(a) 
Registration required.
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in interstate commerce to go from house to house or 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 registered with the city secretary, giving the following information:
(A) 
The name, home address and local address, if any, of the registrant.
(B) 
The name and address of the person, firm or corporation, if any, that he represents or for whom or through whom orders are to be solicited or cleared.
(C) 
The nature of the articles or things which are to be sold or for which orders are to be solicited.
(D) 
Whether the registrant, upon any sale or order, shall demand or receive or accept payment or any deposit of money in advance of final delivery.
(E) 
The period of time during which the registrant wishes to solicit or sell in the city.
(2) 
The term “interstate commerce,” as used in this section, means soliciting, selling or taking orders for any goods, wares, merchandise, photographs, newspapers or 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 the city in the fulfillment of such orders.
(b) 
Proof of identity.
At the time of the registration provided for in subsection (a) of this section, the registrant 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 or an identification letter or card issued to the registrant by the person for whom or through whom orders are to be solicited or cleared.
(1964 Code, secs. 19-1, 19-2)
For the purposes of this division, an itinerant merchant or an itinerant vendor shall be held to be any person who goes 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.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-47)
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any activity described in section 4.05.031 without first obtaining a license to do so from the city secretary.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-48)
Any person desiring to engage in any activity mentioned in section 4.05.031 shall make written application to the city secretary for a license so to do, which application shall show the name and address of the person the applicant represents, the kind of goods offered for sale, and whether the applicant, upon any sale or order, shall demand or accept a 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.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-49)
The fee for an itinerant merchant’s or itinerant vendor’s license shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) for a period of one (1) year from the date issued or twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per quarter. When any person engages in any activity mentioned in section 4.05.031 through one or more agents or employees, he shall, in addition to such fee, pay a license fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each agent or employee so engaged in. The fees provided for herein shall be deposited to the general fund of the city.
(Ordinance 858, sec. I, adopted 12/9/91)
(a) 
An application for a license under this division shall be accompanied by a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), signed by the applicant and signed, as surety, by some surety company authorized to do business in the state, conditioned for final deliverance 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 on the bond, at the time of delivery, and that may be discovered by such purchaser or customer within thirty (30) days after delivery. Such bond shall be for the use and benefit of all persons that make any purchase or give any order to the principal on the bond or to any agent or employee of the principal.
(b) 
In case the applicant is engaging in any activity mentioned in section 4.05.031 through one or more agents or employees, such applicant shall be required to enter into any one bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), which bond shall be made to cover the activities of all of his agents or employees.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-51)
Any license issued under this division shall be valid for one (1) year from the date of issuance.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-52)
The provisions of this division 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, except retail sales of ice cream of any form by peddlers or itinerant salesmen, nor to persons engaged in interstate commerce as that term is defined in section 4.05.001.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-54)
This entire division is and shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the city for the public safety, comfort, convenience, privacy, quiet and protection of the city and the citizens thereof, and all of the provisions hereof shall be construed for the accomplishment of such purposes.
(1964 Code, sec. 19-55)