This entire article is and shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the State of Texas, and of the City of Atlanta, for the public safety, comfort, convenience and protection of the city and citizens of said city, and all of the provisions hereof shall be construed for the accomplishment of that purpose.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 1)
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to go from house to house or from place to place in the City of Atlanta, Texas, soliciting, selling or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for any goods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs, newspapers, magazines, or subscriptions to newspapers or magazines, without having first applied for and obtained a license so to do from the city secretary of said city. It shall also hereafter be unlawful to sell of solicit in said city as aforesaid without carrying such license while engaged in such soliciting or selling.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 2)
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to go from house to house or from place to place in the City of Atlanta, Texas, soliciting, selling or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for any goods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs, newspapers, magazines, or subscriptions to newspapers or magazines between the hours of 8:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M. It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit any items in this section between the hours of 8:00 P.M. Saturday and 8:00 A.M. Monday.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 3)
Any person desiring to go from house to house or from place to place in the City of Atlanta, Texas, to sell or solicit orders for goods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs, newspapers, magazines, or subscriptions to newspapers or magazines, shall make written application to the city secretary of said city for a license so to do, which application shall show the name and address of applicant, the name and address of the person, firm, or corporation, if any, that he or she represents and the kind of goods offered for sale, and whether such applicant upon any such sale or order shall demand, accept or receive payment or deposit of money in advance of final delivery, and the period of time such applicant wishes to sell or solicit in said city. Decisions by the city secretary shall be appealable to the city manager whose decision shall be appealable to the city council.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 4; Ordinance adopting Code)
An itinerant merchant or an itinerant vendor as the terms are used in the article shall be held to be any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association engaged in any activity mentioned in Section 4.202 hereof.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 5)
The license fee for an itinerant merchant or itinerant vendor shall be as provided for in the fee schedule found in the appendix of this code. Provided, however, when any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association engages in any activity mentioned in Section 4.202 hereof, through one or more agents or employees, such person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association shall, in addition to said fee above mentioned, pay a license fee also provided for in the fee schedule found in the appendix of this code, for each agent or employee so engaged, all of which licenses shall be valid for one year from the date of their issuance. The fees herein provided for shall be used for the purpose of defraying expenses incident to the issuing of said licenses.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 6)
The provisions of this article shall not apply to sales made to dealers by commercial travelers or sales agents in the usual course of business, nor to sales made under authority and by order of law, nor to vendors of farm or dairy products.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 7)
The City of Atlanta may name an exclusive concession or concessionaires who shall have the exclusive right to sell food, beverages, or novelty items within public streets, sidewalks, alleys, and other outdoor public property within the confines of the entertainment area. Such exclusive concession rights shall be granted only for the duration of the event and shall be limited to public streets, sidewalks, alleys, and other outdoor public property within the entertainment area as that area is defined by agreement between the city and the sponsor.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 8)
(a) 
The provisions of this article shall not apply to persons engaged in interstate commerce as that term is herein defined; provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for persons engaged in interstate commerce to go from house to house or place to place in the City of Atlanta, Texas, without having first registered with the city secretary of said city giving the following information:
(1) 
Name, home address and local address, if any, of registrant.
(2) 
Name and address of the person, firm or corporation, if any, that he or she represents or for whom or through whom orders are to be solicited or cleared.
(3) 
Nature of the articles or things which are to be sold or for which orders are to be solicited.
(4) 
Whether registrant, upon any sale or order shall demand or receive or accept payment or deposit of money in advance of final delivery.
(5) 
Period of time which registrant wishes to solicit or sell in said city.
(b) 
The registrant at the time of the registration as herein provided for, shall submit for inspection of the city secretary written proof of his identity which may be in the form of an automobile operator’s license, identification letter or card issued to registrant by the person, firm or corporation for whom or through whom orders are to be solicited or cleared.
(c) 
The term “interstate commerce” means soliciting, selling or taking orders for or offering to take orders for any goods, wares, merchandise, photographs, newspapers or magazines which, at the time the order is taken, are in another state or will be produced in another state and shipped or introduced into this city in the fulfillment of such orders.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 9)
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this article or failing to observe any provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision found in Section 1.106 of this code and each and every day or fraction of a day during which this article, or any part thereof, shall be violated, shall be deemed a separate offense and punishable as such.
(Ordinance 396, adopted 1/22/90, Section 10)