Every person, whether principal or agent, entering into or desiring to begin a transient retail business within the City of Coatesville for the sale of any goods, ware or merchandise and who hires a place or occupies any room, apartment, store, building, structure or outdoor place whatever within the city for the exhibition and/or sale of such goods, wares or merchandise shall, before commencing such sale, obtain a license from the Codes Department.
[Amended 3-25-1996 by Ord. No. 1012-96]
The fee to be paid for such license shall be as provided in Chapter 108, Fees, for each month or fractional part thereof and shall be collected by the Codes Department before he or she shall issue any license under the provisions of this article. Such license shall be renewed monthly by the Codes Department upon payment of the license fee herein provided.
Nothing contained in this Article shall be construed to apply to farmers selling their own produce; the sale of goods, wares and merchandise donated by the owners thereof, the proceeds whereof are to be applied to any charitable or philanthropic; or any manufacturer or producer in the sale of bread or bakery products, meat and meat products or milk products.
[Amended 3-25-1996 by Ord. No. 1012-96]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article by failing to secure the license required thereby or to renew such license, as the case may be, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution or to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 90 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, provided that each day's violation of any of the provisions of this article shall constitute a separate offense.