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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1333 - Registration of Solicitors & PeddlersORDINANCE NO. 13 S P AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH ADDING CHAPTER 5.09 TO TITLE 5 OF THE NEWPORT BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE, ENTITLED "REGISTRATION OF SOLICITORS AND PEDDLERS" The City Council of the City of Newport Beach, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 5.09 is added to the Newport Beach Municipal Code to read: "CHAPTER 5.09 REGISTRATION OF SOLICITORS AND PEDDLERS -1- Sections: 5.09.010 Registration Required. 5.09.020 Application Requirements. 5.09.030 Issuance of Registration Cards. 5.09.040 Interstate Commerce Exemption, ., 5.09.010 Registration Required. All persons operating as solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, salesmen, or vendors, who go from house to house or upon any street, sidewalk, alley, park or public place in the City of Newport Beach, for the purpose of soliciting the purchase of or distributing goods, wares, merchandise, services, magazines, periodicals or other publications, or subscrip- tions for the same, except regularly published newspapers, shall make application to the License Division of the City for identification cards. Such persons, when so operating, shall carry their identification cards on their persons and shall exhibit such cards, upon request, to any person solicited, or, upon demand, to any peace officer. No person shall engage in any of the above described activities without first having obtained said identification card. -1- -2- 5.09.020 Application Requirements. Upon receiving . an application for a solicitor's registration card, the License Supervisor shall refer the application to the Police Department for investigation. Applicants for registration cards pursuant to this Chapter may be required to: (a) Answer all reasonable questions concerning their personal background and moral character and proposed method of operation, and the product or mer- chandise to be sold or distributed; (b) Furnish two (2) passport -sized photo- graphs of themselves; (c) Allow the Police Department to take their fingerprints. 5.09.030 Issuance of Registration Cards, The License Supervisor shall issue identification cards to all applicants who have paid the license fee required under Section 5,08.110, unless the Chief of Police shall recommend denial of the application on one or more of the following grounds: (a) The applicant has made a material misrepresentation of fact in his application; (b) The applicant is not a person of good moral character, based upon his record of criminal activities or other reliable evidence; (c) The proposed solicitation activity would lend itself to trickery, fraud or deceit. Any person whose application for an indenti- fication card has been denied shall be notified in writing of the denial and the reasons therefor by the License Super- visor, by certified mail, directed to the address shown on the application. The applicant shall have the right of appeal to the City Council, which right may be exercised by -2- filing a written notice of appeal with the City Clerk within fifteen (15) days following the date upon which the notice of the denial was mailed to him. 5.09.040 Interstate Commerce Exemption. Any person who is engaged in, or acting as an agent for, any business entitled to an exemption from local taxation by reason of its being engaged in interstate commerce, shall be required to make application for an identification card in accordance with the requirements of this Chapter, but shall be exempt from the license fee as provided in Section 5.08.110, upon satisfactory evidence being presented to the License Super- visor of his right to an exemption." SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be published once in ATTEST- My Clerk ; CERTIFIED AS THE ORIGINAL AND CERTIFIED AS TO PUBLICATION DATES' L1 ..__._.__ ............... CpAP aA Tx*_- C4H4' -a3F _ � gPr�SCJ: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Marshall, McInnis. Shelton, Parsons, Rogers, Hirth, Gruber NOES, COUNCILMEN: none ABSENT COUNCILMEN: none -3- THS'mh 3/19/70 the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be effective 30 days after the date of its adoption. itThis ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 23rd day of March , 1970, and was adopted on the 13th day of April , 1970, by the following vote, to wit: ATTEST- My Clerk ; CERTIFIED AS THE ORIGINAL AND CERTIFIED AS TO PUBLICATION DATES' L1 ..__._.__ ............... CpAP aA Tx*_- C4H4' -a3F _ � gPr�SCJ: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Marshall, McInnis. Shelton, Parsons, Rogers, Hirth, Gruber NOES, COUNCILMEN: none ABSENT COUNCILMEN: none -3- THS'mh 3/19/70