It shall be unlawful for any peddlers, canvassers or solicitors as defined in §
168-2 of this chapter to engage in any such business in Colts Neck Township without having first obtained a license therefore in compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
CANVASSER or SOLICITOR
Includes any person, whether a resident of Colts Neck Township
or not, who goes from house to house, from place to place or from
street to street, soliciting or taking or attempting to take orders
for sale of services, goods, wares or merchandise, including magazines,
books, periodicals, photographs or personal property of any nature
whatsoever for future delivery or for service to be performed in the
future, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for
sale a sample of the subject of such order or whether or not he or
she is collecting advance payments on such orders. Such definition
shall include any person who for himself or for another person, firm
or corporation, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, motor
vehicle, trailer, structure, tent, railroad box car, boat, hotel,
inn or motel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or other place in
Colts Neck Township for the primary purpose of exhibiting samples
and taking orders for future delivery.
PEDDLER
Includes any person, whether a resident of Colts Neck Township
or not, who goes from house to house, from place to place or from
street to street, conveying or transporting goods, wares or merchandise
or offering or exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering
articles to purchasers.
The terms of this chapter shall not be held to include the acts
of persons selling personal property at wholesale to dealers in such
articles, persons under the age of 16 years, persons distributing
circulars or any other matter not relating or pertaining to commercial
activities. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be held to prohibit
any sale required by statute or by order of any court.
Every person to whom a license is issued under the terms of
this chapter shall be governed by the following rules and regulations:
A. All circulars, samples or other matter shall be handed to an occupant
of the property and not left on or about the same.
B. No person subject to the provisions of this chapter shall canvass,
solicit or distribute circulars or other matter or call from house
to house on any day later than 9:00 p.m. prevailing time.
C. No person subject to the terms of this chapter shall enter or attempt
to enter the house of any resident of Colts Neck Township without
an express invitation from the occupant of the house.
D. No person subject to this chapter shall conduct himself in such manner
as to become objectionable to or annoy an occupant of any house.
E. At all times that a person is engaged in the business licensed under the provisions of this chapter, the badge as provided for in §
168-6B shall be conspicuously worn on the front of the licensee's outer garment.
F. Ice cream vendors may park in a valid on-street parking area or public
property while engaging in sales but shall not park in a stationary
location for longer than 10 minutes while performing a sale.
No licensee, nor any person in his or her behalf, shall shout,
cry out, blow a horn, ring a bell or use any sound-amplifying device
upon any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public places of the
township or upon private premises where sound of sufficient volume
is emitted or produced therefrom to be capable of being plainly heard
upon the streets, avenues, alleys, parks or other public places, for
the purpose of attracting attention to any goods, wares or merchandise
which such licensee proposes to sell.
No license shall have any exclusive right to any location in
the public streets, nor shall any be permitted a stationary location
thereon, nor shall any be permitted to operate in a congested area
where such operation might impede or inconvenience the public use
of such streets. For the purpose of this chapter, the judgment of
a police officer, exercised in good faith, shall be deemed conclusive
as to whether the area is congested and the public impeded or inconvenienced.
Licensees are required to exhibit their solicitor's license
in plain sight at all times during the conduct of their authorized
business within the Township.
The Municipal Court Clerk shall report to the Municipal Clerk
all convictions for violation of this chapter, and the Municipal Clerk
shall maintain a record for each license issued and record the reports
of violation therein.
All annual licenses issued under the provisions of this chapter
shall expire at 12:00 midnight the 31st day of December in the year
when issued. Other than annual licenses shall expire at 12:00 midnight
on the date specified in the license.
A violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in §
1-9 of this Code.