Article I
Adopted August 30, 2015
Section 46.1
Adopted August 30, 2015
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: Peddler, hawker, canvasser and house-to-house salesman mean any person who engages in the selling or taking of orders from house to house for any commodity of any kind or character from any vehicle or carried upon such person engaged in such business in the village, except where such person has a place of business situated within the village limits. (Comp. Ords. 1987, § 20.308) Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.
Section 46.2
Adopted August 30, 2015
Any person violating or assisting in the violation of this chapter shall be punishable in accordance with
Section 1.11
Adopted August 30, 2015
Section 46.3
Adopted August 30, 2015
The chief of police and/or any officers of the police department of the village are hereby required and directed to suppress and to abate any such nuisance as is prescribed in section 46-4. (Comp. Ords. 1987, § 20.310)
Section 46.4
Adopted August 30, 2015
The practice of going in and upon private residences, ringing doorbells, and knocking upon doors in the village by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant vendors and merchants and transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or occupant of such private residence, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or peddling or hawking goods, wares and merchandise, or giving away samples, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and punishable as a misdemeanor. (Comp. Ords. 1987, § 20.301)
Section 46.5
Adopted August 30, 2015
The hours for door-to-door salesmen shall be from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. (Comp. Ords. 1987, § 20.307) Secs. 46-6—46-30. - Reserved. [2]
--- (2) --- State Law reference— Authority to license and regulate hawkers and peddlers, MCL 67.1(h), MSA 5.1285, (h).