[Adopted 11-28-1930 as Ord. No. 364]
[Amended 2-20-1997 by Ord. No. 1430]
Hereafter every person, firm or corporation,
whether principal or agent, entering into, beginning or desiring to
begin transient retail business in the City for the sale of any goods,
wares or merchandise whatsoever, whether the same shall be represented
or held forth to be bankrupt, assignees or about to quit business
or of goods damaged by fire, water or otherwise, shall take out a
license for the same from the Mayor of said City, which license shall
be as set forth in the City of Butler Fee Schedule adopted from time
to time by resolution of the City Council[1] and shall be renewed monthly during the continuance of
said sale.
Any person, firm or corporation who has not
been engaged bona fide in a like business within the City of Butler
for a period of one year and who, on beginning business, refuses to
file with the Mayor an affidavit of intention to continue in business
in Butler for a period of one year and exhibits a bona fide lease
for a term of one year of the place where he intends to conduct said
business shall be deemed a transient retail merchant within the meaning
of this article.
The provisions of this article shall not relate
to a judicial sale conducted by a Sheriff, Constable or Trustee in
bankruptcy.
[Amended 2-20-1997 by Ord. No. 1430]
Any person, firm or corporation violating the
provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof before a
District Justice, be subject to a fine in the sum of not more than
$300 and costs of prosecution and, in default of the payment of said
fine and costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned in the county jail
for a period not exceeding 90 days.
