No person, firm or corporation shall distribute or cause the distribution upon the streets or other public places of the City or from house to house, as principal, agent or employee, of any samples of proprietary or other medicines or of any gums, candies or confections, salves, fluids, food products, soaps, powders, pastes or any other substance or article whatever without first obtaining a license therefor for which the sum as provided in Chapter
175, Fees, shall be paid.
All licenses shall be numbered consecutively, shall expire one
year from the date of issue and shall be nontransferable. Each such
license shall bear, in addition to its number, the name and address
of the licensee and the date of its issue and expiration. Each such
license shall also contain a statement that a separate permit must
be procured from the Health Commissioner for each kind of sample to
be distributed.
This article shall not apply to the distribution of printed
matter, which is subject to the provisions of other ordinances of
the City.
[Amended 12-9-2003, effective 12-19-2003]
Any license issued under this article may be canceled and revoked
by the Commissioner of Permit and Inspection Services for good cause
upon notice to the licensee and after an opportunity for him to be
heard.