This article is and shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the state and of the city for the public safety, comfort, convenience, and protection of the city and citizens of the city, and all of the provisions hereof shall be construed for the accomplishment of that purpose.
(Ordinance 17, sec. 1, adopted 8/23/71)
An itinerant merchant or an itinerant vendor, as the terms are used in this article, shall be held to be any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation, or association engaged in any activity mentioned in section 4.02.004 hereof.
(Ordinance 17, sec. 5, adopted 8/23/71)
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 any sum not less than $10.00 and not more than $500.00, 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 17-A adopted 9/27/93)
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person to go from house to house or from place to place in the city 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. It shall also hereafter be unlawful to sell or solicit in the city as aforesaid without carrying such license while engaged in such soliciting or selling.
(Ordinance 17, sec. 2, adopted 8/23/71)
Any person desiring to go from house to house or from place to place in the city 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 for a license to do so, which application shall show the name and address of the 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 the applicant wishes to sell or solicit in the city.
(Ordinance 17, sec. 3, adopted 8/23/71)
(a) 
The application mentioned in section 4.02.005 shall be accompanied by a bond in the penal sum of $1,000.00, signed by the applicant and signed, as surety, by some surety company authorized to do business in the state, conditioned for the final delivery of goods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs, magazines and newspapers in accordance with the terms of any order obtained prior to delivery and also conditioned to indemnify any and all purchasers or customers for any and all defects in material or workmanship that may exist in the article sold by the principal of said bond at the time of delivery, and that may be discovered by such purchaser or customer within 30 days after delivery, and which bond shall be for the use and benefit of all persons, firms or corporations that may make any purchase or give any order to the principal on said bond, or to an agent or employee of the principal.
(b) 
Provided that, in case the applicant is a person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association engaging in any activity mentioned in section 4.02.004 hereof through one of more agents or employees, such person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association shall be required to enter into only one bond, in the sum of $1,000.00 as above required, which bond shall be made to cover the activities of all its agents or employees.
(Ordinance 17, sec. 4, adopted 8/23/71)
The license fee for an itinerant merchant or itinerant vender shall be $10.00; provided, however, when any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation, or association engages in any activity mentioned in section 4.02.004 hereof through one of more agents or employees, such person, firm, company, partnership, corporation, or association shall, in addition to said $10.00 fee above mentioned, pay a license fee of $5.00 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 license.
(Ordinance 17, sec. 6, adopted 8/23/71)
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 17, sec. 7, adopted 8/23/71)
(a) 
The provisions of this article shall not apply to persons engaged in interstate commerce as the 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 without having first registered with the city secretary giving the following information:
(1) 
Name, home address and local address, if any, of the 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 the 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 the registrant wishes to solicit or sell in the city.
(b) 
The registrant, at the time of the registration, as herein provided for, shall submit for inspection of the city clerk or city secretary written proof of his identity, which may be in the form of an automobile operator’s license, identification letter or card issued [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, magazines, or subscriptions to 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 17, sec. 8, adopted 8/23/71)