No person shall engage in the business of hawker, peddler or solicitor in the village without first obtaining a license therefor.
As herein to be construed:
ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS
A building or store in which or where a person transacts business or deals in goods, wares or merchandise he hawks, peddles or solicits for during regular business hours.
HAWKER OR PEDDLER
Any person, either principal or agent, who, in any public street or public place or by going from house to house or place of business to place of business on foot or by means of any conveyance, sells, barters, offers for sale, carries or exposes for sale or barters and sells goods or merchandise except milk, newspapers and periodicals.
SOLICITOR
Any person who goes from house to house or from place to place or who stands in any street or public place taking or offering to take orders for goods, wares or merchandise except newspapers or milk.
Nothing herein contained shall apply to any sales conducted by order of any court; nor the wholesalers selling to retailers; nor to merchants having and established place of business within the village; nor to farmers or truck gardeners who sell or dispose of products of their own farms; nor to those engaged in interstate traffic and commerce; nor to the holder of a license granted pursuant to § 32 of the General Business Law.
[Amended 6-7-1993 by L.L. No. 2-1993]
The fee established for the issuance of a license to engage in the business of hawker, peddler or solicitor shall be as set forth from time to time by the Board of Trustees.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 96, Fees.