(A) Any vendor who desires to engage in door-to-door solicitation shall first obtain from the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office a non-transferable door-to-door solicitation license (“license”) permitting such activity by vendor and/or by vendor’s employees and agents.
(B) The city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office shall provide to any person, upon request, a door-to-door vendor application form (“application”) to be completed by a vendor and processed by the city’s Clerk- Treasurer’s office. The application shall seek general information about the vendor, vendor’s business and the nature of vendor’s proposed door-to-door solicitation. The application shall also require a vendor to list the name of every employee and agent who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation pursuant to a license issued to the vendor under this section, and to obtain from the State Police Department and attach to the application a copy of the limited criminal history of the vendor and of each employee and agent of same who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation. All completed applications shall be submitted to the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office for review.
(C) (1) A license and a non-transferable identification care shall be issued to each employee by the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office upon such vendor’s completion of an application, confirmation that such vendor and employees have no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of the application date for a crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft and/or moral turpitude, and such vendor has paid the following license fees for each employee who will be involved in door-to-door soliciting:
One-day license | $15 |
One-week license | $25 |
One-month license | $125 |
One-year license | $300 |
(2) Upon receipt of a license, a vendor must also purchase from the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office, at the cost of $1 each, non-transferable identification cards for each employee and agent of vendor listed on vendor’s application and for whom the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office has confirmed has no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of vendor’s application date for a crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft and/or moral turpitude.
(D) The decision as to whether an application is approved or denied shall be made by the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office within ten business days from the date the application is submitted to the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office for processing.
(E) Vendor, and each of vendor’s employees and agents, shall openly display upon his or her person an identification card issued by the city’s Clerk-Treasurer’s office whenever engaging in door-to-door solicitation. When requested, identification cards shall be presented to a police officer of the city or any person.
(F) Subject to earlier revocation, pursuant to this section, a license, as well as any identification card(s) issued therewith, shall be valid for exactly one day, exactly one week, exactly one month, or exactly one year as applicable, from the date the license or identification card was issued, and shall thereafter immediately expire and become null and void.
(Prior Code, § 46-22) (Ord. 19-31, passed 9-9-2019)