No solicitation or peddling shall be conducted at any place of residence in the City where any sign prohibiting trespassing or solicitation has been posted or displayed. If the sign posted or displayed limits the hours of trespassing or solicitation, no solicitation or peddling shall be conducted at any place of residence in the City during the time period posted or displayed.
(Prior code § 6280)
"Soliciting business" means engaging in the business of soliciting, canvassing or taking orders, traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck or any other type of conveyance from place to place, from house to house or from street to street, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, personal property, of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether he or she is collecting advance payments on such sales or not, or whether he or she is a resident of the City or not, providing that such definition shall include any person who for himself or herself or for any other person hires, leases, uses or occupies any building or structure, apartment, automobile, vehicles or any other place within the City for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
(a) 
No peddler or solicitor selling or pretending to sell goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or character, or any article, material or substance, or taking orders for, or soliciting orders for, any article, material or substance, shall ring the bell, or knock on the door of any residence, dwelling, flat or apartment which has a sign bearing the words, "No Peddlers" or "No Solicitors" painted or affixed or exposed to public view.
(b) 
This Section shall not apply to any peddler or solicitor who knocks at any door, or rings any bell at the invitation or with the consent of some member of the household at which he or she so applies for admission.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
Every person engaged in soliciting, canvassing, taking orders or peddling of goods, wares, merchandise or services shall pay a license fee in accordance with Section 6.12.010(a) of this Code.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
For purposes of this Chapter, peddler shall be defined as any person engaged in the business of selling or offering for sale within the City, goods, wares, merchandise or other things or articles of value, including food and beverages, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, travels door-to-door.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
Except as otherwise permitted by law, no person engaged in business in the City where goods, wares or merchandise is sold or services are rendered or offered shall use any portion of the sidewalk or street in front of or adjacent to the business, for the purpose of soliciting, requesting or enticing any other person to enter said place of business to examine, purchase or bargain for any goods, wares, merchandise or services or to give any order therefor.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
Any person entitled to a free license in accordance with the Interstate Commerce Act shall pay a fee in the amount of twenty-five dollars to cover the cost of issuing the license.
(Amended by Ord. No. 2458CCS § 5, adopted 5/27/14; added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
No person shall keep, maintain or conduct at any time, any lunch, meal or eating cart, vehicle, wagon or stand, or any cart, wagon or stand used in selling popcorn, peanuts, candy or any other article of food, or drink, in or upon any public street, or other public place within two hundred feet of the nearest property line of any property upon which a public school building is located.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
No business license shall be issued for the peddling or renting of any type of goods, wares, merchandise or foodstuffs upon the beaches, and any person guilty of peddling or renting any goods, wares, merchandise or foodstuffs upon the beaches is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)
(a) 
Every honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States, who served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Chinese Relief Expedition, the American Expeditionary Forces in the wars against Germany or Japan, the Korean War, the Vietnam War or the Persian Gulf War, who is disabled shall be granted a peddler's license without payment of license tax or fee.
(b) 
Each person claiming exemption under the provisions of this Section shall exhibit to the Chief of Police his or her honorable discharge, and a certificate signed by a physician setting forth the person's disability.
(Added by Ord. No. 1851CCS § 19, adopted 5/28/96)