Chapter 18
PEDDLERS, HAWKERS, SOLICITORS AND ITINERANT VENDORS

Sec. 18-1. Definition.
As defined in this chapter:

Peddlers, hawkers, itinerant vendors and solicitors, shall include any transient person who engages temporarily in the making or selling of any goods, wares or merchandise of any kind whatsoever, including the sale, or soliciting for sale of photographs and magazine subscriptions within the Town, regardless of whether such goods, ware or merchandise are peddled from house to house, sold or hawked upon the streets or other public places, or sold from any room, building, structure or lot rented or leased for the purpose of carrying on such business, for present or future delivery, by telephone or otherwise.

Transient person shall mean any person who does not reside with the boundaries of the Duneland School Corporation.

Sec. 18-2. License - Required.
It shall be unlawful for any hawker, peddler, solicitor or other itinerant vendor in goods, wares or merchandise, to offer the same for sale in this Town without having first obtained a license therefore.

Sec. 18-3. Same - Application.
Not less than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the issuance of any license by the Clerk-Treasurer, as provide herein, an applicant for a license, as a condition precedent to the issuance of such license, shall furnish the Clerk-Treasurer a written application in triplicate on a form to be furnished by the Town known as "Peddler's Application Form No. 1," in which each and every question shall be answered under oath. Such form is to be examined and approved by the Clerk-Treasurer, and the Clerk-Treasurer is directed to refuse to issue a license to a person who has not answered each and every question thereon under oath.

The Chief of Police shall direct the investigation of the application for a license and may deny same provided that written reasons are submitted to the Clerk-Treasurer by the Chief of Police and given to the applicant.

Sec. 18-4. Same - fee.
The amount to be paid for a license under this chapter shall be five dollars ($5.00) for one (1) day and twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for one (1) week, in conformity with the application. Any sponsored event where there is to be more than ten (10) peddlers, hawkers, solicitors and itinerant vendors, as defined in Section 18-1, shall be permitted and required to have one (1) license covering all vendors for the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per day, said application to be completed by an authorized member of the sponsoring group.

The fees required under this section shall be paid at the time the application is submitted to the Clerk-Treasurer in order to cover the expenses of processing the application. In the event that a license is not issued, the town will retain the processing fee.

Sec. 18-5. Same - Issuance.
The Clerk-Treasurer shall make out all licenses granted to peddlers, hawkers, itinerant vendors and solicitors under this chapter and each license shall be properly signed by the Clerk-Treasurer, the President of the Town Council and the Chief of Police, upon the Clerk-Treasurer having received from the applicant the proper sum for such license and all other terms of this chapter having been complied with.

Sec. 18-6. Same - Term.
No license shall be issued under this chapter for less than one (1) day, or longer than one (1) week.

Sec. 18-7. Same - Exhibition upon demand required.
It shall be unlawful for any peddler, hawker, itinerant vendor, solicitor, or other person to refuse to show his license when requested to do so by any person to whom he shall offer to sell any goods, wares, or merchandise, or to any Police Officer of this town when so requested.

Sec. 18-8. Restrictions as to hours of sale.
It shall be unlawful for any peddler, hawker, itinerant vendor, solicitor, or other person to sell, solicit for sale any goods, wares or merchandise within the Town except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of each week day and 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Saturday of each week.

Sec. 18-9. Exemptions.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to sales made to the dealers by commercial travelers, or to sheriffs, constables, administrators, guardians, receivers, or other properly elected and qualified officers, nor to sales by producers of farm or dairy products, where such produce was raised or produced on the premises of the seller, nor shall it apply to the sale of newspapers by one who has a regular and established route for sale of the same.

Sec. 18-10. Violations; penalty.
Violations of this chapter shall be prosecuted in accordance with the Ordinance Violations Bureau.