[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Larchmont 5-15-1967 as Ch. V of the Revised General Ordinances, as amended through 8-4-1975. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Blasting — See Ch. 107.
Bowling alleys — See Ch. 111.
Special sales — See Ch. 223.
Taxicabs — See Ch. 255.
A. 
The pursuit or exercise of any of the following trades or occupations within the Village of Larchmont without a license is hereby prohibited:
[Amended 9-14-1987 by L.L. No. 4-1987]
(1) 
The operation of a vehicle or vehicles by the operator thereof in his/her own behalf or in behalf of, or as employee or agent for, any other individual, corporation, association, partnership or group over or upon the streets of the Village of Larchmont for hire and the solicitation of fares, fees or other compensation for such operation anywhere within the Village of Larchmont.
(2) 
The operation of sales at auction.
(3) 
Selling, hawking, peddling and soliciting.
(a) 
Nothing in this section shall be held to apply to:
[1] 
Sales conducted pursuant to statute or court order.
[2] 
Sales, the prohibition of which would interfere unlawfully with interstate commerce.
[3] 
Sales at wholesale to dealers.
[4] 
Sales by merchants having an established place of business within the Village of Larchmont or sales or solicitations by employees of such merchants.
[5] 
Sales by farmers, berry pickers and truck gardeners who, through themselves or their employees, sell products of their own farms or gardens.
(b) 
Persons licensed pursuant to § 32 of the General Business Law of the State of New York shall be required to procure a local license hereunder in accordance with the provisions of Subdivision 8 of said § 32.
(c) 
Anything in the foregoing provisions of this section to the contrary notwithstanding, the practice of going in and upon private residences and other residential units in the Village of Larchmont, New York, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise, not having been permitted, requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of said private residences or other residential units, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise and services and/or disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same is hereby declared to be a nuisance and punishable as such nuisance as set forth in § 185-6 hereunder.
(4) 
The giving of exhibitions, performances, entertainment or entertainments in and the use of, operation of or participation in the operation of, in the Village of Larchmont, for money or hire, a place or places of amusement, entertainment or exhibition, including public halls, public dance halls, moving-picture houses, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, billiard or pool parlors, and places offering varied or other amusement or entertainment to the public. This section shall not be held to apply to the use or operation of any religious, charitable or educational institution where the proceeds from the use or operation shall be devoted exclusively to charitable, benevolent or religious purposes nor to the use or operation of space for local amateur amusement, entertainment or exhibition.
(5) 
The use of, operation of or participation, in any way, in the operation of any room, space or spaces in the Village of Larchmont where musical entertainment, singing, dancing or other similar amusement or entertainment is permitted in connection with the restaurant business or the business of directly or indirectly selling to the public food or drink, to which the public is admitted with or without payment of fee.
(6) 
The landing within the Village of Larchmont of excursion boats or passengers therefrom.
(7) 
Blasting.
(8) 
Distributing samples, pamphlets, etc.
(a) 
Distributing samples of merchandise, commodities, medical or food products, circulars, handbills or throwaways or other printed matter on the highways or in hallways or on doorsteps or otherwise in the Village of Larchmont is prohibited without first securing a written permit from the Chief of Police.
(b) 
The Chief of Police shall, before he/she grants such a permit, satisfy himself as to the character of the individual distributing such matter, the reason for such distribution, the number of persons to be involved in such distribution and the manner in which such distribution is to be conducted.
B. 
No license shall be granted for the use or operation of any place that does not comply with or is prohibited by the laws of the State of New York, the codes of the County of Westchester and the local laws, ordinances and regulations of the Village of Larchmont.
A. 
All applications for licenses required in § 185-1 shall be in writing and shall be passed on by the Mayor, who, when he/she approves the same, shall instruct the Clerk to issue such license, specifying the fee to be paid therefor, to such persons as he/she shall deem fit and proper for such trade or occupations in § 185-1A(3) and (4) above specified, who shall, in the judgment of the Mayor, be unlikely to disturb the peace and order of the village or be immoral or improper.
B. 
Every such license shall be countersigned by the Clerk, who shall keep a record thereof and of the amount of the fee to be paid therefor, and upon presentation of such license to the Treasurer, so signed and countersigned, and the payment to the Treasurer of such fee, the Treasurer shall endorse thereon his/her receipt of the license fee. The license shall not take effect until the receipt of the Treasurer shall have been endorsed thereon.
C. 
Any applicant, who shall have been refused such license by the Mayor, may apply to the Board therefor at a meeting thereof, and the same may be granted or refused by the Board.
D. 
All licenses shall have endorsed thereon the following: "This license is revocable." The Mayor may suspend any such license until the next meeting of the Board, and, thereupon, said license may be revoked or continued by the Board.
A. 
License fees shall be as fixed by the Village Board from time to time.
[Amended 5-21-1984 by L.L. No. 1-1984]
B. 
Except for auctioneers' licenses, said fees are for a license period of six months to one year. For a license period of less than six months, the respective fees shall be 1/2 of said amounts (April 1 to September 30 or October 1 to March 31).
Every license shall expire March 31 succeeding the date of the issuance thereof and may be revoked at any time by the Board for good cause.
[Amended 5-21-1984 by L.L. No. 1-1984]
Fees, as fixed by the Village Board from time to time, are hereby established for the issuance of transcripts of such police records as are available to the public, and said fees shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Village of Larchmont.
[Added 5-4-1981 by L.L. No. 3-1981]
Any person committing an offense against this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or to both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct offense hereunder.