For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
Temporary business.
Any business transacted or conducted in the city for which definite arrangements have not been made for the hire, rental or lease of premises for at least 90 days in or upon which the business is to be operated or conducted, or from which the business is to be operated or conducted.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.02; Ordinance adopting Code)
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be fined as provided in section 1.01.009 of this code. Each and every day’s delay in complying with the terms of this article, and each and every day any person shall peddle without a license, shall be a separate offense.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.99)
All peddlers shall in all respects comply with all other ordinances of the city applicable to such persons. This article shall not be construed to repeal any of the health, sanitary, or fowl ordinances of the city, but shall be accumulative thereof and in addition thereto.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.08)
It shall be unlawful for any peddler to take a stand or stop or stand his or her vehicle on any public street within the corporate limits of the city for a longer time than ten minutes.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.07)
It shall be hereafter unlawful for itinerant or temporary merchants who may remove from place to place to sell or offer for sale any bankrupt, fire or water-damaged stock of merchandise or goods, wares or any other commodity or for a person to go from house to house or from place to place in the city soliciting, selling or taking orders for subscriptions to magazines or newspapers, to expose plates or films, or make negatives, to make pictures or photographs for future delivery or for any article for future delivery, without first applying for and obtaining a permit or license to do so from the city secretary.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.01)
(a) 
(1) 
Any person desiring to engage in the business of itinerant merchant or that of peddling within the corporate limits of the city shall first make written application for a permit or license to do so to the city officer designated by the city, which application shall show the name and address of the applicant; the name and address of the person, firm or corporation which the applicant represents; the name of the immediate last preceding three towns in which he operated, if any; the kind of goods, wares and merchandise offered or to be offered for sale, and whether the applicant upon any order so obtained will demand, accept or receive payment or deposit of money in advance of final delivery; and the period of time the applicant so wishes to solicit, sell or take orders in the city. The application shall also show satisfactory proof of his or her authority to represent the company or individual the applicant so states that he or she represents. The application is to be in writing.
(2) 
The written application shall be accepted by the city officer designated by the city, accompanied by a fee of $250, and no permit hereunder shall be issued until the fee has been paid by the applicant and the application has been so filed with the city officer designated by the city, for a period of 48 hours.
(b) 
At the time of making application for the registration card, the applicant shall submit to and be fingerprinted by the city officer designated by the city. The fingerprints shall be kept as a permanent record in the office of the city officer designated by the city.
(c) 
Where the application for the permit and/or license herein provided shows that the applicant will not demand, receive or accept payment and/or deposit of money in advance of final delivery of the goods, wares or merchandise or articles to be sold and/or solicited by the applicant, it shall be the duty of the city secretary to issue to the applicant a permit to solicit, sell and take orders for the goods, wares, merchandise and/or articles set out in the applicant’s application for the permit within the city for a period of 12 months except that of itinerant merchant, from the date of the issuance of the permit, and upon the payment of the fees as hereinafter provided for. If the application shows that the applicant shall receive, demand or accept payment and/or deposit of money in advance of final delivery of goods, wares, merchandise and/or articles sold, then the application shall be accompanied by a bond in the penal sum of $500 executed by the applicant as principal and a surety company licensed to do business as such in the state or by two financially responsible owners of property situated in the state, subject to execution, of the value in double of the amount of the bond conditioned upon making final delivery of the goods, wares, merchandise, magazines, newspapers, plates, films and photographs and/or articles in accordance with the terms of the order and/or orders obtained and which bond shall be used for the benefit of all persons, firms, or corporations who may pay in advance or make any advance deposit on the purchase of the orders, and the bond shall so stipulate in its terms.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.03)
(a) 
The city secretary shall issue a license upon the payment of a fee of $50.00.
(b) 
Persons offering for sale agricultural products, meats, poultry or other articles of food grown or produced by the person shall not be required to pay the license fees, but licenses shall be issued to the persons by the city secretary upon the satisfactory proof that they have produced or grown the products to be peddled, and the license shall so state.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.04; Ordinance adopting Code)
All licenses issued hereunder shall be, except as herein provided specifically otherwise, for a period of 12 months from the date of issuance.
(2002 Code, sec. 114.05)