From and after the enactment hereof, it shall be unlawful for any person not exempted by §
298-6 hereof who is not the holder of a valid and unexpired license issued pursuant to this chapter to engage in selling, purchasing or soliciting the sale or purchase of food, printed matter, services, goods, wares or merchandise of any description, or in soliciting contributions, gifts or pledges of money or any other thing of value, or to engage in making surveys or distributing samples by visitation to private homes or residences or on the public streets or highways of West Bradford Township.
Every person to whom a license has been issued hereunder shall,
in the carrying on of his business or activities in the Township,
comply with the following rules of conduct:
A. The licensee shall carry the licensee's license card at all
times and exhibit it upon request to any peace officer or any person
upon whom the licensee shall call or with whom the licensee shall
talk in carrying on the licensee's licensed activities.
B. The licensee shall not permit any other person to have possession
of the licensee's license card and shall immediately report its
loss to the Township Secretary. The licensee shall not cause or permit
the licensee's license card to be altered or defaced.
C. The licensee shall not enter or attempt to enter any dwelling house
without invitation or permission of the occupant and shall immediately
leave any premises upon request.
D. The licensee shall not represent the licensee's license card
to be an endorsement of the licensee or of the licensee's goods
or services or of the licensee's principal or employer.
E. The licensee shall immediately surrender the licensee's license
card upon revocation of the licensee's license as hereinafter
provided.
Any license hereafter issued may be revoked by the Board of Supervisors upon the failure of the licensee to comply with the standards of conduct established by §
298-3 hereof or upon ascertainment that the licensee has made any false statement in the licensee's application for license hereunder. Furthermore, a license may be revoked by the Board of Supervisors in the event that it comes to the attention of the Township that the licensee has been convicted of any felony convictions or misdemeanor convictions involving dishonesty, deceit, fraud, theft, sexual offenses, or crimes of violence in the past 10 years, and such conviction has been confirmed. Notice of revocation shall be given by written notice personally served or sent by registered mail to the address designated for this purpose in the application for license.
Any person whose license has been revoked shall be entitled
to appear, with counsel if such person so desires, before the Board
of Supervisors at a regular or special meeting and be heard on behalf
of a request for reinstatement of such person's license.
The following persons are exempted from the licensing requirements
of this chapter:
A. Persons soliciting contributions on behalf of organizations or nonprofit
corporations exempted from the provisions of or duly registered pursuant
to 10 P.S. § 162.1 et seq., Solicitation of Funds for Charitable
Purposes Act, as amended, who, while soliciting, are possessed of
a card or other written evidence of their appointment or authority
to solicit for said organization or corporation.
B. Farmers engaged in selling only the produce of their own farms from
a truck or other vehicle.
C. Persons who have been licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to engage in an activity described in §
298-1 hereof when so engaged, including, without limitation, real estate, insurance or securities brokers and salespeople.
D. Authorized persons carrying satisfactory identification engaged in
making surveys or collecting information for government or any agency
thereof. Also exempt shall be authorized persons carrying satisfactory
identification engaged in making surveys or collecting information
for any bona fide educational or quasi-governmental agency, if such
activity has previously been approved by the Board of Supervisors.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.