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Timestamp: 2019-02-20 22:02:02
Document Index: 458802242

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 301', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 257', '§ 135']

Town of Riverhead, NY Peddling and Soliciting
Ch 257 Art I Licensing and Regulation
§ 257-3 Registration and license required.
§ 257-4 Exemptions.
§ 257-5 Permitted activities.
§ 257-7 Fees.
§ 257-9 Issuance of license.
§ 257-10 Revocation or suspension of license.
§ 257-11 Penalties for offenses.
Ch 257 Art II Canvassing for Religious Purposes
§ 257-12 Nonapplicability of other provisions.
Chapter 257 Peddling and Soliciting
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Riverhead 10-20-1992 (Ch. 84 of the 1976 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Article II Canvassing for Religious Purposes
The purpose of this article is to provide for the registration and regulation of the conduct of certain peddlers, solicitors and canvassers in the Town of Riverhead and otherwise eliminating such practices.
A person who goes from place to place by traveling on foot or by any type of conveyance on the streets or from house to house carrying, transporting or conveying goods, wares, merchandise, foods, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and deliveries to purchasers or who solicits orders and, as a separate transaction, makes deliveries to purchasers. The word "peddler" shall include the words "hawker" and "huckster."
Includes the singular and the plural and shall also include and mean any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, voluntary association, incorporated association, club, society or other organization and any officer, employee or agent thereof.
SOLICITOR and/or CANVASSER
Any person who goes from place to place or house to house or stands in any street or public place taking or offering to take orders for goods, wares or merchandise, except as hereinafter exempted, or for services to be performed in the future or for making, manufacturing or repairing any article or thing whatsoever for future delivery.
A retail or wholesale business conducted in a temporary structure or tent; from a truck, van or trailer on a parking lot or vacant parcel of land; on a part of a public right-of-way; or in any other place for a temporary period of time. Lack of a rental or leasing agreement of three months' or more duration, sealed by monetary consideration, shall be presumptive of a temporary situation. The type of merchandise being offered for sale will have no bearing on the designation.
It shall be unlawful for any peddler or solicitor to sell or dispose of or to offer to sell or dispose of any goods, wares or merchandise within the Town of Riverhead or to solicit or act as a solicitor from door to door within the Town of Riverhead without first registering with the Town Clerk of the Town of Riverhead as provided in this article and obtaining the license prescribed.
The requirements of this article as to the payment of a license fee (but not as to registration) shall be held not to include the following persons, who are expressly exempt from its application:
Any person honorably discharged from the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps or other components of the military forces of the United States who has served in any war or overseas. Any honorably discharged member of the Armed Forces of the United States holding a license pursuant to Article 4 of the General Business Law must file a further application with the Town Clerk for the issuance of a local license under the same conditions as any other peddler. No fee shall be required of any such veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States, except that conveyances not owned by such a veteran shall be licensed at the usual fee.
Persons engaged in delivering merchandise of any nature whatsoever on regular, scheduled routes to regular customers, including specifically but not limited to persons delivering dairy products, bread and other merchandise over such routes, and, with respect to persons mentioned in this subsection, they shall be exempt from all requirements of this article relating to the payment of the license fee or license fees, terms and conditions.
Salesmen and/or product representatives in the business of supplying established businesses, including but not limited to department store merchandise, pharmaceutical supplies and other personal-use items, within the Town of Riverhead with stock and merchandise usually sold in said businesses.
Any person selling personal property or other merchandise at wholesale to dealers and/or retailers engaged in the business of selling such articles in a business in the Town of Riverhead.
The sale of meats, fish, fruits, farm produce and other agricultural commodities as described in § 301 of the Agriculture and Markets Law by farmers and persons who produce such commodities on the private property where said commodity is being sold.
Persons soliciting, collecting or operating a sale on behalf of any local bona fide charitable, religious, patriotic or any other not-for-profit community organization, which organization is represented locally by a Town resident.
Any merchant having an established place of business within the Town of Riverhead.
The following activities shall be the only activities which can be licensed pursuant to this article:
The sale of ice cream, milk and other dairy products.
The sale of goods ordinarily associated with the operation of coffee trucks, provided that said sale is conducted to established businesses within the Town.
The sale or taking orders for future delivery of goods, produce, wares, books, magazines and periodicals or merchandise of any description by calls from house to house which comply with the restrictions set forth in § 257-8 of this article.
