[Adopted as §§ 16-2-1 through
16-2-9 of the 1972 Code (Ch. 11, Art. VIII, of the 1990 Code of Ordinances)]
All hawkers and peddlers desiring to sell or
offer for sale, as hawkers and peddlers, any articles or substances
within the Town, and all persons desiring to sell or offer for sale
any goods, wares, merchandise, ice cream, fruit or vegetables, or
other articles or substances on any street in the Town, shall first
obtain a Town license therefor to be issued by the Town Clerk. Upon
the recommendation or approval of the Town Sergeant in writing, the
Town Clerk shall issue a license accordingly to such persons respectively
to sell the articles and substances hereinbefore mentioned in such
manner as shall be specified in such license, upon any street in the
Town, or to hawkers and peddlers authorizing them to sell or to offer
for sale as hawkers and peddlers any articles or substances within
the Town for the period from the date of such license until the first
day of July next ensuing such date.
Nothing contained in this article shall apply
to milkmen, nor to farmers selling the produce of their farms or selling
both the produce of their farms or the produce of other farms, nor
to vendors of ice or newspapers, nor to holders of lunch-cart licenses.
A.
For licenses issued under the provisions of this article,
the person receiving the same shall pay to the Town Clerk the following
fees, which are hereby established respectively:
B.
In addition to the foregoing, the Town Sergeant may
issue special licenses for one or more days for such fee as he shall
prescribe in his recommendation to the Town Clerk, no less than $1
nor more than $10 per day.
No fee shall be charged for licenses issued
under the provisions of this article to any person selling religious
books and publications in behalf of Bible, tract, or other religious
or moral societies, for the purpose of promoting religious or moral
improvement, and which are sold for that purpose and not for pecuniary
profit, or to florists, or to butchers retailing meat, or to fishermen
selling fish or shellfish from carts or otherwise, or to any person
peddling any towcloth, knit stockings, gloves, mitts or other articles
of household furniture or articles manufactured with his own hands,
or to any person who shall receive a license from the General Treasurer,
in accordance with the provisions of R.I.G.L. § 5-11-7.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said R.I.G.L. § 5-11-7
was repealed by P.L. 1995, ch. 174, § 1 and ch. 185, § 1,
effective 7-3-1995.
Every person licensed under this article shall
also obtain from the Town Clerk a badge of white metal at least 2
1/2 inches in diameter, and shall at all times while engaged in the
business for which he was licensed wear such badge conspicuously on
the outside of his outside coat. Such badge shall bear in black enamel
a number which corresponds to the badge number marked on the license
and shall be issued upon the deposit of $0.50 to such person as shall
obtain the license bearing such badge number. Upon the surrender of
such badge to the Town Clerk, such deposit shall be returned and the
license shall thereby be revoked.
No person shall wear any badge issued under
the provisions of this article after the expiration or revocation
of the license represented by it. Any licensed person who shall suffer
any such badge issued to him as aforesaid to be used by another person
for a purpose similar to that for which the badge was issued to him
shall forfeit such badge, together with the license represented by
it.
No license issued under the provisions of this
article shall authorize any person otherwise than the one named therein
to act thereunder; and no license shall be transferable, excepting
that any such license may be transferred by the Town Clerk on recommendation
of the Town Sergeant, on payment of the fee of $1.
Any person who shall neglect or refuse for the
space of 10 minutes, after the demand by any police officer, to exhibit
to him his license and badge shall be deemed for the purposes of this
article to be unlicensed and to have violated the provisions of this
article.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $20.
[Added 3-18-1997 by Ord. No. 97-1]
A.
All hawker and peddler licenses will be suspended
on the day of the annual Memorial Day Parade until 2:00 p.m.
B.
Anyone desiring a hawker or peddler license to sell
appropriate products during the time of the license suspensions must
apply to the Memorial Day Parade Committee, pay the appropriate fee,
and abide by the appropriate rules and regulations relating to sale
of parade produces, including food.
