As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
CANVASSER or SOLICITOR
A person who goes from place to place, house to house or
person to person selling or taking orders for or offering to sell
or take orders for goods, wares, merchandise or any article for future
delivery or for services to be performed in the future or for the
making, manufacturing or repairing of any article or thing whatsoever
for future delivery or for the solicitation of money for any purposes
whatsoever.
The purpose of this chapter is to prevent unfair competition,
dishonest business practices and fraudulent solicitation by the regulation
of canvassers and solicitors.
[Amended 8-4-1997 by Ord.
No. 97-2479]
An application fee as set forth in Chapter
240, Fees, is to be paid at the time of filing the application to cover the cost of investigation of the facts stated therein.
Licenses issued shall be consecutively numbered. The license
shall contain blank spaces for writing in the name of the licensee.
The license issued shall not authorize any person, except the
designated person named in said license, to engage in the business
thereunder. Said license shall not be transferable from the person
to whom issued to any other person.
Every person holding a license issued under this chapter shall
be required to carry the license with him while engaged in the business
licensed.
Any license issued hereunder may be suspended by the Police
Department for any infraction or violation of the terms of the license
or of any Township ordinance, state or federal statute or falsification
in applying for a license. The suspension shall become effective immediately
and shall state that opportunity for a hearing will be given at a
time, within 16 days from date of notice, before the Police Department,
which, upon a finding of such a violation, may revoke the license,
and in event of failure of the licensee to appear, the license shall
automatically be revoked and canceled.
There shall be kept in the office of the Police Department the
necessary books for recording the time the application for license
is received, whether new or renewal, type of license, name of licensee,
regular number of blank form, when the application was approved by
the Chief of Police, the amount of fee received therefor and the date
when the license was issued.
This chapter shall not affect any person engaged in the delivery
of goods, wares, merchandise or other articles or things in the regular
course of business to the premises of persons ordering or entitled
to receive the same.
[Amended 8-22-1988 by Ord. No. 2063; 5-1-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-2876]
Any person adjudicated as having violated any provision of this article shall be subject to the penalties in Chapter
1, General Provisions, §
1-4, of this Code.