Any person who journeys about from house to house, or from customer to customer, selling or offering to sell goods, wares, merchandise, or other commodities, by retail, and carrying the same on his back or on a horse or other animal, or in a cart, wagon, motor vehicle or other vehicle, or carrying the same in a grip or grips, or other containers; provided, that merchants who deliver their goods to customers, after the same have been sold, shall not be deemed peddlers. Peddler includes roadside stands, selling from or on a vehicle or any other manner of selling goods from the roadside or house to house.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.01)
(a) 
Each peddler/salesperson must, while engaged in selling, have a valid permit issued by the City of Pottsboro, and must have permit ready to exhibit to any officer.
(b) 
Each peddler/salesperson must have a valid health permit issued by Neil Young, Department of Health, State of Texas, and a valid food handlers certificate issued to him by the regulatory authority while engaged in selling from a bar-b-q wagon.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.02)
Each peddler must make application to the city secretary for a peddlers permit and must provide the following information:
(1) 
Name of applicant;
(2) 
Permanent home address and full local address of applicant;
(3) 
Type of goods to be sold.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.03)
At the time of the application for a peddlers permit a fee as provided for in the fee schedule in the appendix of this code for each peddler shall be paid.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.04)
Any permit issued shall be valid for a period of thirty (30) days.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.05)
All established, reputable individuals and businesses who maintain a bona fide residence/business within the corporate limits of the city shall be exempt from this permit requirement.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.06)
This permit requirement shall not apply to the sale of farm, dairy, garden, etc., products; however, it is expressly provided that persons selling these products must have grown or produced these items and must provide a statement from a licensed physician stating they are free of communicable disease.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.07)
Any peddler who shall fail or refuse to comply with any provision of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision in Section 1.109 of this code.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 4, Article 1.00, Section 1.08)