1357 ORD DEFINING AND REGULATING ITINERANT MERCHANTS ET AL SELLING OR TAKING ORDERS FOR GOODS, ETCURDINANCE tvU. _.1~5"l - •
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND REGUI~ITING ITIiNERANT MERCHANTS ) ITINERANT
VENDORS PEDDLERS AP~`D PERSONS SELLING OR TAKING ORDERS FOR GOODS 9 VdAFi€S )
r~gERCHAdDISE, SERVIGES, PHCTOGRAPHS 2 NEVJSPAFERS ~%AGAZIivES, OR SUUSCRIPTIOPdS
TO IZu`lSPAFERS OR bipGAZINES; PROVIDING FOR A LICEN5E AND LICENSE FEE, AND
PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIGLATIGN GF Tt;IS ORDIr:ANCE9 INCLUDING FINE OF
NOT LESS THAN $10.00 NOR I00RE THf►N $200.00.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY GOUNCIL QF THE CITY OF FARIS~ TEXASs
Section 1. This entire ordinance is and shall be deemed an exer-
cise of the police power of the State of Texas, and of the City of Paris,
for tr,e pub1ay, ndfall, conveniencnd beeconstrued
citizens of saici City, a
for the accomplishment of that pu,rpnseo
aection 2o That it shall hereafter be ur,lawfu1 for any person to
go from house to house cr from nlace to place in the City of ?aris~ Texas,
solicitina, selling or taking orders fcr or offeriny to sell or take or-
Gers for any goods, wores, merchandise, services, pnotoyraphs, newspapers,
magazines, or subscriptions to newspapers or magazines, without having
first applied for and cbtained a license so to dc from the City P.lanager of
sai.d City. It shall also 'tlereafter be unlawful tc sell or solicit in said
city as Gioresaid vJithout carrying sucr: license wiiile er.gageG in such se-
licitiry or selling.
Section 3. That any person desiring to go from house to house or
from place to place in the City of Faris, Texas, to sell or solicit orders
fox ooods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs, newsDapers, maga-
zir.es, ox subscriptior.s to newspapers or magazines, shall make written
application to the City iianager of saia City for a license so to do, wrich
application shall show the name and address of applicant, the name and
address of tne person, firm, or corporation, if any, that he or she repre-
serts and the kind of yoods offered ior sale, and whether such applicant
upon any such sale or order shali demand, accept or receive payrierit or de-
posit of rnor.ey in advance of fir,al delivery, and the period of time such
applicant wisties to sell or solicit in said City. The registrant at the
ti,;:e of the registrGtion, as hes-ein provided fcr~ shall submit for in-
spection of the Gity idianGger written proof of his identity whicY: may be in
the form of an automobile operator's license, identification letter or card
issued to registrant b-y the persnn, firm or corporation for whom or thrcugh
whcm orders are -to be solicited or clearec3.
Section 4. ThGt an itinerant merchant or an itinerant venclor as
the terms are used in this crdinance shall be held to be any persong firm,
company, partnership, corporation or associatiorl enr,aged in ar.y activity
mentioned in ~ectzon tvro hereof.
Section ~o That the license fee for an itinerant merchant or
itinerant veridor shall be $5.00. Provided, however, when any person, firm,
company, partnership, corporation or association engages in any activity
mentioned in Section two herecf through one er raore agents or employees
such persan, firm, compar.y, partnersnip, corporation or association shall~
in Gddition to sGic3 $5.00 fee above mentioned, pay a license fee cr $1.00
fox each aGent or employee su engaged, all of which licenses sh411 be
valid ror cr,e year frcm the date of their issuance. The fees herein pro-
viGed for snall be used fox the purpose of defraying expenses incident to
the issuing of said licenseso
Section 6. TYie provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to
sales made to dealers by commerc:ial travellers or sales agents in the usual
course of business, nor to sales made under authority arid by order of law,
ncr to vendors of farm ar dairy prcductso
Section 7. any persong firm or corporation violating any provisions
of this ordinance or failinc to observe any provisions hereof shGll be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall ae fined in any surr
nat less than $10.00 and not moxe than $200.00 and each and every day or
fraction of a day during which this ordinance~ or any part thereof, shall be
violated, shGll be deemed a separate offense and punishable as such.
5ection S. Each and every provision, paragraph, sentence and
clause of this ordinance has beeri separately considered and passed by the
City Council, and each said. prcvision tivould have been separately passed
without any other nrovisior., and if any provision hereof should be in-
effective, invalid, ox unconstitutional for any cause, it shall not im-
pair, nor affect the remaining nartion nor any other part thereof, but
the valid portion shall be enforced just as if it had been oassed alone,
and all ordinances and parts ef ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section 9. This ordinance shall become effective after publica-
tior, as required by law and on October 1, 1955.
Passed and adopted this I~'th day of September,
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City Clerko
APPRGVED AS TO FORNi:
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City r-+ttcrney.