It shall not be lawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any business as defined in this chapter or any sale as defined in this chapter, or operate or conduct a business as a transient merchant, handbill distributor, itinerant merchant, itinerant vendor, peddler, canvasser, solicitor as defined in this chapter, or operate or put into use any cigarette vending machine, juke box, vending machines or mechanical amusement device, or to use in connection with the foregoing any vehicle, premises, machine or device, in whole or in part, unless a license or a permit therefor is first procured and kept in effect at all such times as required by this chapter or any other law or ordinance of the Borough of Chesilhurst.
For the purposes of this chapter any person shall be deemed engaging in business and subject to the provisions of this chapter when he does one act of:
A. 
Selling any goods or service; or
B. 
Soliciting business or offering goods or services for sale or hire; or
C. 
Acquiring or using any vehicle machine or device or any premises in the Borough of Chesilhurst for business purposes.
The agents, servants, employees, or other representatives of corporations, partnerships, resident or nonresident individual natural persons, joint adventurers, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts or unincorporated groups shall be personally responsible for the compliance with this chapter by their principals and by the businesses they represent.
For a going-out-of-business sale or a removal of business sale or a fire or other altered goods sale no person shall be granted a license unless:
A. 
He has been the owner of a business as described in the application for a license hereunder for a period of at least six months prior to the date of the proposed sale; and
B. 
He has not held a similar sale, at the location stated in the application, within one year last past from the date of such application; and
C. 
It applied to only one business and is not conducted or advertised in cooperation or by participation with any other business; and
D. 
He shall file with the licensing officer a complete inventory of goods that are to be offered for sale.
In cases covered by § 303-5 preceding the license shall:
A. 
Authorize only one type of sale described in the application at the location named therein; and
B. 
Authorize only the sale of goods described in the inventory filed with the licensing officer and shall forbid additions or replacements; and
C. 
Continue for a period not exceeding three months from the date of granting of license and shall not be renewable, assignable or transferable.
The provisions of §§ 303-5 and 303-6 preceding shall not apply or affect:
A. 
Any person acting pursuant to an order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
B. 
Persons acting in accordance with their powers and duties as public officials.