[HISTORY: Adopted by the Orangetown Town Board 11-28-1951. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This ordinance shall be known and may be cited as the "Hawking
and Peddling Ordinance."
This ordinance is enacted for the purpose of regulating itinerant
merchandising in order that the peace, health, safety, welfare and
good order of the Town and its inhabitants shall not be endangered
or unduly disturbed.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A permanent building, store or depository in which or where
the person transacts business and deals in the goods, wares, food
and/or beverage products, property (real or personal), services or
commodities he hawks or peddles in the ordinary and regular course
of business.
[Amended 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
Shall be deemed to include, unless otherwise herein provided,
any person who engages in merchandising any goods, wares, commodities,
food and/or beverage products, property (real or personal) or services
by going from house to house, place of business to place of business,
or in any public street or public place, or by temporarily occupying
a room, building or other premises therefor.
[Amended 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
Refers to the selling, bartering or trading, or offering
to sell, purchase, barter or trade any goods, wares, commodities (including
food and/or beverage products), property (real or personal) or services.
[Amended 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
Shall be deemed to include any individual, firm, partnership,
corporation, unincorporated association and principal or agent thereof.
A store, room, building, tent, enclosure or structure of
any kind intended to be occupied for the period of time necessary
to hawk or peddler the merchandise or products therein housed initially
without the intent to replenish or restock such goods, wares and merchandise
sold therein. In all prosecutions for a violation of this ordinance
the intent of the defendant to conduct an established place of business
shall be material fact and the burden of proving such intent shall
be upon the defendant in such prosecution.
[Amended 4-14-1952; 4-12-2016 by L.L. No.
3-2016]
The merchandising of any goods, wares, commodities, food and/or
beverage products, property (real or personal) or services within
the Town of Orangetown without first having obtained a license therefor
from the Clerk of the Town is hereby prohibited unless such merchandising
is at the personal request of the person solicited.
The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to the following:
A.
An honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, who is crippled
as a result of injuries received while in the naval or military service
of the United States.
B.
The holder of a license granted pursuant to Article 4 of the General
Business Law of the State of New York.
[Amended 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
C.
A wholesaler selling articles to dealers or merchants who have an
established place of business within the Town.
D.
A truck gardener or farmer who himself or through his employees vends,
sells or disposes of products of his own farm or garden.
E.
A child regularly attending any public or parochial or private school
located within the Town of Orangetown or a representative of any established
church maintaining a place of worship with the Town or a member of
a veteran's organization, provided that such organization has
and maintains a chapter, post, lodge, camp or other group within the
Town of Orangetown, or a member of a fraternal organization or a civic
group, provided that such fraternal organization or civic group maintains
a chapter or local organization and further provided that any person
coming within the provisions of this exemption shall only hawk or
peddle in connection with an authorized activity of the organization
of which they are a member or the school which they attend.
F.
Auction sales held pursuant to law by a sheriff or other officer
authorized by law to conduct such sale.
G.
This local law shall not apply to sale of daily newspapers, nor shall
it be interpreted as intending to, nor shall it be construed to unlawfully
interfere with the conduct of interstate commerce or the impairment
of the rights of free speech, press or publication. It shall be construed
as implementing and not as limiting the purposes and provisions of
the New York State home solicitation sales act.[1]
[Amended 1-25-1982 by L.L. No. 2-1982]
[1]
Editor's Note: See the Personal Property Law, § 425
et seq.
H.
Any person soliciting at the express invitation of the person solicited
or serving an established customer.
[Added 4-14-1952]
I.
Any person who is operating a food and/or beverage concession on
Town-owned lands, or within a Town-owned park, playground or parklands,
under a subsisting license agreement or contract with the Town.
[Added 4-12-2016 by L.L.
No. 3-2016]
A.
Every applicant for a license is required to submit to the Town Clerk
a written application supplying, under oath, the following information:
(1)
Name of applicant.
(2)
Permanent home residence.
(3)
Name and address of firm represented, if any.
(4)
The length of time for which the license is required.
(5)
A description of the goods, wares, food and/or beverage products,
services or commodities to be offered for sale.
[Amended 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
(6)
The number of arrests or convictions for crimes and the nature thereof.
(7)
To the application must be appended a letter of authorization from
the firm which the applicant purports to represent.
(8)
All locations within the Town where the applicant intends to conduct
his hawking and/or peddling, with enough particularity so as to enable
the Town Clerk to render her determination as to the issuance of a
license.
[Added 4-12-2016 by L.L.
No. 3-2016]
(9)
Such other information as may reasonably be requested by the Town
Clerk and/or the Town Police Department.
[Added 4-12-2016 by L.L.
