As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PEDDLER
Any person or vendor, whether a resident of the Township
or not, traveling by foot, cart, motor vehicle or any other type of
conveyance, from place to place, from house to house or from street
to street, carrying, conveying, or transporting goods, merchandise,
provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales
and delivering articles to purchasers.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of a peddler within the corporate limits of the Township without first obtaining a license and submitting to a criminal background check under §
230-5.
The fee requirements set forth in §
230-3, insofar as same shall apply to fees for peddlers, shall be held not to include the following persons, who are hereby expressly exempt from its application:
A. Persons honorably discharged from the military services of the United
States possessing a peddler's license issued in conformity with N.J.S.A.
45:24-9 and 45:24-10.
B. Any person who is an exempt fireman of a volunteer fire department,
as defined by N.J.S.A. 45:24-9 and 45:24-10, possessing a license
in conformity with said law.
No person shall sell, offer for sale, or peddle in the Township any of the items listed in §
230-1 before 10:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m., unless at a Township-sponsored or Township-permitted event.
It shall be the duty of any police officer of the Township to
require any person seen peddling, and who is not known by such officer
to be duly licensed, to produce his peddler's license and to enforce
the provisions of this article against any person found to be violating
the same.
This article shall not be construed to include:
A. The delivery of newspapers or such other necessary merchandise of
the type commonly delivered on a house-to-house basis at intervals
of less than one week.
B. Federal census takers and polls or surveys taken pursuant to federal,
state or local laws.
The equipment used or employed by peddlers shall be maintained
in a clean and sanitary manner and be subject to the inspection of
the Board of Health or its authorized agents. Any violation found
and not immediately corrected shall be grounds for revocation of the
license.
Violation of any provision of this article shall, upon conviction
thereof, be punished by a minimum fine of $100 or a maximum of $2,000
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days or by a period
of community service not exceeding 90 days. Each and every violation
shall be considered a separate violation. Any person who is convicted
of violating the provisions of this article within one year of the
date of a previous violation and who was fined for the previous violation
may be sentenced by the court to an additional fine as a repeat offender.
The additional fine imposed as a repeat offender shall not be less
than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine provided herein, and same
shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation
of this article.