As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PEDDLER
Any person engaging in peddling within the Borough.
PEDDLING
Engaging in selling any goods, wares or merchandise for immediate
delivery, upon any of the streets or sidewalks, or from house to house,
within the Borough.
PERSON
Any person, natural person, association, firm, partnership,
corporation, syndicate, organization, institution, agency, authority,
or other entity recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
The singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include
the feminine, other genders and the neuter.
PHOTOGRAPHER
Any peddler, solicitor, hawker, or transient person or retail
merchant, engaging in photography or videography or the taking of
orders for photograph sessions within the Borough.
SOLICITING and HAWKING
The taking of orders for goods, wares or merchandise, including
but not limited to subscriptions for magazines or other printed matter,
and the obtaining of contracts for home and building devices, repairs
and improvements, and other services, upon any of the streets or sidewalks,
or from house to house, within the Borough, by any person without
a permanent place of business in the Borough.
TRANSIENT VENDOR and TRANSIENT SALES LICENSE
A license issued to any person, firm or corporation, as principal
or agent, or both, which engages in, does or transacts any temporary
or transient business in this Borough for six months or less, either
in one locality or in traveling from place to place in this Borough,
offering for sale or selling goods, wares, merchandise, food or beverages,
and including those who, for the purpose of carrying on such business,
hire, lease, use or occupy any permanent or mobile building, structure,
motor vehicle including trucks, or real estate for the exhibition
by means of samples, catalogues, photographs and price lists or sale
of such goods, wares or merchandise.
A.Â
No person shall sell or offer for sale, order or exchange, or
go from door to door soliciting the purchase of, or gift of any products,
wares, merchandise, retail food, or other articles of value or any
money, or any services, in any place, in, upon, along or through the
streets, alleys or other public places within the Borough, unless
he is the holder of a license which is in full force and effect issued
pursuant to provisions of this chapter. Such person shall at all times
have the license with him while exercising such calling, and shall
exhibit the license at all times in plain view, and present it to
any Borough officer, official or resident upon demand.
B.Â
This section shall not apply to any person engaged in the sale
and distribution of items as and at a farmers market food vendor;
children under the age of 18 years who take orders and deliver fundraising
items; fundraisers that directly support a charity, school, child-based
club, or organization; newspaper carriers along their regular delivery
routes; or any Borough business that already engages in retail sales
in the Borough and pays mercantile or business privilege taxes.
The Borough Manager, or his designee, and the Code Enforcement
Officer are hereby empowered to make reasonable rules and regulations
for the operation and enforcement of this chapter, including but not
limited to: establishing the form of applications, establishing acceptable
forms of security or guarantees, inspector certifications, acknowledgments
and certifications, and licensing.
All relevant ordinances, regulations, and policies of the Borough
of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, not amended shall remain in full force
and effect.
Nothing in this chapter shall limit in any fashion whatsoever
the Borough's right to enforce its ordinances or laws of the
Commonwealth. Nothing in this chapter shall be a defense to any citation,
ticket, or other charges issued by any municipal corporation or the
Commonwealth pursuant to any law or ordinance.
This chapter shall be effective immediately upon enactment or
as soon thereafter as the applicable laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
allow.