, and shall have complied with all other requirements as herein provided.
(Prior Code, § II.5) Penalty, see § 110.99
(A) Any transient merchant desiring to transact business in the town shall file application for a license with the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
(B) The application shall state the following facts:
(1) The name, residence, and post office addresses of the person, firm, or corporation making the application, and if a firm or corporation, the name and address of the members of the firm or officers of the corporation, as the case may be;
(2) If the applicant is a corporation, then there shall be stated on the application form the date of incorporation, the state of incorporation, and if the applicant is a corporation formed in a state other than this state, the date on which such corporation qualified to transact business as a foreign corporation in the state;
(3) A statement showing the kind of business proposed to be conducted, the length of time for which the applicant desires to transact business, and if, for the purpose of transacting such business, any permanent or mobile building, structure, or real estate is to be used for the exhibition by means of samples, catalogues, photographs, and price lists or sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, the location of such proposed place of business;
(4) A detailed inventory and description of such goods, wares, and merchandise to be offered for sale or sold, the manner in which the same is to be advertised for sale and the representations to be made in connection therewith, the names of the persons from whom the goods, wares, and merchandise so to be advertised or represented were obtained, the date of receipt of such goods, wares, and merchandise by the applicant for the license, the place from which the same were taken, and any and all details necessary to locate and identify all goods, wares, and merchandise to be sold; and
(5) Attached to the application shall be a receipt showing that personal property taxes on the goods, wares, and merchandise to be offered for sale or sold have been paid.
(Prior Code, § II.5)
At the time of filing the application, the applicant shall also file and deposit with the Town Clerk-Treasurer a bond with sureties to be approved by the Town Clerk-Treasurer in the penal sum of $750, or three times the value of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be offered for sale or sold as shown by the inventory filed, whichever sum is greater. The bond shall be forfeited and used for the benefit of any persons, firm, or corporation aggrieved by the action of the applicant, and is awarded a judgment as a result of a cause of action against the applicant.
(Prior Code, § II.5)
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