This chapter is for the purpose of establishing sidewalk vendor regulations that provides entrepreneurship opportunities while ensuring that the sale of food and merchandise within the public right-of-way is conducted in a manner that safeguards the health, safety, and welfare of the general public.
This chapter is not intended to apply to temporary/itinerant vendors, mobile food vendors that operate motorized vehicles or trailers registered with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, door-to door solicitors/peddlers, persons conducting yard sales at their residence, or special event vendors that sell merchandise at special events under an agreement with the organizer of that specific special event. These types of vendors are permitted under separate sections of the Visalia Municipal Code and are not subject to the requirements of this chapter.
This chapter is not intended to limit, restrict, or apply to protected rights of speech or expression in public right-of-ways, including but not limited to, passing out pamphlets or protesting in the public right-of-way.
(Ord. 2019-05 § 3 (part), 2019)