No. 3-2016]
B.
Every applicant for a hawking and peddling license issued pursuant
to this ordinance shall submit a photograph, two inches by two inches,
taken within 30 days of the date of the application for such license.
Such photograph shall show head, full face and shoulders of applicant
and shall be submitted in triplicate. One copy of the photograph shall
be attached to the license application, one copy of the photograph
to the license, and the third shall be delivered to the Chief of Police
of the Town of Orangetown.
[Added 4-14-1952]
C.
Each applicant for a hawking and peddling license shall have a fingerprint
impression of the fingers and thumbs on both hands taken by the Police
Department of the Town of Orangetown and the photograph delivered
to the Chief of Police shall be attached to the fingerprint identification
card and shall remain on file in the Orangetown Police Headquarters.
[Added 4-14-1952]
D.
The Town Clerk of the Town of Orangetown shall not issue a license
after the effective date of this amendment unless and until the applicant
shall furnish satisfactory proof of compliance with the provisions
hereof relating to fingerprint identification. On all applications
for renewal the applicant need only submit the photograph required
hereunder to the Town Clerk of the Town of Orangetown and the Chief
of Police of the Town of Orangetown unless the said Clerk or said
Chief of Police shall request a new fingerprint identification.
[Added 4-14-1952]
A.
Upon receipt of the application and of the license fee, and if reasonably
satisfied with the applicant's qualifications, the Town Clerk
shall issue a license to the applicant, specifying the particular
business authorized and the location wherein it may be conducted.
This license shall be nontransferable and shall be in the continuous
possession of the licensee while engaged in the business licensed.
The license shall be produced upon the demand of any Town official
or prospective buyer.
B.
Nothing contained in this chapter, as same may be amended from time
to time, shall permit hawking and peddling where otherwise prohibited
by any federal, state, county or Town law, ordinance, regulation or
statute; and the Town Clerk's issuance of a license under this
hawking and peddling chapter shall be subject to all other applicable
federal, state, county and Town laws, ordinances, regulations and
statutes that govern the hawking and/or peddling activities, operations
or conduct, and the compliance with such other laws, ordinances, regulations
and statutes shall be the responsibility, duty and obligation of the
hawker and peddler.
[Added 5-10-1982 by L.L. No. 4-1982; 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
A.
The Town Clerk shall keep a record of all applications, the determinations
thereon, and of all licenses issued in accordance with this ordinance.
The record shall contain the name and residence of the person licensed,
the location of the business, the amount of the license fee paid,
and the date of revocation of all licenses revoked.
B.
All licenses issued hereunder shall expire on the 31st day of December
of each year immediately following their issuance, except that a license
issued for a shorter period than one year shall expire at the expiration
of the period for which it is issued.
[Amended 4-14-1952; 1-25-1982 by L.L. No. 2-1982; 9-10-1991 by L.L. No.
20-1991; 1-8-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013]
The license fees for all licenses hereunder shall be set by
resolution of the Town Board.
[Amended 1-25-1982 by L.L. No. 2-1982; 5-10-1982 by L.L. No.
4-1982; 10-14-2003 by L.L. No. 4-2003; 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
A licensed hawker or peddler shall comply with the following restrictions, or be subject to the revocation of his or her license, pursuant to the provisions of § 18-11:
A.
Not willfully misstate the quantity or quality of any article offered
for sale.
B.
Not willfully offer for sale any article of an unwholesome or defective
nature.
C.
Not call attention to his goods, wares, commodities, food and/or
beverage products or services by blowing a horn, by ringing a bell
other than a house doorbell, by shouting or crying or by any loud
or unusual noise.
D.
Not frequent any street, road or highway in an exclusive nature so
as to cause a private or public nuisance.
E.
Keep the vehicle and/or receptacles used by him in the furtherance
of his licensed business in a sound, clean and sanitary condition.
F.
Keep his edible articles offered for sale well protected from dirt,
dust and insects.
G.
Not remain, stand nor permit any vehicle used by him to remain or
stand in one place in any public road, highway, public place or street
for more than 10 minutes. nor in front of any premises for any time
if the owner or any lessee of the premises objects, nor resume operations
during the same business day from a new location within 1/4 mile of
said former place or site. This subsection shall not apply to the
sale of prepared foods and/or the sale of beverages by vendors licensed
by the County of Rockland pursuant to Article 4 of the General Business
Law of the State of New York, and otherwise licensed, as may be required,
by the Rockland County Department of Health.
H.
Not create or maintain any booth or stand or place any barrels, boxes
or other obstructions upon any road, public place or street for the
purpose of selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares, commodities,
food and/or beverage products, or services or merchandise.
