An Application for vending or soliciting may be obtained from the City Clerk-Treasurer and upon completion, be submitted to the Clerk-Treasurer with the appropriate processing fee. The application for an itinerant merchant’s license shall include the following information:
(A) Personal information shall be provided by the applicant including date of birth, driver’s license number, state identification or military identification, a copy of the individual’s birth certificate, permanent and local address and telephone number and a physical description including height, weight, color of hair and eyes;
(B) The name(s) of the corporation(s), firm(s) or person(s) which the applicant proposes to represent and the name(s) of the person(s) managing or supervising the solicitors; the local and permanent addresses of the aforementioned person(s); and the telephone numbers at which the person(s) can be reached. Also include shall be where and when the parent organization was established or incorporated;
(C) The applicant must supply credentials from the parent organization for which the applicant proposes to do business, authorizing the applicant to act as a representative;
(D) Copies of any state or county licenses which are also required to operate or conduct activities proposed by the applicant must be attached to the application;
(E) A description of the merchandise or services offered for sale;
(F) Information as to whether the parent organization or the solicitor/itinerant merchant has ever been enjoined from soliciting;
(G) Information as to whether the solicitor or parent organization named in the application has been convicted of a crime, the misdemeanor or violation of any municipal ordinance involving moral turpitude, (an example of these crimes being theft, burglary, robbery, fraud, deceit or any crime of violence) and if so, a brief explanation;
(H) The names and identification information of all individuals who will be working for the applicant within the area. The identification information for these individuals shall include names, local and permanent addresses and phone numbers and a physical description including height, weight, hair and eye colors. Each of the individuals listed in this section are required to obtain a license application and submit it along with the application processing fee subject to investigation and approval or denial;
(I) A photograph of the applicant who will sell or solicit is required and must have been taken within 60 days immediately prior to the date of the filing of the application, which picture shall be two inches by two inches, showing the head and shoulders of the applicant in a clear and distinguishing manner; and
(J) The applicant shall sign a disclaimer of city liability relating to any action cause or charged against the applicant. All individuals soliciting or selling door-to-door or business-to-business must fill out applications for their individual license. The same application information as above must be completed and returned to the Clerk-Treasurer whereupon an investigation of the individual will occur. A decision will be rendered in relation to the information provided on the individual’s application. However, no permit shall be issued until a processing period of five working days has elapsed.
(‘89 Code, § 45.06)
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