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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Regulating Peddlers, Repealing Ordinance 571 i TEMPORARY ORD. NO. 21 Permanent Ord. No. 772 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING PEDDLERS, PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND LICENSING OF PEDDLERS, EXCEPTING CERTAIN ARTICLES AND PERSONS FROM THE OPERATION OF SAID ORDINANCE, PROVIDING FOR A HEALTH AND CHARACTER EXAMINATION OF PEDDLERS OF FOOD PRODUCTS OFFERED FOR SALE, REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 571, AND ESTABLISHING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA: f I j Section 1. Definition. Any person who travels, either by foot, by wagon, automobile, motor truck or by any other conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, within the City of Armes, carrying and offering or exposing for sale, goods, wares, merchandise or food products, or who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers for sale from a wagon, automobile, motor truck, or other conveyance, stationed upon a street or alley, such goods, wares, merchandise or food products, and any person who ships in said goods, wares, merchandise or food products in carload lots to be i sold or offered for sale direct to the consumer or user from the railroad car, shall be deemed a peddler and subject to the provisions of this ordinance. Section 2. Exceptions. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to the sale of newspapers, dairy products, or to a produ6er, raiser, or grower of farm products or to the employee of such person or to person or persons operating pop corn stands. I Section 3. Compliance. It shall be unlawful for any person to pursue or I{ engage in the occupation of a peddler as above defined without first having complied with the provisions of this ordinance. Section 4. Health Examination. Any peddler desiring to travel from house to house shall apply to the city health officer for a health certificate and pay the health officer for said examination. If said health officer, after an examination, 1 shall find the applicant in proper health, without evidence of any contagious I disease, he shall issue him a certificate good for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days; otherwise it shall be refused. Section 5. Examination of Products. Any person intending to sell or offer for sale any food or food products shall apply to the city sanitarian for i� an inspection and examination of his products and said applicant shall bring the I said products to such place as the said officer may direct for such examination IIIand inspection. The said officer shall inspect and examine the food products; ani if he shall find that they are in proper sanitary and wholesome condition, he sha7.11' iissue a certificate accordingly; otherwise he shall refuse such certificate. The I city sanitarian may require that persons offering farm products for sale to �I produce satisfactory evidence they are bonafide producers, raisers, or growers 1 �I of such products, or are the employees of such. I Section 6_ Character examination. Any peddler desiring to pursue his occupation by traveling from house to house, in addition to the provisions of Section 4, shall apply to the chief of police for a certificate of good character, !I and shall pay the city clerx� the sum of $1. 00 plus any expense incurred in making such investigation. If the said officer shall find the applicant to be of good character and responsible, he shall issue a certificate accordingly; iotherwise it shall be refused. Section 7_ Requirements for License. When the said applicant shall have obtained the proper certificates as provided in the foregoing sections, he shall I apply to the city clerk for a peddler's license. I Section 8. Fees. Upon payment of the fees hereinafter set forth, the city clerk shall issue a peddler's license: (a) for goods, wares, merchandise or farm products sold or offered for it sale from a conveyance, the sum of $5. 00 shall be charged for the first day and I� t $3. 00 for each and every consecutive day thereafter; (b) for goods, wares, merchandise or farm products parried afoot, the sum of $2. 00 for the first day and $1. 00 for each and every consecutive day thereafter; and (c) for goods, wares, merchandise or farm products to be sold direct to the consumer or user from the railroad car, the sum of $10. 00 per car for the first day and $5. 00 for each and every consecutive daythereafter. Section 9. Payments. At the time application is made to the city cleric for the issuance of a peddler's license, the applicant shall state to the clerk the number of days he intends to pursue his occupation, and whether said occupation shall be pursued from afoot, conveyance, or railroad car, and shall pay to said clerk the sums required by the preceding section. Section 10. Time Restriction. All peddlers' licenses, when issued, shall provide that said licenses shall be in force and effect between the hours of sunrise and sunset on week days only. Section 11. Disposition of Fees. All fees collected by the city clerk shall be credited to the general fund. Section 12. Peddling Restricted. Peddling shall not be conducted from stands upon the public streets. Section 13. Food Products. Food products sold along or upon the streets or from railroad cars, shall at all times be subject toinspection by the city sanitarian; and this inspection shall apply to the quantity, weights, measure, and sanitation of the article offered for sale. Unwholesome, rotten, or decayed foods shall not be sold or offered for sale and it shall be the duty of the city sanitarian to condemn such foods, wherever found. Section 14. Vehicles. Vehicles upon which food is carried, the container in which the same are handled and the food products shall be clean and sanitary, protected by proper cover or screens against filth, dust, flies, or other contaminating substances. Section 15. Penalty for Violation. Any person who shall pursue or attempt to pursue the business or occupation of a peddler, as hereinbefore defined, without having obtained the license provided for or vthout having complied with all other provisions of this ordinance, shabll be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or to a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars. Section 16. Repeal. Ordinance No. 571 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 17. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. Passed this llth day of January, 1955. J. W. Prather, City Clerk J. P. Lawlor, Mayor Moved by Griffith and seconded by Bliss that Temporary Ord. No. 21 be passed on its first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart Moved by Bliss and seconded by Bolton that the rules gover-ng the passage of ordinances be suspended, the second and third readings omitted and Temporary Ord. No. 21 be placed on its final passage. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay; None Absent: De Hart Moved by Smith and seconded by Bliss that Temporary Ord. No. 21 do now pass. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: No.ie Absent: De Hart Mayor Lawlor declared Temporary Ord. No. 21 duly adopted. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 772 was duly and properly adopted by the City Council at a meeting on January 11, 1955a nd published by codifying on the day of 19 J. W. Prather, City Clerk