[Ord. 110A, 12/30/1969, § 1]
Every person whether principal or agent (excepting farmers selling
their own produce and retail peddlers or deliverers of dairy products)
is forbidden to solicit, hawk, or peddle any merchandise or any articles
of trade or solicit funds or monies or merchandise within the limits
of the Township of Stroud, unless and until a permit therefor is procured
as hereinafter provided.
[Ord. 110A, 12/30/1969, § 2]
Every person or organization so desiring to solicit, hawk, or
peddle shall first make application to the Township Secretary for
a permit to whom shall be stated the names or name, place of residence,
type of organization or kind of article or articles to be sold, period
of time desiring to solicit, hawk, or peddle; and, if other than a
charitable organization, such applicant shall present two photographs,
1 1/2 inches by 1 1/2 inches, of himself or herself.
[Ord. 110A, 12/30/1969, § 3]
The Township of Stroud shall thereupon, after payment of a fee
as hereinafter provided, issue, in duplicate, a permit, one copy to
be given to the applicant, and one copy to be filed in the Office
of the Township Secretary, upon each copy of which permit shall be
inscribed the names and addresses and places of residence, type of
article to be sold, duration of the permit, name of the principal,
if any there shall be, or the name of the charitable organization
and in the case of all other than charitable organizations there shall
be secured and affixed to each copy thereof one of the photographs
hereinbefore directed to be presented. The permit shall be valid only
for the period inscribed upon the permit as its duration.
[Ord. 110A, 12/30/1969, § 4]
Every permittee hereunder, soliciting, hawking, or peddling
within the limits of Stroud Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania,
shall, upon demand, produce for inspection the permit hereinabove
directed to be issued.
[Ord. 110A, 12/30/1969, § 5; as amended by A.O.]
In the case of nonprofit charitable organizations no fee will
be charged for the permit but all others shall pay a fee in an amount
as established, from time to time, by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
Provided in the event any person, firm, or corporation shall have
more than one agent soliciting, hawking, or peddling from the same
vehicle, that fee for such additional agent or agents shall be in
an amount as established, from time to time, by resolution of the
Board of Supervisors, for additional agent.
[Ord. 110A, 12/30/1969, § 6; as amended by Ord.
110B, 7/7/1971; and by A.O.]
Any person who shall violate the provisions of § 13-201 or § 13-204 hereof, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $20 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 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
