[Amended 4-17-2019 by Ord. No. 8-2019]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PEDDLER
Any person, whether a resident of the Township or not, traveling by foot, cart, motor 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, merchandise, provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers. Vendors are included.
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.
The annual license fee for a peddler shall be $100 per year. The license year shall be from January 1 to December 31.
[Amended 4-17-2019 by Ord. No. 8-2019]
A. 
No peddler shall have an exclusive right to any location, nor shall they be permitted to operate in any congested area where their operations might impede or inconvenience the public. For the purpose of this article, 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.
B. 
No license or permit which includes use of a vehicle shall permit the licensee to sell from the same location on a public roadway to within the area of 100 feet from that location for a period of more than one hour.
It shall be the duty of any police officer of the Township to require any person seen peddling, and who is not known by such officer to be duly licensed, to produce his peddler's license and to enforce the provisions of this article against any person found to be violating the same.
A. 
This article shall not be construed to include:
(1) 
The delivery of newspapers or such other necessary merchandise of the type commonly delivered on a house-to-house basis at intervals of less than one week.
(2) 
Federal census takers and polls or surveys taken pursuant to federal, state or local laws.
B. 
Any veteran or volunteer fireman who holds a special license issued pursuant to N.J.S.A. 45:24-9 shall be exempt from application for a license but shall be required to comply with all other applicable sections of this article.
[Amended 4-17-2019 by Ord. No. 8-2019]
The equipment used or employed by peddlers shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary manner and be subject to the inspection of the Board of Health or its authorized agents. Any violation found and not immediately corrected shall be grounds for revocation of the license.
Violation of any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a minimum fine of $100 or a maximum of $2,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days. Each and every violation shall be considered a separate violation. Any person who is convicted of violating the provisions of this article within one year of the date of a previous violation and who was fined for the previous violation may be sentenced by the court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed as a repeat offender shall not be less than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine provided herein, and same shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation of this article.