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Village of Pittsford, NY
Monroe County
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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Pittsford 3-14-1989 as Ch. 81 of the 1989 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Newspaper vending machines — See Ch. 130.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 144.
Transient retail merchants — See Ch. 189.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to pursue or exercise any of the following trades or occupations within the village without having first obtained a license therefor from the Mayor or his or her designated representative and paid the license fee as set forth from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees:
(1) 
Auctioneering.
(2) 
The doing of a retail business in the sale of goods of any description from canal boats, in the canals or from the lands by the side of such canals, and within the boundary lines thereof, within the limits of the village, except products of the farm and manufactured products of the forest.
B. 
Circuses, theaters or other exhibitions or performances are prohibited, except by permit of the Village Board of Trustees.
A. 
Criminal penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $250 or to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both.
B. 
Civil penalties; construal.
(1) 
Obedience to the provisions set forth herein may be enforced by criminal information for the penalties herein prescribed, as well as by prosecution of the offender as provided in Subsection A of this section, or by civil action for a penalty or by civil remedy at law or equity by way of injunction or otherwise to abate or prevent a violation of the provisions of this chapter.
(2) 
Neither a judgment in nor the pendency of a criminal prosecution for an alleged violation of the provisions of this chapter nor a judgment in the pendency of a civil action of law or in equity shall be a bar to the other form of proceeding.
(3) 
The imposition of a penalty for a violation of this chapter shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue, and the remedies herein provided for penalties and civil action to enjoin or abate a violation shall be cumulative.