HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015 Peddlers, Solicitors and CanvassersORDINANCE NO. ~}~
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND
CANVASSERS, PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, IN REGULAR
SESSION ASSEMBLED DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Definitions
(a) The work "person" as used herein shall include the
singular and the plural and shall also mean and include any
person, form or corporation, association, club or partnership,
society, or any other organization except as otherwise pro-
vided in this ordinance.
(b) The work "peddler" as used herein shall include any
person, whether a resident of the City of Port Townsend or
not, travelling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any
other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to
house, or from street to street, carrying, conveying or trans-
porting goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish~, vegetables,
fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, magazines,
peridocals or other personal property, offering and exposing
the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to
purchasers, or who, without travelling from place to palce
shall sell or offfer the same for sale from a wagon, automotive
vehicle, or any other vehicle or conveyance,and further provided,
that one who solicits orders and as a separate transaction makes
deliveries to purchasers as a part of a scheme or design to
evade the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a peddler
subject to the provisions of this ordinance. The work "peddler"
shall include the woldS "hawker" and "huckster."
(c) A "Canvasser" or"Solicitor" is defined as any<'individual
whether resident of the City of Port Townsend or not, either
travelling by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck, or any other
type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house or
from street to street, taking or attemptint to take orders for
the sale of goods, wares , merchandise, or personal property
of any nature whatsoever, including but not limited to those
items descrimd in subsection (b) of this section, for future
delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the
future, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes
for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether he is
collecting advance payments on sucy sale or not, provided, that
such definition~shall not include any person who, for himself
or for another person, firm or corporation, hires, leases, uses
or occupies any building, structure, tent, boat, hotel room,
lodging house, apartment, shop or any other place withint the
City for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking order
for future delivery from such place.
(d) "City" shall mean the City of Port Townsend.
Section 2. Enforcement
~.~ ..... ~Shall be the duty of any police officer of the City to
enforce the provisions of this ordinance against any per~0n fouhd
to be violating the same.
Section 3. Unlawful conduct.
Peddling, soliciting or canvassing as defined in this
ordinance at a private residence or residences in the City without
a request or invitation in advance to do so by the ower or oc-
cupant of such private residence, for the purpose of the sale or
the soliciation of orders for the sale of any goods, products,
services, or personal property, including b6t not limited to
all items listed in Sections l(a) and (b) of this Ordinance,
is unlawful.
Section 4. Penalties
Any person violating this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for
not more than ninety days or by a fine of not more than One
Thousand Dollars, or by both such fine and imprisionment.
Section 5.
Severabi!~ty
If any provision or part of this ordinance is for any reason
helb to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this ordinance, but~' they shall
remain in effect.
Section 6.
Effective Date
This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage, approval
and publication in the form and manner provided by law.
Read for~the fist, second and third times, passed by the
City Council of Port Townsend and approved by the Mayor on this
16th day of July, 1985.
Attest:
DAVID GROVE, City Clerk
Appro~d as t~o f~:
K~ITH C. P~A~E~, Ci%y Attorney
MAYOR BRENT SHIRLEY~,/