[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Massena 7-29-1976.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person shall engage in hawking, vending, peddling
or soliciting orders of goods, wares, merchandise or other commodities, except
meat, fish, fruit and farm produce by farmers and persons who produce such
commodities, in the streets and public places or by going from house to house
in said town, without first obtaining a license therefor from the Town Clerk
of said town and paying the license fee hereinafter imposed.
B.
There is hereby imposed on the trade or occupation of
hawking, vending or peddling a license fee of $50 per year.
There is hereby imposed on the trade or occupation of soliciting orders
in the streets or public places, by going from house to house in said town,
a license fee of $50 per year.
A.
No person shall set up or erect a stand or booth or use
any stand, booth, wagon, cart or other device upon any of the streets or public
grounds in said town for the purpose of selling or vending goods or merchandise
of any kind without first obtaining a license therefor from the Town Clerk
of said town and paying the license fee hereinafter imposed.
B.
On each stand, booth, wagon, cart or other device so
erected or used there is hereby imposed a license fee of $10 per month; provided,
however, that a license for one full year may be granted for a license fee
of $50 per year.
Any person committing an offense against any provisions of this chapter
or regulation shall be guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not exceeding
$250 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions
of this chapter shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a
separate and distinct offense hereunder.
