[Adopted as Sec. 6-2 of the 1976 Revised General Ordinances]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PEDDLER
Any person, whether a resident of the Township of West Milford or not, travelling by foot, wagon, automotive 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, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers, or who, without travelling from place to place, shall sell or offer the same for sale from a wagon, cart, automotive vehicle, railroad car, or other vehicle or conveyance, and further provided that one who solicits orders and as a separate transaction makes deliveries to purchasers as a part of a scheme or design to evade the provisions of this article shall be deemed a peddler subject to the provisions of this article. The word "peddler" shall include the words "hawker" and "huckster."
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.
[Amended 4-16-1986 by Ord. No. 1986-6; 5-2-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-013; 12-5-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-030]
The annual fee for a peddler's license is set forth in Chapter 135, Fees and Costs. The fees are for the general protection of the public health, welfare and safety.
A. 
The Township Clerk shall issue to each licensee a license certificate bearing upon it a notation of the period for which the license is issued and the number thereof. The license certificate shall be carried with the licensee during the time in which he is engaged in peddling and shall be exhibited to any person requesting to see the same. In addition he shall issue to each licensee at the time of the delivery of his license two license plates for each vehicle to be used. The license plates shall bear the words "Licensed Peddler," the period for which the license is issued and the number of the license in letters and figures plainly discernible; license plates shall be attached to the vehicle used by the licensee, either on both sides or on the front and rear of the vehicle so used.
B. 
Peddlers are required to exhibit their licenses at the request of any citizen.
No peddler, nor any person in his behalf, shall shout, make any cryout, blow a horn, ring a bell or use any sound device, including any loud-speaking radio or sound-amplifying system, upon any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public places of the Township or upon any private premises in the Township where sound of sufficient volume is emitted or produced therefrom to be capable of being plainly heard upon the streets, avenues, alleys, parks or other public places, for the purpose of attracting attention to any goods, wares or merchandise which the licensee proposes to sell.
No peddler shall have any exclusive right to any location in the public streets, nor shall he be permitted a stationary location, nor shall he be permitted to operate in any congested area where his operations might impede or inconvenience the public. He shall not be permitted to stand or remain in any one place for the purpose of selling or offering goods, wares or merchandise, or any product for which he secures a license as per this article for sale, for a period longer than 15 minutes. For the purpose of this section, the judgment of a police officer, exercised in good faith, shall be deemed conclusive as to whether the area is congested or the public impeded or inconvenienced.
A. 
It shall be the duty of any police officer of the Township to require any person seen peddling, and who is not known by the officer to be duly licensed, to produce his peddler's license, and to enforce the provision of this article against any person found to be violating the same.
B. 
The Chief of Police shall report to the Township Clerk all convictions for violation of this article, and the Township Clerk shall maintain a record for each license issued and record the reports of violations therein.