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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 10:24:13+00:00

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§ 387-1 Definitions and interpretation.
§ 387-2 License required; conditions of issuance; fee.
§ 387-3 Application for license.
§ 387-4 Issuance of license; custody, display or exhibit.
§ 387-6 Hours of operation.
§ 387-7 Suspension and revocation of license; appeal.
§ 387-8 Violations and penalties.
§ 387-9 Nonliability of Borough.
§ 387-10 Canvassing and soliciting on private property restricted.
Sound amplification systems in vehicles — See Ch. 353, Art. I.
The Borough of Bridgeport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas.
Any person with no fixed place of business, who goes from house to house, from place to place, or from street to street, by any means, carrying or transporting goods, wares, or merchandise and offering or exposing the same for sale, or making sales and deliveries for purchase.
Any natural person, partnership, association, corporation, or other legal entity.
Any person who goes from house to house, from place to place, or from street to street, soliciting or taking or attempting to take orders for any goods, wares, or merchandise, including but not limited to books, periodicals, magazines, or personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or services, including but not limited to lawn care, alarm system service, or cleaning services. A solicitor is not a peddler.
Any business conducted in the Borough for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise whatsoever for a period of less than 90 calendar days. Transient retail business includes peddlers and solicitors, and any person engaged in transient retail business from a fixed location on private property.
No person shall engage in any transient retail business within the Borough without first having obtained from the Borough a license, for which a fee, which shall be for the use of the Borough, shall be charged and paid to the Borough in an amount to be established from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council. At the expiration of any license, if the person holding the license shall desire to continue the transient retail business, he or she shall be required to file a new application for a license and pay the license fee.
To religious proselytizing, political speech, and the distribution of handbills.
To any manufacturer or producer in the sale of bread and bakery products, meat and meat products, or milk and milk products.
To a person who has registered with the Department of State for the Commonwealth under the provisions of the Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act, 10 P.S. § 162.1, et seq., as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, or who is expressly exempted from such registration under such Act.
For taking orders for merchandise, by sample, from dealers or merchants for individuals or companies who pay a license and business privilege tax to the Borough at their chief place of business.
Any person claiming any exemption outlined above shall provide the Borough with documentation demonstrating that person qualifies for said exemption.
No person, licensed under this chapter, shall park any vehicle upon any of the streets or alleys of the Borough in order to sort, rearrange or clean any of his goods, wares or merchandise; nor may any such person place or deposit any refuse upon any of such streets or alleys; nor may such person maintain or keep a street or curbstone market by parking any vehicle upon any street or alley in the Borough for longer than necessary in order to sell or distribute therefrom to persons residing in the immediate vicinity.
No person licensed under this chapter shall occupy any fixed location upon any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds, with or without any stand or counter.
Submit his Pennsylvania criminal history check, which must be completed no more than five days prior to submission of his/her application.
The location on private property where sales will be conducted, if a fixed location is to be used. Compliance with all applicable zoning and building code regulations is required.
Applicant shall produce a state driver's license or other state- or government-issued picture identification card.
Upon receipt of such application and the prescribed fee, the Borough shall issue the license required herein if such license application is in order. Such license shall contain the information required to be given on the application. Every license holder shall display such license upon his person if engaged in transient retail business from house to house or upon any of streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds. The license holder shall only be entitled to carry said license for the length of time for which the license is issued. When the time period for the license has expired, the license holder shall apply for a new license and pay a new license fee.
Hawk or cry his wares upon any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or other public grounds in the Borough.
Park any vehicle upon any of the streets or alleys in the Borough for the purpose of cleaning any of his goods, wares, or merchandise or of disposing of any carton, wrapping material or of any stock or wares or food stuffs which have become unsaleable through handling, age or otherwise.
Enter or attempt to enter any dwelling without the invitation or permission of the occupant and shall immediately leave any premises upon request of the occupant.
Permit any person to have possession of his or her license and shall immediately report its loss to the Borough.
Transient retail businesses may not engage in any business activity, except by prior appointment, at any time on a Sunday or legal holiday; from October 1 through April 30, at any time before 9:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m. on any day; and from May 1 through September 30, at any time before 9:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. on any day.
The Chief of Police, Mayor or Borough Manager are hereby authorized to suspend or revoke any license issued when he or she deems such suspension or revocation to be beneficial to the public health, safety, or morals, for violation of any provision, or for giving false information upon any application for a license hereunder. No part of a license fee shall be refunded to any person whose license shall have been suspended or revoked. Any person whose license is suspended or revoked shall immediately surrender his or her license to the Borough.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision herein, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation continues or each section which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
All peddlers and solicitors, including nonprofit corporations and agencies, shall hold harmless the Borough from any liability, damage or injury which is causally related to an act of ordinary negligence on the part of such peddler or solicitor.
Nothing contained herein is intended to permit or authorize the canvassing or soliciting or sales or services upon private property, that is, residences, apartments, or business establishments, in the Borough without first obtaining the permission or actual or tacit invitation of the owners or occupiers of the property to enter upon the property for the purpose of canvassing or soliciting the sale of goods or merchandise or services. Such activities without such permission or invitation are declared to be a violation of this chapter.
The owner or lawful occupant of any premises within the Borough not desiring to have persons enter onto his or her premises may register with the Borough of Bridgeport Police Department to have his or her address placed on a registry to be distributed to those door-to-door solicitors required to obtain a license under § 387-2. The Borough Police Department shall provide that individual with a "NO SOLICITATION" sticker, which that party may display in the upper left-hand side of his or her front door. Such registry list shall be made available to the residents of the Borough and shall be held by the Police Department, and a copy shall be given to each person obtaining a license under the provisions of this chapter. Door-to-door solicitors who enter onto premises appearing on the registry shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 387-8 as well as immediate revocation of solicitation license.

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