(A) A person deemed an itinerant merchant, peddler, solicitor or transient vendor shall apply and procure from the Police Department via the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, a town permit for the privilege of transacting such business, and shall pay the required permit fee as hereinafter set forth.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale or peddle wares upon the public streets or public parking lots of the town, or to engage in business as an itinerant merchant, peddler, solicitor or transient vendor anywhere in the town, without first having applied for and obtained a permit to do so from the Chief of Police or his or her designee. For the purposes of this chapter, ANY PERSON or EACH PERSON means an individual and shall be considered in the singular. Each person working for or acting as an agent or in any capacity for an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a company or a business of whatever nature or kind, must apply for and obtain a penult as set out herein.
(C) Any person who sells or offers to sell any wares from his or her possession, a cart, truck, automobile or other vehicle operated over and upon the streets and highways within the town, shall be deemed an itinerant merchant, peddler, solicitor or transient vendor within the meaning of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of farm products raised on the premises owned or occupied by the person, or his or her bona fide agent or employee selling the same.
(D) This chapter shall not apply to solicitation for charitable, civic, religious or patriotic purposes by persons who serve without compensation or remuneration; nor shall it apply to persons engaging in door-to-door advocacy of a religious, political or other cause where money or other valuable consideration is not being solicited; nor shall it apply to the distribution of religious or political handbills or pamphlets. Further, this chapter shall not apply to any person under the age of 18 years old who desires to offer a service only and who does so solely as a means of earning money for his or her own personal or family use on a short-term, temporary basis, such as and by example only, mowing lawns and raking leaves.
(E) This chapter shall not apply where town merchants and/or proprietors of stores display goods adjacent to their businesses for sale in front of their stores; nor shall this chapter apply to any individual, business or organization displaying goods for sale as part of a duly town-authorized festival or public event for which such goods are authorized to be sold.
(Ord. 14-O-313, passed 7-29-2014)