It shall be unlawful for any peddler, hawker, solicitor, canvasser
or transient merchant to sell or offer to sell or dispose of or distribute
any goods, wares or merchandise, or to contract for services to be
rendered, or to take or offer to take orders for any goods, wares,
merchandise or services to be rendered or delivered in the future,
within the borough, without first obtaining a license therefor as
provided in this chapter.
Every licensee shall have his license in his possession while
engaged in the business licensed. The licensee shall produce his license
at the request of any person solicited, any borough police officer
or any official of the borough.
A license shall be issued for a term not to exceed one year.
Each license shall expire on December 31 of the year in which it is
issued unless sooner indicated upon the license.
The mere distribution of circulars, handbills or samples on
a door-to-door basis, which activity does not involve any form of
oral or physical contact between the distributor and the distributee,
shall be exempt from regulation by the provisions of this chapter.
However, if such activity involves any form of activity described
in the other provisions of this chapter, then in that event such activity
shall be regulated by the appropriate provisions of this chapter.
This amended chapter does not prohibit peddlers, solicitors,
canvassers or transient merchants from selling merchandise from door
to door wherein such sales are to the owners or occupiers of dwellings
or buildings wherein such sales and the delivery of merchandise occurs
on the private property of such owners and/or occupiers.
All licensees who have held yearly licenses in the Borough of
Lawnside continuously since 1984, with no gaps in years, shall have
a right to receive licenses from the borough notwithstanding this
chapter. If said licensee shall fail to renew their license for any
year or part thereof, then the licensee shall have to comply with
all the provisions of this chapter.