No person shall sell or solicit orders for sale
of any merchandise of any description, including books or periodicals,
or services, from door to door of private residences, or from store
to store, or on any street, sidewalk, park, parkway or any other public
place.
All persons, firms or corporations engaged in
the business of hawking, huckstering, peddling, soliciting for donations,
soliciting orders for or vending of goods, wares, merchandise, foodstuffs,
magazines, produce or seafood of any type or description on the streets
or sidewalks of Federalsburg shall be required to procure first from
the Town of Federalsburg a license and shall pay for said license
a daily fee of $25 or an annual charge of $100, per person, not prorated,
accounting from the first day of July of each year.
The Town Clerk-Treasurer or his or her designee
shall issue all peddler's licenses and collect and account for the
license fees. A peddler's license shall be applied for in person to
the Town Clerk-Treasurer or his or her designee, and the application
shall contain the following information concerning the applicant:
C. Name and address of employer, if not self employed;
H. General description of the type of merchandise to
be sold.
No license is transferable.
The hours of operation for peddlers, hawkers,
hucksters, solicitors, and vendors shall be between the hours of 8:00
a.m. and sundown. Upon written request by the applicant, the hours
of operation may be extended by the Mayor and Council, based upon
good cause shown. Such appeal shall be made at a regularly scheduled
Mayor and Council meeting.
Peddlers, hawkers, hucksters, solicitors and
vendors must meet Caroline County health regulations before a license
is issued.
Any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be a municipal infraction punishable as provided in Chapter
1, Article
I.