This chapter is enacted for the purpose of regulating the conduct and
business practices of transient merchants within the Town of Geddes.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
PERSON
An individual, firm, partnership, corporation, voluntary association,
incorporated association and principal or agent thereof.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT
A person who engages or proposes to engage in a transient retail
business.
TRANSIENT RETAIL BUSINESS
One conducted in a store, hotel, motel, building, lot or structure
for the retail or discount sale of goods, wares and merchandise, excepting
food products, and from which is intended to be conducted for a temporary
period of time and not permanently. If the place in which a business is conducted
is rented or leased for a period of six months or less, such fact shall be
presumptive that the business carried on therein is a "transient business."
[Amended 2-13-1996 by L.L.
No. 1-1996]
The purpose of this chapter is to assist the government of the Town
of Geddes, the management of its businesses, the preservation of good order
and the peace, health, safety and welfare of its inhabitants and the protection
and security of their property.
[Amended 2-13-1996 by L.L.
No. 1-1996]
No person shall engage in business as a transient merchant unless he
shall first have obtained a license to do so from the Town Clerk no later
than 10 business days before the first date of business. The fee for a transient
merchant's license shall be as set from time to time by resolution of the
Town Board.
Before any person who is a nonresident of New York State shall have
a license issued hereunder, such person must provide, to the Town Clerk and
Town Attorney, proof of authorization to the New York State Secretary of State
to receive service pursuant to the Business Corporation Law § 304.
A certified copy of such authorization shall be filed with the Geddes Town
Clerk.
Chapter
240, Zoning, of the Town of Geddes shall apply to all licenses granted under this chapter. The town reserves the right to revoke any license which violates such chapter.
The owner, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, rooming house
or other place of public accommodation shall, within six hours after renting,
report to the Town of Geddes Police Chief and to the Onondaga County Sheriff
the name of any person who has rented a room or other space for the sale and
display of merchandise of a transient merchant, giving the location of the
room so rented.
Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty
of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine
of not more than $250, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both, for
each offense; and every day that a violation of this chapter shall continue
shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.