[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Board of
the Township of Denton 12-8-1948 by Ord. No. 9. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Township of Denton, County of Roscommon,
State of Michigan, ordains that it shall be unlawful for any person,
persons, copartnership or corporation to travel from house to house
within said Township of Denton for the purpose of carrying to sell
or exposing to sale any goods, wares or merchandise or to take orders
for the purchase of goods, wares or merchandise by sample lists or
catalogues unless he, she, they or it shall have obtained a license
as a hawker or peddler in the manner hereinafter provided, to be issued
by said Township of Denton.
Every person, copartnership or corporation desirous
of obtaining a license as a hawker or peddler shall apply to the Treasurer
of said Township of Denton and shall deliver to him a statement in
writing stating the wares, goods and merchandise that he intends to
hawk or peddle and the manner in which he expects to travel and the
length of time that he, she, they or it shall hawk and/or peddle in
said Township of Denton.
Every applicant before he shall be entitled
to a permit or license to hawk and/or peddle in said Township shall
pay to the Township Treasurer of said Township of Denton the sum of
$15 for each day for which said applicant shall request a license.
Upon the presentation of the statement and the
payment of the required license fee to the said Township Treasurer,
the said Township Treasurer shall grant to such applicant a license
to hawk and peddle in said Township of Denton in the manner and for
such length of time as said license shall provide.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed
to prevent any manufacturer, farmer, mechanic or nurseryman from selling
his work or production by sample or otherwise without a license; nor
shall any peddler in meat and/or fish be prevented by anything herein
contained from peddling such meat and/or fish without a license; nor
shall any merchant who has been conducting a regularly established
mercantile business in said Township for at least one year previous
to the taking effect of this chapter be prevented from anything herein
contained from selling groceries, dry goods or general merchandise
from a truck within said Township without a license so long as he
shall continue such regularly established business; nor shall any
wholesale merchant be prevented from anything herein contained from
selling to dealers.
Every person who shall be found hawking or peddling in said Township of Denton contrary to the terms of this chapter or who shall refuse to produce his license as a hawker and/or peddler shall be responsible for a municipal civil infraction, and proceedings shall be instituted pursuant to Chapter 38, Municipal Civil Infractions.
Nothing herein contained shall prevent any honorable
discharged soldier, sailor or marine of the United States Military
or Naval Service from hawking or peddling his own goods, wares and
merchandise without a license, within said Township of Denton.
