As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
HAWKER AND PEDDLER
Except as hereinafter expressly provided, any person, either principal
or agent, who from any vehicle or car or in any public street or public place
or by going from house to house or from place of business to place of business,
on foot or from any animal or vehicle, sells or barters, offers for sale or
barter or carries or exposes for sale or barter any goods, wares or merchandise,
except milk and newspapers.
PERSON
One (1) or more persons of either sex, natural persons, corporations,
partnerships, associations, joint-stock companies, societies and all other
entities of any kind capable of being sued.
SOLICITOR
Any person who goes from place to place or house to house or who
stands in any street or public place taking or offering to take any orders
for goods, wares or merchandise, except newspaper or milk, or for services
to be performed in the future or for making, manufacturing or repairing any
article or thing whatsoever for future delivery.
Nothing in this chapter shall be held to apply to any sales conducted
pursuant to statute or by order of any court; to any person selling personal
property at wholesale to dealers in such articles; to any honorably discharged
member of the armed forces who has procured a license as provided by the General
Business Law of the State of New York; to merchants having an established
place of business within the village for soliciting orders from customers
and delivering the same; or to nonprofit organizations. This chapter shall
also not apply so as to unlawfully interfere with interstate commerce.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the
Village of Oxford, New York, to act as a hawker, peddler or solicitor as herein
defined without first having obtained and paid for and having in force and
effect a license therefor.
The license fee shall be the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.) per day,
which said daily fee is hereby ordained and established therefor, and each
such license shall be issued as aforesaid by the Village Clerk. Any applicant
who shall have been refused such license by the Clerk may apply to the Board
of Trustees therefor at a meeting thereof, and the same may be granted or
refused by the Board.
The Village Clerk may, at any time for a violation of this chapter or
any other law, revoke any license. Notice of such revocation and the reason
or reasons therefor shall be served, in writing, by the Village Clerk upon
the person named in the application or by mailing the same to the address
given in the application.