(a) No person licensed as a vendor shall demonstrate, sell or offer for sale or barter any goods, wares, merchandise, food, confection or drink upon any street or sidewalk or any other City owned property within the City except in accordance with all of the following provisions:
(1) No merchandise shall be displayed or sold except in the locations designated in the rules and regulations of the City Manager or his designee.
(2) No merchandise shall be displayed or sold in a manner that blocks, obstructs or restricts the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles in the lawful use of the sidewalks, streets or public places or ingress or egress to the abutting property.
(3) All merchandise shall be displayed or sold from portable tables, carts or containers as approved by the City Manager or his designee. Each vendor shall remove all merchandise, packaging, paper, display tables, carts or containers, or other materials brought to the location at the termination for sales each day.
(4) No vendor's table, cart, container or other appurtenances, paraphernalia, merchandise, supplies or sign age shall occupy an area more than three (3) feet in width and eight (8) feet in length. Food truck vendors must vend onto the sidewalk or open space which is not within the street.
(5) Each vendor during the period of selling shall keep the area within ten (10) feet of the location where the vendor sells or displays merchandise free from all litter and debris arising from the operations, including the litter which arises from action of customers in disposing of wrapping or packaging materials of merchandise sold by the vendor.
(6) Vendors shall at all times exercise reasonable care that their merchandise, packaging material, display equipment and other paraphernalia shall not create a safety or health hazard to customers or other persons using the public streets, sidewalks or public places, or to persons on or in abutting property.
(7) No street sales shall be conducted nor shall any display table, cart, container or other appurtenances be permitted on any public property between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. daily. Any other ordinance prescribing more restrictive hours shall prevail.
(8) No items of a pornographic nature shall be sold or displayed by street merchants.
(9) The playing of any radio, phonograph, or any musical instrument or device in such a manner or with such volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet comfort and repose of store owners, employees or patrons in the central vending district is prohibited pursuant to other provisions of the Codified laws of the City.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the distribution or the sale of newspapers on the sidewalks. (Ord. 15406. Passed 5-5-20.)