§ 26-986. Same—Hawkers and hucksters.

Every person engaged in the business of carrying from place to place any goods, wares or merchandise and peddling, hawking, selling offering to sell or to barter the goods, wares or merchandise, with or without the use of vehicles, shall be deemed to be a peddler, hawker or huckster. Every person licensed under this section may peddle, hawk, sell or offer to sell or barter, with or without the use of vehicles, any personal property a merchant may sell, as provided elsewhere in this article, or such person may exchange the personal property for other articles. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to require the payment of a license tax by a person peddling from a vehicle or on foot, but excluding persons assigned specific locations pursuant to Section 6-482, farm or domestic products, including flowers, ice, milk, butter, cream, bakers' products and eggs produced, grown or manufactured by such person and not purchased for sale, such peddling shall be done outside of and not within the limits of the regular market house spaces and sheds of the City.

Every peddler, hawker and huckster engaged in the business of carrying from place to place any goods, wares or merchandise, except crabs, gasoline or oil, ice wood, meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game vegetables, fruits or other family supplies of a perishable nature, and selling, offering to sell or to barter the goods, wares or merchandise and every vendor operating from one or more assigned specific locations as provided in Section 6-482 shall pay a license tax of $300.00 when such person travels on foot or does business at one or more specific locations. When vehicles are used, every such person shall pay a license tax equal to $300.00 for the first vehicle and $50.00 for each additional vehicle used. A vendor, as defined in Section 6-453, shall pay an additional fee as set forth in Appendix A to this Code for each and every additional specific location assigned to such vendor. The whole license tax assessed in this subsection shall be paid in one sum at the time the license is issued, and the tax shall not be prorated or transferred.

Every peddler, hawker, and huckster, whether a vehicle is used or not, engaged in the business of carrying from place to place meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruits or other family supplies of a perishable nature, not grown or produced by the peddler, and selling, offering to sell or to barter the product and every vendor, as defined in Section 6-453, doing business at one or more specific locations shall pay a license tax equal to $300.00. If more than one vehicle is used or if more than one specific location is assigned, such peddler shall pay a license tax equal to $300.00 and $50.00 additional for each vehicle or specific location in excess of one so used. The whole license tax assed by this subsection shall be paid in one sum at the time the license is issued, and the tax shall not be prorated or transferred.

The Collector shall deliver to every person, other than a vendor, as defined in Section 6-453, paying the license tax prescribed by Subsection (c) of this section who conducts business thereunder without the use of vehicles three buttons, and not more than three persons shall peddle, hawk, sell or offer to sell any of the goods, wares, merchandise or manufactured products upon the City streets under any one license issued thereunder; provided, however, vendors, as defined in Section 6-453, shall be subject to all terms and conditions set out in Chapter 6, Article X.

Every peddler, hawker and huckster engaged in the business of carrying from place to place family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by such person and groceries generally, including such articles as are customarily sold in grocery stores, other than alcoholic beverages, and selling, offering to sell or barter the supplies or groceries shall pay a license tax as set forth in Appendix A to this Code for each vehicle so used.

This section shall not be construed to permit the operation of vehicles upon the City streets without the payment of the license tax on such vehicles as provided elsewhere in this article.

(Code 1993, § 27-426; Code 2004, § 98-759; Ord. No. 2016-056, § 1, 5-13-2016)

State Law reference— Limitations on license tax on peddlers, Code of Virginia, § 58.1-3717.

(Code 1993, § 27-426; Code 2004, § 98-759; Ord. No. 2016-056, § 1, 5-13-2016)

State law reference

Limitations on license tax on peddlers, Code of Virginia, § 58.1-3717.