[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of Federalsburg 9-1-1998 by Ord. No. 98-14. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
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.
A.
This chapter shall not include the selling of any
article at wholesale to dealers in such articles or the delivery of
milk, eggs, bread, newspapers or other such necessary and perishable
articles of food or merchandise of a type commonly delivered on a
house-to-house basis at intervals of less than one week.
B.
Any nonprofit religious, charitable, educational,
civic or veterans' organization, society, association, service club,
volunteer first aid or fire, etc., desiring to solicit or have solicited
in its name money, donations of money or property or financial assistance
of any kind or desiring to sell or distribute any item of literature
or merchandise for which a fee is charged or solicited from persons
other than members of such organization at any place or places within
the Town of Federalsburg for a charitable, religious, patriotic or
philanthropic purpose shall be exempt from the provisions of this
chapter.
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:
No license is transferable.
A.
This chapter
does not apply to vendors of milk or cream, bread, meat, fuels or
petroleum products, or newspapers, nor to school children under the
age of 18 years selling magazines, nor to bona fide salesmen selling
or soliciting merchandise for resale in stores.
B.
This chapter also does not apply to the sale of self-produced fresh
fruit and vegetables by the producer, at either the producer's
property or another property with written permission from the property
owner, from a nonpermanent structure that is removed at the end of
the growing season.
[Added 10-6-2014 by Ord.
No. 2014-6]
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.
