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)
