[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Port
Washington North by Ord. No. IX. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Noise — See Ch. 116.
A.
No person shall hawk, peddle, vend, sell or offer for
sale any merchandise or commodities, or give or offer to give in connection
with such hawking, peddling, vending or sale by himself or any other person
at that time or any other time in the streets and public places of the incorporated
village of Port Washington North, or by going from house to house therein,
any merchandise or commodities, nor shall any person except a person soliciting
sales in interstate commerce for a foreign business firm whose only activity
in New York State is such solicitation, solicit orders of goods, wares and
merchandise or other commodities, nor shall any such hawker, peddler, salesman
or solicitor leave samples or gifts of any goods, wares, merchandise or commodities,
either in the streets or public places of said Village or by going from house
to house therein without first having obtained permission therefor from the
Village Clerk.
B.
Said permission shall only be granted on application
made in writing to said Clerk, setting forth the name and address of the applicant,
his citizenship and the wares, goods, merchandise or commodities he proposes
to deal in, the locality in which he proposes to deal, the business firm or
other organization by whom he is employed or with whom he has contracted for
the purposes of the activities for which he seeks a license, and whether such
business firm or organization has been dissolved or enjoined or prohibited
from engaging in the activities for which a license is sought by any court
or governmental agency and setting forth any other matters required by the
Clerk in the discharge of his duty hereunder, including matters relating to
or properly affecting the applicant's fitness to conduct or his method of
conducting said business.
C.
If the Clerk shall find that the person so applying is
a proper person to conduct said business and in addition that the business
firm by which he is employed or with which he has contracted to perform the
activities for which he seeks his license has not been dissolved or enjoined
or prohibited by any competent court or governmental agency from engaging
in the activities for which a license is sought, he shall grant a license
permitting the applicant to carry on the business mentioned in said application,
upon payment to the Village Clerk of the license fee of $25.[1]
All licenses granted pursuant to this chapter shall expire on the last
day of May next following the granting thereof, unless sooner suspended or
revoked. All such licenses shall be revocable at any time by the Clerk, Mayor
or Board of Trustees, with or without notice, for any cause for which such
license might have originally been refused, whether or not such cause existed
at the time of the issuance of such license.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
therefor, be punished by a fine of not more than $250 and/or 15 days' imprisonment
for each and every offense; and, in addition thereto, such violation shall
constitute and is hereby declared to be disorderly conduct, and any person
violating the same shall be, and is hereby declared to be, a disorderly person
and may be punished accordingly.
