The purpose of this chapter is to prevent fraud, crime and unethical
and dishonest business practices. All application fees are not charged
as revenue but for the purpose of covering the expenses or investigation.
All license and permit fees are to cover the regulation and control
of licenses and permits.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any person traveling from house to house or from street to
street taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods,
wares or merchandise, subscriptions or personal property of any nature
whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or
performed in the future, whether or not the individual has, carries
or exposes for sale a sample of such or whether he is collecting advance
payment on such sales or not; any person engaged in soliciting information
and going from house to house or from street to street for the purpose
of conducting a poll, survey or similar activity for any purpose;
any person conducting a solicitation, as defined herein, or requesting
contributions of any kind and going from house to house or from street
to street on the public streets.
Any person which is or holds itself out to be organized or
operated for any charitable purpose.
Any person traveling f om house to house or from street to
street carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares and merchandise,
offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales of food by
traveling from house to house or who shall sell or offer the same
for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, motor truck, railroad car
or other vehicle or conveyance, and further provided that one who
solicits orders and, as a separate transaction, makes deliveries to
purchasers a part of his scheme or design to evade the provisions
of this chapter shall be deemed a "peddler," subject to the provisions
of this chapter. The word "peddler" shall often include the words
"hawker" and "huckster."
Any individual, organization, trust, foundation, association,
partnership, corporation, society or other group or combination acting
as a unit.
The request, directly or indirectly, for the donation of
money, property, anything of value or financial assistance of any
kind, and shall include the selling or offering for sale of any property,
real or personal, tangible or intangible, whether of value or not,
including but not limited to goods, books, tags, service emblems,
tickets, publications or subscriptions to publications or brochures,
and conducted from house to house or on the public streets. A "solicitation"
is complete when the solicitation is communicated to any individual
then located within the corporate limits of the Borough.
