In this article, the singular shall include the plural and the
masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter. Certain terms
are defined as follows:
PEDDLER
Any person who shall engage in peddling, as herein defined.
PEDDLING
The selling or offering for sale of any goods, wares, services,
including financial services, damage or fire restoration services
or merchandise for immediate delivery, which the person selling or
offering for sale carries with him in traveling or has in his possession
or control, upon any of the streets or sidewalks, from house to house,
by visitation to private residences or by entering in or upon private
property within the Township.
PERSON
Any natural person, association, partnership, firm, organization
or corporation
SOLICITING
The seeking or taking of contracts or orders for any goods,
wares, services, including financial services, damage or fire restoration
services or merchandise for future delivery, or for subscriptions
or contributions, upon any of the streets or sidewalks, from house
to house, by visitation to private residences or by entering in or
upon private property within the Township, and shall further mean
the seeking or taking of contracts or orders for home or other building
repairs, improvement and alterations, and also orders or contracts
for any mechanical, electrical, plumbing or heating device, services
or equipment for houses or other building improvements or repairs
upon or from the places aforesaid within the Township.
SOLICITOR
Any person who shall engage in soliciting, as hereinabove
defined.
No license shall be issued under this article until the sum
as set forth from time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors
shall be paid to the Township Secretary, and it shall be for the use
of the Township. A separate application shall be filed and a separate
permit fee shall be paid by each person who shall actually conduct
the soliciting or peddling and shall apply where an employer desires
to secure licenses for his employees, agents or servants.
The license granted pursuant to this article shall be valid for 30 days after the date of such license and, upon the expiration of any license, if the person holding the same shall desire to continue or renew soliciting or peddling, he shall be required to file a new application for a permit and pay a new license fee. Such licenses may be issued, in advance, for consecutive thirty-day periods not exceeding two in number, upon payment, in advance, of the license fee for each thirty-day period provided in §
137-4.
Such license, when issued, shall state, inter alia, the products
to be sold or services to be rendered by the licensee. Every solicitor
or peddler shall at all times, when engaged in soliciting or peddling
in the Township, carry and prominently display such license upon his
person and shall exhibit it upon request to all police officers, Township
officials and citizens. No solicitor or peddler shall engage in selling
any product or service not mentioned on such license.
No person licensed as a solicitor or peddler under this article
shall engage in soliciting or peddling on any day of the week before
8:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m., or at any time on Sundays or Holidays
recognized by the Township. During the time of the year when Eastern
Standard Time is effective, the aforesaid hours shall be Eastern Standard
Time, and during the time of the year when daylight saving time is
effective, the aforesaid hours shall be daylight saving time.
No person licensed as a solicitor or peddler under this article
shall park any vehicle upon any of the streets, highways or alleys
of the Township in order to sort, rearrange or clean any of his goods,
wares, services or merchandise. No such person shall place or deposit
any refuse on any such streets, highways or alleys. No such person
shall maintain or keep a street or curbstone market by parking any
vehicle upon any street or alley in the Township for any longer than
necessary in order to sell therefrom to persons residing in the immediate
vicinity.
No person licensed as a solicitor or peddler under this article
shall occupy any fixed location upon any of the sidewalks of the streets,
highways, alleys or sidewalks of the Township for the purpose of soliciting
or peddling with or without any stand or counter.
The Secretary or his designee shall keep a record of all licenses issued under this article, and the Director of Public Safety for the Township, through the police department, shall supervise the activities of all holders of such licenses and shall have the authority to refuse an application or suspend or revoke a license as specified in §
137-11.
Any application may be rejected or any license issued under this article may be suspended or revoked at any time by the Manager or his designee upon proof being furnished to him that the application for the license contained false, misleading or omitted material information or that the applicant or licensee was ineligible for a license based on the criteria in §
137-4 above. Further, a license may be suspended or revoked for a person who is cited for any of the prohibited activities listed in §
137-12 below.
This article shall be enforced by the Police Department in an
action brought before a Magisterial District Justice in the same manner
provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure. Any person, firm or corporation who or
which violates or permits the violation of this article shall, upon
conviction in a summary proceeding, be punishable by a fine of not
more than $1,000 or by 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. Each section of this
article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.