HomeMy WebLinkAbout1947-0102 - Ordinance - 03/13/1947ORDINANCE NO. 102.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PEDDLING AND SALE OF MERCHANDISE AND OR SERVICES BY
ITINERANT MERCHANTS ON THE STREETS AND %iTHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE SThTION, TEXAS: RE(UIRI G SUCH PERSON TO APPLY FOR AND OBTAIN A PERMIT
THEREFORE; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLAaI0:4 OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas:
SECTION I. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any itinerant merchant or
peddler to sell or offer for sale or to solicit orders for any merchandise or service
on the streets or within the corporate limits of the City of College Station, Texas
without first applying for and obtaining a permit to do so from the City Secretary
of the City of College Station, Texas.
SECTION II: That any person desiring to engage in the business of itinerant
merchant or peddling within the corporate limits of the City of College Station, Texas
shall make written application for a permit to do so to the City Secretary of the
City of College Station, Texas, which application shall show the name and address of
the applicant, the name and address of the person, firm or corporation which such applic
represents, the kind of goods, wares, merchandise or services offered for sale, the
selling price of goods, wares, merchandise or services offered for sale, and
whether such applicant upon any such order so obtained will demand, accept or re3eive
payment or deposit of money in advance of final delivery, and the period of time
such applicant wishes to operate in the City of College Station, Texas. Such
written application shall be accompanied by a filing fee of fifty (50) cents.
SECTION III. Where the application for such permit shows that the applicant
shall demand, accept or receive payment or deposit of money in advance of final
delivery of merchandise or service, then such application shall be accompanied by -�
a bond in the penal sum of five hundred 4500.00) dollars executed by such applicant
as principal and a surety company licensed to do business in Texas conditioned upon
making final delivery of such merchandise or service in accordance with the term
of such order and for orders obtained and which bond shall be for the use and benefit
of all persons, firms or coriorations who may pay in advance or may -make advance
deposit on the purchase price of said order.
SECTION IV. That the City Secretary of the City of College Station, Texas
shall issue a permit upon payment of the following fees:
I. Local Producers of Agricultural products
(a) One (1) month or less $ 5.00
(b) Each additional month 1.00
II. Non -local Producers of Agricultural products
(a) One (1) month or less 50.00
(b) Each additional month 10.00
IIIA Septic tank service
(a) One (1) month or less 50.00
(b) Each additional month 10.00
Iv. Photographers
(a) .One (1) month or less 50.00,
(b) Each additional month 10.00
V. A11 other classes of itinerant merchants and peddlers
(a) One (1) month;or less 50.00v
(b) Each additional month` 10.00
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SECTION V. The money obtained by the payment of fees to the City of College
Station, Texas shall be used to defray the expenses of operation and enforcement
of this ordinance.
SECTION VI. That any itinerant merchant or peddler operating in the City of
College Station, Texas shall comply with all health, sanitary or food ordinances of
the City of College Station, Texas.
SECTION VII. That any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than five (5) dollars and not
more than fifty (50) dollars, and eadh and every day any person shall peddle
without a license shall be deemed a separate offense,
SECTION VIII. That, if any section, subdivision, clause or phrase of this
ordinance, is for any reason held .to be unconstitutional or void, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of tis ordinance.
SECTION IX. That, the fact that the present ordinances of the City of
College Station, Texas', are inadequate, and the further fact that many peddlers
are now operating without a permit, creates an emergency and an imperative public
necessity that the rule requiring ordinances to be read at more than one meeting
of the City Council before final passage be suspended, and said rule is hereby
suspended, and that this ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect
immediately from and after its passage at this meeting, and it is so ordained.
PASSED :1ND APPROVED, this the 13th day of March. A.D. 1947.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Secretary
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