[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Larchmont
5-15-1967 as Ch. V of the Revised General Ordinances, as amended through 8-4-1975.
Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
The pursuit or exercise of any of the following trades
or occupations within the Village of Larchmont without a license is hereby
prohibited:
[Amended 9-14-1987 by L.L.
No. 4-1987]
(1)
The operation of a vehicle or vehicles by the operator
thereof in his/her own behalf or in behalf of, or as employee or agent for,
any other individual, corporation, association, partnership or group over
or upon the streets of the Village of Larchmont for hire and the solicitation
of fares, fees or other compensation for such operation anywhere within the
Village of Larchmont.
(2)
The operation of sales at auction.
(3)
Selling, hawking, peddling and soliciting.
(a)
Nothing in this section shall be held to apply to:
[1]
Sales conducted pursuant to statute or court order.
[2]
Sales, the prohibition of which would interfere unlawfully
with interstate commerce.
[3]
Sales at wholesale to dealers.
[4]
Sales by merchants having an established place of business
within the Village of Larchmont or sales or solicitations by employees of
such merchants.
[5]
Sales by farmers, berry pickers and truck gardeners who,
through themselves or their employees, sell products of their own farms or
gardens.
(b)
Persons licensed pursuant to § 32 of the General
Business Law of the State of New York shall be required to procure a local
license hereunder in accordance with the provisions of Subdivision 8 of said
§ 32.
(c)
Anything in the foregoing provisions of this section to the contrary notwithstanding, the practice of going in and upon private residences and other residential units in the Village of Larchmont, New York, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise, not having been permitted, requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of said private residences or other residential units, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise and services and/or disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same is hereby declared to be a nuisance and punishable as such nuisance as set forth in § 185-6 hereunder.
(4)
The giving of exhibitions, performances, entertainment
or entertainments in and the use of, operation of or participation in the
operation of, in the Village of Larchmont, for money or hire, a place or places
of amusement, entertainment or exhibition, including public halls, public
dance halls, moving-picture houses, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, billiard
or pool parlors, and places offering varied or other amusement or entertainment
to the public. This section shall not be held to apply to the use or operation
of any religious, charitable or educational institution where the proceeds
from the use or operation shall be devoted exclusively to charitable, benevolent
or religious purposes nor to the use or operation of space for local amateur
amusement, entertainment or exhibition.
(5)
The use of, operation of or participation, in any way,
in the operation of any room, space or spaces in the Village of Larchmont
where musical entertainment, singing, dancing or other similar amusement or
entertainment is permitted in connection with the restaurant business or the
business of directly or indirectly selling to the public food or drink, to
which the public is admitted with or without payment of fee.
(6)
The landing within the Village of Larchmont of excursion
boats or passengers therefrom.
(7)
Blasting.
(8)
Distributing samples, pamphlets, etc.
(a)
Distributing samples of merchandise, commodities, medical
or food products, circulars, handbills or throwaways or other printed matter
on the highways or in hallways or on doorsteps or otherwise in the Village
of Larchmont is prohibited without first securing a written permit from the
Chief of Police.
(b)
The Chief of Police shall, before he/she grants such
a permit, satisfy himself as to the character of the individual distributing
such matter, the reason for such distribution, the number of persons to be
involved in such distribution and the manner in which such distribution is
to be conducted.
B.
No license shall be granted for the use or operation
of any place that does not comply with or is prohibited by the laws of the
State of New York, the codes of the County of Westchester and the local laws,
ordinances and regulations of the Village of Larchmont.
A.
All applications for licenses required in § 185-1 shall be in writing and shall be passed on by the Mayor, who, when he/she approves the same, shall instruct the Clerk to issue such license, specifying the fee to be paid therefor, to such persons as he/she shall deem fit and proper for such trade or occupations in § 185-1A(3) and (4) above specified, who shall, in the judgment of the Mayor, be unlikely to disturb the peace and order of the village or be immoral or improper.
B.
Every such license shall be countersigned by the Clerk,
who shall keep a record thereof and of the amount of the fee to be paid therefor,
and upon presentation of such license to the Treasurer, so signed and countersigned,
and the payment to the Treasurer of such fee, the Treasurer shall endorse
thereon his/her receipt of the license fee. The license shall not take effect
until the receipt of the Treasurer shall have been endorsed thereon.
C.
Any applicant, who shall have been refused such license
by the Mayor, may apply to the Board therefor at a meeting thereof, and the
same may be granted or refused by the Board.
D.
All licenses shall have endorsed thereon the following:
"This license is revocable." The Mayor may suspend any such license until
the next meeting of the Board, and, thereupon, said license may be revoked
or continued by the Board.
A.
License fees shall be as fixed by the Village Board from
time to time.
[Amended 5-21-1984 by L.L.
No. 1-1984]
B.
Except for auctioneers' licenses, said fees are for a
license period of six months to one year. For a license period of less than
six months, the respective fees shall be 1/2 of said amounts (April 1 to September
30 or October 1 to March 31).
Every license shall expire March 31 succeeding the date of the issuance
thereof and may be revoked at any time by the Board for good cause.
[Amended 5-21-1984 by L.L.
No. 1-1984]
Fees, as fixed by the Village Board from time to time, are hereby established
for the issuance of transcripts of such police records as are available to
the public, and said fees shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Village of
Larchmont.
[Added 5-4-1981 by L.L. No.
3-1981]
Any person committing an offense against this chapter shall, upon conviction,
be subject to a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding
15 days, or to 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.