I.
Not sell silly string, or similar-type goods, or snap caps and stink
bomb devices, or similar projective devices during a parade or public
event in the Town of Orangetown.
J.
Not knock on, ring the doorbell of, enter the yard or driveway of,
or otherwise contact any home, homeowner or the occupant or occupants
of any home listed on the Town of Orangetown Do Not Knock Registry
maintained by the Town Clerk's office, and/or which displays
the Orangetown "Do Not Knock" decal, for the purpose of hawking or
peddling or merchandising.
K.
Not hawk, peddle or otherwise solicit between the hours of 8:00 p.m.
and 9:00 a.m.
L.
Not conduct himself or herself in such a manner likely to unreasonably
annoy, alarm or harass an occupant of any house.
M.
Not show or display his or her hawk and peddle license, when requested
by any person solicited or any police officer.
N.
Not make any material misrepresentation regarding himself or herself,
or the entity he or she represents, or the product or service involved
on the license application, or while doing business in Town, including
but not limited to, whether he or she has been convicted of a crime
of dishonesty or moral turpitude.
O.
Not otherwise conduct himself or herself in a manner likely to endanger
the health, safety or general welfare of the public.
A license may be summarily revoked by the Town Clerk by reason
of a violation of the terms of the license; the violation of any municipal
ordinance, state or federal statute; or for falsification in applying
for a license. Written notice of such revocation, stating the terms
therefor, shall be personally served upon the licensee or mailed to
the address given in the application. Upon the filing of such notice
of revocation in the Town Clerk's office, with affidavit of service
by mailing, such license shall be revoked. A hearing upon the revocation
of the license shall be granted the licensee if said licensee shall
request such a hearing as hereinafter provided.
[Amended 10-27-1958]
In the event of the revocation of a license pursuant to the provisions of § 18-11 hereof or in the event of the denial of a license to any applicant by the Clerk or the refusal of the Chief of Police to countersign a license, the applicant may request a hearing within a period of 30 days after such revocation, refusal and denial. Such request shall be in writing and shall be made to the Town Board of the Town of Orangetown and filed with the Town Clerk within the period provided herein. The Town Board shall hear such applicant's request for a review of the determination of the Town Clerk or the Chief of Police at the next regularly scheduled meeting of said Town Board following the filing of the application for review with the Town Clerk. The Town Board may grant a license to the applicant if it should determine that the refusal on the part of the Clerk or the Chief of Police was arbitrary or otherwise in error. If the Town Board after such hearing shall determine that the decision of the Town Clerk or Chief of Police was not arbitrary and was justified under the circumstances, the Board shall refuse such license. The decision on any hearing shall be rendered by the Town Board in writing within 45 days after the hearing thereof and shall be entered in the minutes of the Town Board.
[Added 4-12-2016 by L.L.
No. 3-2016[1]]
A.
The Town Clerk shall prepare and maintain a list of addresses where
the owner and/or occupant has notified the Clerk that hawking and
peddling is not desired (hereinafter referred to as the "Do Not Knock
Registry"). Notification shall be by completion of a form available
at the Town Clerk's office during normal business hours. The
list shall be updated as needed by the Town Clerk.
B.
Any owner and/or occupant requesting to be enrolled on the Do Not Knock Registry, pursuant to Subsection A hereof, may also obtain from the Town Clerk a decal for display at his/her/its premises, reflecting the premises enrollment on the Do Not Knock Registry.
C.
The Town Clerk shall make available the then-current Do Not Knock
Registry to all licensees at the time the license to hawk and peddle
is issued or renewed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. It
shall be a violation of this chapter for any licensee to hawk or peddle
or merchandise at any premises identified on the then-current Do Not
Knock Registry.
[Amended 10-25-1993 by L.L. No. 16-1993; 10-16-1995 by L.L. No.
30-1995; 4-12-2016 by L.L. No. 3-2016]
Any person who shall act as a hawker or peddler as herein defined
without a license or who shall violate any of the provisions of this
chapter or who shall continue to act as a hawker or peddler subsequent
to the revocation of his license shall be subject to a penalty as
follows:
A.
For a first offense, a fine of not less than $500 and not more than
$1,500;
B.
For a second offense within 24 months, as measured from occurrence
to occurrence, a fine of not less than $1,500 and not more than $3,500;
and
C.
For a third, or more, offense within 24 months, a fine of not less
than $3,500 and not more than $10,000, or imprisonment not to exceed
30 days, or both.
If any portion of this ordinance shall be declared invalid for
any reason, the remainder thereof shall not by that reason be deemed
invalid and shall continue in full force and effect.
