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ORDINANCE NO. 71-5-467
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 17-102 PEDDLERS, DISTRIBUTORS,
SOLICITORS, AND PICKUP AND DELIVERY -SERVICE, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES
CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Section 17-102 "Peddlers, distributors,
solicitors, and pickup and delivery service", be, and the same is
hereby amended and reordained so that said section as amended shall
hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 17-102. Peddlers, distributors, solicitors and pickup
and delivery service.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, any person
peddling goods, wares, merchandise, products, articles, items, things,
or personal property of any kind; or distributing handbills, posters,
samples, or other advertising matter for commercial advertising
purposes; or canvassing or soliciting and selling or taking orders
for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, products, articles, items,
things, or personal property of any kind where such sales are made con-
ditionally, or orders are accepted conditionally, or delivery is to be
made later, or the title is retained by the seller in order to secure
the payment of the purchase money; or soliciting trade or business
for any type of work, service, processing or production not covered
by other provisions of this article; or picking up or delivering
goods, wares, merchandise, products, articles, items, things or
personal property of any kind, if such service is not covered by
other provisions of this article; shall pay an annual license tax
under Schedule F of Section 17-59; provided, however, that such a
person going on foot shall pay in advance a minimum license tax of
thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents ($31.25) and that such a
person using a motor vehicle shall pay in advance a minimum license
tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and such minimum license taxes
shall not be prorated for parts of a calendar year. A credit shall
be allowed for such minimum license taxes against the amounts of
license taxes due under Schedule F of Section 11-59. This section
shall not apply to employees of a business licensed under this article.
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(b) The term "peddling", as used in this section, shall mean and
include selling or offering for sale at retail any goods, wares,
merchandise, products, articles, items, things or personal property
of any kind, by a person who goes from place to place contacting
Prospective customers and makes deliveries at the same time of making
sales. A peddler shall not carry on his business within three hundred
(300) feet of the city market house. A peddler's license shall
authorize only one person to conduct a peddling business, and a person
to whom such a license is issued shall not sell by agents or clerks,
but each agent or clerk shall procure a separate license. Each peddler
while engaging in peddling shall carry his license and exhibit the same
whenever required to do so by a police officer or other employee of the
city. A peddler's license shall not be transferable."
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its adoption, and retroactive to January 1, 1971.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners May 25, 1971
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, May 25, 1971.