[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-1]
BUSINESS
A natural person, association, partnership, corporation, or group of persons formed for a temporary purpose.
PEDDLER
A natural person engaging in peddling on behalf of a "business" as defined herein.
PEDDLING
Engaging in any transient retail business within the Borough for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise or soliciting, canvassing, or taking of orders, whether such business shall be conducted from a fixed private or public location or by persons peddling from house to house or on the public highways or streets.
The singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-2]
No peddler shall engage in peddling or use the public ways without first having received from the Chief of Police or his designee an identity card, to be visibly displayed on the peddler at all times during which he is peddling.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-3]
Every business seeking to peddle shall apply to the Chief of Police or his designee for identity cards for all his peddlers and the Chief of Police shall issue the same after noting thereon the name, address, and description of the peddler, the person by whom employed (with the address of the same) and the period during which peddling will be conducted.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-4]
1. 
Every business seeking to peddle shall apply to the Chief of Police for a peddling license and shall supply at the time thereof evidence of any other valid county or state license which the law may require, except:
A. 
Farmers selling only their own produce.
B. 
Persons selling goods, wares, and merchandise donated by the owner thereof, the proceeds of which are to be applied to any charitable of philanthropic purpose.
C. 
Any manufacturer or producer selling only his own bread and bakery products, meat and meat products, or milk and milk products.
D. 
Real estate, insurance, or securities brokers, or employees thereof.
2. 
The application shall disclose the business's name, address, and description; the goods or service to be peddled; the duration of time for the peddling; previous criminal record, if any; the description of the vehicle to be used; and if required by the Chief of Police, fingerprints.
3. 
The application shall also disclose the name and address and other information as required by the Chief of Police for all peddlers who will actually engage in peddling within the Borough on behalf of the business making the application.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-5; as amended by Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 13-305]
No business required to be licensed shall engage in peddling until he has been issued a license, and no license shall be issued except that the public safety, morals, health, and welfare shall not be impaired thereby and that the following fees shall have been paid to the Chief of Police. All fees shall be established from time to time by resolution of Borough Council.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-6; as amended by Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 13-306]
A lost identity card and/or license may be reissued for the balance of the period of the license upon the payment of a fee as established from time to time by resolution of Borough Council. Upon expiration or earlier termination, the license and identity cards shall be returned to the Chief of Police and by him canceled and destroyed. Any license or identity card defaced or altered shall be invalid thereupon and not reissued. For the purposes hereof, a stolen license or identity card shall be deemed defaced or altered.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-7; as amended by Ord. 912, 3/24/1997]
1. 
It shall be unlawful for a licensed peddler:
A. 
To enter any residence or place of business uninvited, or to remain thereabout after requested to leave.
B. 
To fail to have an identity card and a license on hand and/or exhibit the same upon demand.
C. 
To represent or to imply that the identity card or the license is an endorsement by the Borough of the peddler or the goods or services being peddled.
D. 
To peddle on any Sunday or legal holiday (or any day observed as such) at all, and on any other day before 9:00 a.m. or after 4:00 p.m.
E. 
To peddle goods or services other than those licensed.
F. 
To peddle by hawking, crying, or displaying goods or services upon any public ways, or to use any device to advertise his/her presence or his/her goods and services, except that a person or business may engage in peddling on the public streets at a specific event sanctioned and approved by Borough Council.
G. 
To hawk or cry his/her wares upon any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public grounds in the Borough of Hatboro, except as provided in paragraph .F.
H. 
To park any vehicle upon any of the streets or alleys in the Borough of Hatboro for the purpose of sorting, rearranging, or cleaning any of his/her goods, wares or merchandise or of disposing of any carton, wrapping materials, or stock, wares or foodstuffs which have become unsalable through handling, age or otherwise.
[Ord. 791, 10/26/1987, § 81-11; as amended by Ord. 828, 12/18/1989, § 11; by Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 13-311; and by Ord. 1005, 5/23/2011]
Any business and/or peddler who shall violate any of the provisions hereof shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.