All other businesses hereinabove defined as transient retail businesses shall be illegal in the Town of Riverhead.
Any person desiring a license under this article shall first register with the Town Clerk of the Town of Riverhead and shall file with said Town Clerk an application, in writing, containing the following information:
The name, address and telephone number of the person from whom goods making up the stock, if any, were or are to be purchased.
The particular business, trade or occupation for which the license is required and a description of the goods, wares or merchandise to be sold and offered for sale and/or the purpose of his proposed canvassing or solicitation.
The manner or means of conveyance in which the business, trade or occupation is to be conducted.
Two recent photographs of the applicant, approximately 2 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches in size, together with a complete set of fingerprints.
The length of time for which the license is required and the effective date of the registration.
Details of any arrests or convictions for misdemeanors and crimes, including the nature of the offense for which arrested or convicted, the date of conviction and the place where said conviction was had.
A statement by a reputable physician, dated not more than 10 days prior to the submission of the application, certifying the applicant to be free of contagious infections or contagious diseases.
The license fee payable by each peddler for each unit, truck or any conveyance carrying wares shall be as follows:
Per year: $100.
Per six months: $75.
Per three months: $50.
The license fee for each solicitor or canvasser going from house to house shall be as follows:
Per year: $75.
Per six months: $50.
Per three months: $25.
Accredited representatives of any charitable, educational, fraternal or religious organization or corporation not having its office in the Town of Riverhead shall not be required to pay a fee but shall otherwise file the information required by § 257-6 herein.
Any person honorably discharged from the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps or other components of the military forces of the United States as described in § 257-4 herein shall not be required to pay a fee but shall otherwise file the information required by this article.
Not engage in such business at any time between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.
Not offer for sale any unwholesome, tainted, deleterious or diseased provisions or merchandise.
Not call attention to his goods by blowing a horn, by ringing a bell other than a house doorbell, by shouting or crying out or by any loud or unusual noise or sound reproduction device, as those terms are described in Chapter 251, Article I, Noise, of the Code of the Town of Riverhead.
Not peddle or solicit in any congested place or area when or where such activity may impede, endanger or inconvenience the public or add to the congestion of such place or area. For the purposes of this subsection, the judgment of any peace officer, Code Enforcement Officer of the Town of Riverhead or police officer, exercised in good faith, shall be deemed conclusive as to the existence of congestions and as to whether the public is impeded, endangered or inconvenienced.
Not peddle or solicit at or within a one-thousand-foot radius of any municipal park, beach, marina or other Town-owned or -maintained recreational facility unless specifically authorized by the Town Board to peddle his wares by concession, lease or otherwise.
Not stand or permit the vehicles used by him to stand in one place in any public place or street or within 1,500 feet from the previous site for more than 10 minutes or in front of or on any premises at any time.
Not engage in such business within 500 feet of any school between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on school days.
Not engage in such business within 1,500 feet of any public market or store engaged in the business of selling the same goods, wares and merchandise offered by the licensee.
Not sell or peddle prepared foods of any kind, including ice cream, confectionery, beverages, prepackaged snack foods, hot dogs, hamburgers or other sandwiches, on any Town beach upon which is located a concession stand operated under an agreement with the Town or on any parking area adjacent thereto.
The license shall be issued on the forms drawn in accordance with this article. They shall be consecutively numbered and shall contain spaces for the insertion of the name, location of the business, tax identification number or social security number and amount of fee paid.
There shall be kept in the office of the Town Clerk the necessary books for recording the time the application was received, showing whether it is an application for a new or renewal license, the name of the license, the date of approval by the Town Clerk, the amount of fee received therefor and the date when the license was issued.
Every person holding a license under this article shall be required to have in his possession the license at all times while actually engaged in peddling.
A license may be suspended or revoked by the Town Clerk or the Chief of Police by reason of violation of the terms of the license, the violation of any Town ordinance pursuant to § 135 of the Town Law or state or federal statute or falsification or fraud in applying for the license. The licensed person may, upon making application to the Town Clerk, in writing, request a hearing by the Town Board upon the revocation or suspension of the aforesaid license.
Any person required by this article to procure a license who violates its terms or who violates any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay not less than $500 nor more than $2,500 for the first offense and no less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 for the second or any subsequent offense.
The provisions of Article I of this chapter shall not apply to persons who distribute religious literature or who solicit contributions for such purposes within the Town of Riverhead.