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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 12.15.1949 - Peddlers20 m PEDDLING ORDINANCE An ordinance regulating the sale of bankrupt, fire, or water damaged stocks of merchandise or goods, wares, merchandise or any other commodity by itinerant merchants; regulating the soliciting, selling or taking orders for goods, wares, merchandise, sub- scriptions to magazines or newspapers, exposing photographic plates or films to make negatives, or make pictures or photo- graphs for future delivery or any other article for future delivery by any person who goes from house to house or from place to place in the City of Georgetown, Texas; requiring such person to apply for and obtain a permit or license therefore; requiring a surety or other bond where applicant for permit or license will re- ceive, demand, and/or accept payments and/or deposit money in advance of delivery of articles sold; fixing fees to be charged for various classes of licenses or permits; providing a penalty for the violation of this ordinance in any amount not exceeding $100, and declaring an emergency. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas: Section I. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any itinerant merchant who may remove from place to place and sell or offer for sale any bankrupt, fire or water damaged stock of merchandise, or goods, wares, or any other commodity or for any person to go from house to house or from place to place in the City of Georgetown, Texas, soliciting, selling, or taking orders for goods, wares, merchandise, subscriptions to magazines or news- papers, to expose plates or films to make negatives, to make pictures or photographs for future delivery, or any article for future delivery without first applying for and obtaining a per- mit or license to do so from the City Manager of the City of Georgetown, Texas. Section II. That any person desiring to engage in the business of itinerant merchant or that of peddling within the cor- porate limits of the City of Georgetown, Texas, shall make written application for a permit or license to do so to the City Manager of the City of Georgetown, which application shall show the name 21 and address of the applicant, the name and address of person, firm or corporation which such applicant represents, the kind of goods, wares and merchandise offerred for sale, and whether such applicant upon any such order so obtained will demand, accept or receive payment or deposit of money in advance of final delivery, and the period of time such applicant wishes to so solicit, sell or take orders in the City of Georgetown. Such written application shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty cents and no permit hereunder shall be issued, un- til such fee has been paid by applicant and such written application has been so filed with the City Manager of the City of Georgetown, Texas, for a period of twenty-four hours. Section III. Where the application for such permit and/ or license herein provided shows that the applicant will not demand, receive or accept payment, and/or deposit of money in advance of final delivery of such goods, wares, merchandise, or articles to be sold, and/ or solicited by such applicant, it shall be the duty of the City Manager of the City of Georgetown to issue to such applicant a permit to solicit, sell and take orders for such goods, wares, merchandise, and/or articles set out in such applicant's application for such permit within the City of Georgetown, for a period of twelve months, except that of itinerant merchants, from the date of the issuance of such permit. If the application shows that such appli- cant shall receive, demand, and/or accept payment, and/or deposit of money in advance of final delivery of goods, wares, merchandise, and/ or article sold, then such application shall be accompanied by a bond in the penal sum of Five Hundred 0500.00) Dollars executed by such applicant as principal and a surety company licensed to do business in the State of Texas, or by two financially responsible owners of property situated in the State of Texas subject to execu- tion of the value in double of the amount of said bond, continued upon making final delivery of such goods, wares, merchandise, maga- zines, newspapers, plates, films, and photographs and articles in accordance with the terms of such order and/or orders obtained and which bond shall be for the use and benefit of all persons, firms r or corporations who may pay in advance or make any advance deposit on the purchase price of said orders, and shall stipulate in its terms. Section IV. The City Manager of the City of Georgetown shall issue license upon the payment of the following fees, to - wit: For itinerant merchants offering for sale bankrupt stock, fire and water damaged stock, or goods, wares, merchandise, or any other commodity for a limited time of one month or less, $50.00. For each additional month for each of the next five months or fraction, $10.00. If merchant liable to above named fee remains more than sig months and up to twelve months for each additional month or fraction thereof, $5.00. For traveling medicine vendors, $25.00 For medical specialists, $25.00. For making negatives, exposing plates or films or making photographs of pictures, $25.00. For magazine or newspaper subscriptions, $5.00. For peddling, using motor vehicle, $25.00. For peddling, using horsedrawn vehicles, $7.50. For foot peddlers, V5.00. Provided persons offering for sale agricultural pro- ducts, meats, poultry, or other articles of food grown or pro- duced by such persons shall not be required to pay the license fees, but license shall be issued to such persons by the City Manager upon satisfactory proof that they have produced or grown the products to be peddled and such license shall so state. All licenses to be issued for period of twelve (12) months from date of issuance. Section V. That such licenses shall not be issued to any person authorizing peddling in the fire limits, any and all peddling is prohibited in the fire limits of the City of Georgetown as now or that may hereafter be established by ordinance. Section VI. That it shall be unlawful for any peddler to take a stand, or stop, or stand his vehicle on any public street within the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown, for a longer time than ten (10) minutes. 23 Section VII. That all peddlers shall in all respects comply with all other ordinances of the City of Georgetown, applicable to such persons; and this ordinance shall not be construed to repeal any of"the health, sanitary, or food ordinances of the City of Georgetown, but shall be cumulative thereof. Section VIII. That any person violating any of the pro- visions of this ordinance shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not more than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars; and each and every day any person shall peddle without a license shall be a separate offense. Section IX. That, if any section, subdivision, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or void, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The tact that it is necessary to make prompt provisions for the defining and regulating of itinerant merchants, and etc., creates an emergency and makes it necessary that the rules requiring that ordinance be read at three separate meetings before final passage be suspended and ordered to take effect from its passage. PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.D., 1949. Mayor ty,f eorgetown, Texas ATTEST: ty Secretary, ty o �Georgetom n, Texas, -------------------