[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Lower Merion 9-16-1931 by Ord. No. 405.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person, firm, association or corporation shall engage in any transient
retail business within the Township of Lower Merion without having first obtained
a license from the Township Secretary as hereinafter provided.
Upon application made in a form prescribed by the Police Committee of
the Board of Commissioners, and upon payment of the license fee hereinafter
prescribed, the Township Secretary shall issue a license for a period of 30
days, subject to renewal, to any person, firm, association or corporation
to engage in any transient retail business. Such license may be renewed for
a period of 30 days by application in the same manner to the Township Secretary
and upon payment of the license fee hereinafter prescribed for each thirty-day
period. Each such license shall set forth such conditions as shall be prescribed
by the Police Committee for the conduct of such business and may be revoked
by order of said Police Committee at any time if there shall have been committed
any breach of such conditions or of any of them; and in the event of such
revocation of any such license, no portion of the license fee paid therefor
shall be refunded.
[Amended 4-20-1955 by Ord. No. 1114; 9-21-1977
by Ord. No. 1802]
The license fee to be paid under this chapter shall be as set forth
in the Township Schedule of Fees, as adopted and amended from time to time
by the Board of Commissioners.[1]
[Amended 9-21-1977 by Ord. No. 1802; 8-3-1988
by Ord. No. 3104]
Any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in any transient
retail business within the Township of Lower Merion without having first obtained
a license therefor, issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,
shall forfeit and pay a fine or penalty of $600 for each and every offense,
to be collected before any District Justice as like fines or penalties are
now collectible by law.
