As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
PEDDLER or HAWKER
Any person or business entity, whether principal or agent, who shall
go from place to place, within East Hampton, selling or bartering, or carrying
for sale or barter, or exposing therefor any goods, wares, merchandise or
things, either on foot or from any animal or vehicle.
SOLICITOR or CANVASSER
Any person, or business entity, whether principal or agent, who shall
go from place to place, or who shall call at residences either in person or
by telephone within East Hampton, without the previous consent of the occupant
for the purpose of soliciting sales, subscriptions, information, business
of any kind, donations and orders for future delivery of any services, goods,
wares or merchandise, including, without limiting the foregoing, magazines
and other printed matter.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to persons who are soliciting
orders of purchase for future delivery, selling, bartering or exposing for
sale or barter, goods, wares, or merchandise to regularly established customers;
to salesmen selling goods to retail or wholesale stores for resale or to industrial
establishments for processing; to the vending of any goods, sold at or upon
the occasion of any public festival or holiday of any kind under the control
of persons who are in charge of such occasions; to newsboys and those exempted
under the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut from the operation
of the general regulatory power granted to towns with respect to peddling
to officials or employees of East Hampton, State of Connecticut or the federal
government while on official business.
Any person or business entity violating any provision of this chapter
shall be fined not more than $199 for each offense, and a separate offense
shall be deemed committed each such time a violation occurs.