No person shall engage in the business of being a vendor or
peddler without first obtaining a license from the Borough Manager.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PEDDLER
Includes any person, whether a resident of the Borough of
Mount Oliver or not, traveling by foot from place to place, from house
to house, or from street to street, carrying on his or her person
goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, or provisions,
offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering
articles to purchasers. It is further provided that one who solicits
orders is deemed a peddler and subject to the provisions of this chapter.
STATIONARY VEHICULAR VENDOR
Includes any person, whether a resident of the Borough of
Mount Oliver or not, who, without traveling from place to place, sells
or offers for sale goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables,
fruits, or provisions from an approved vending vehicle at a specific
and permitted vehicular vendor location.
VENDOR
Includes any person, whether a resident of the Borough of
Mount Oliver or not, who, without traveling from place to place, sells
or offers for sale goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables,
fruits, or provisions from an approved vending unit at an approved
vendor location.
The following information shall be required:
A. A description of the nature of the business and goods to be bought,
sold, or rented and the name, address, and phone number of the applicant.
B. If employed, the name, address, and phone number of the employer.
C. The duration and hours of operation for which the right to do business
is requested.
D. A description of any vehicle used and its license number.
E. Valid Pennsylvania driver's license.
F. Evidence that all required Health Department licenses have been obtained.
G. A signed statement that the permittee shall hold harmless the Borough
of Mount Oliver, its officers and employees, and shall indemnify the
Borough of Mount Oliver, its officers and employees, for any claims
or damage to property or injury to persons which may be occasioned
by any activity carried on under the terms of the permit. The permittee
shall furnish and maintain such public liability, food products liability,
and property damage insurance as will protect the permittee and the
Borough from all claims for damage to property or bodily injury, including
death, which may arise from operations under the permit or in connection
therewith. Such insurance shall provide coverage of not less than
$50,000 for bodily injury for each person, $100,000 for each occurrence,
and not less than $100,000 for property damage per occurrence. Such
insurance shall be without prejudice to coverage otherwise existing
therein, and shall name as additional insured the Borough of Mount
Oliver, its officers and employees.
The Borough Manager is hereby authorized to suspend any license
issued under this chapter when he/she deems it to be beneficial to
the public health, safety, or welfare, or for violation of any provision
of this chapter, or for giving false information upon any application
for a license hereunder. No part of a license fee shall be refunded
to any person whose license shall have been suspended.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall,
for each violation, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of
not more than $1,000. Each day's violation of any provision of
this chapter shall constitute a separate violation.
If any provisions of this chapter shall be held to be invalid
or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in effect.
Borough Council has approved the following sites as locations
for street and sidewalk vending:
Schedule I: Approved Sites
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Street
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Side
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Location
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Brownsville Road
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Both
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Between Arlington Avenue and Sherman Avenue
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Brownsville Road
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East
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Between Arlington Avenue and Margaret Street
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Hays Avenue
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West
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Between Ormsby Avenue and School
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Penn Avenue
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North
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Between Hays Avenue and School
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