Vendor Licensing

Vendor Licensing

• CANVASSER – One who takes orders for future deliveries, or for intangible services, or solicits subscriptions in public places or from door to door and not from an established place on private premises. The term “canvasser” as used herein shall not apply to one who solicits funds or orders by telephone.
• ESTABLISHED BUSINESS – A person, firm or corporation which carries on its business from a property or a
  structure either owned or leased for a period greater than six weeks by said person, firm or corporation.
• FOODSTUFFS – For goods and products suitable for human ingestion which has not been. grown or produced on lands owned or leased by the person offering such item for sale.
• GOODS — See “wares.”
• HAWKER — See “peddler.”
• PEDDLER – One who sells tangible commodities from house to house, or on the streets or in any public place, whose sales are not made from one established location which is privately owned or rented, and who makes delivery at the time of sale. Whether or not the purchase price is collected at the same time is immaterial for the purposes of this chapter.
• PRODUCE – For the purposes of this chapter only, “produce” is defined as food items grown or produced exclusively and entirely on land which is owned or leased by the person offering such items for sale.
• PUSHCART – Any wagon, cart, or mobile apparatus used to carry, transport, display or dispense goods, wares, or foodstuffs offered for sale, and which is propelled, towed, or moved exclusively by manpower.
• SOLICITOR — See “canvasser.”
• VEHICLE — A wagon, cart or mobile apparatus used to carry, transport, display or dispense goods, wares or foodstuffs which is propelled, towed or moved by an engine, a motor or an animal, or any other method of propulsion which is not exclusively manpower.
• WARES — Any tangible commodity offered for sale, excluding “produce” as defined in this section.

Registration and permit required. Except as hereinafter expressly provided, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to vend, sell, offer to sell, or hawk any goods, wares or merchandise from any stand, cart, or vehicle of any kind, located on any street, sidewalk, intersection or public square within the Town, or from  door to door, or house to house in the Town without first registering with
and obtaining a permit from the Town Clerk.

Applicability

Nothing in this chapter shall be held to apply to any sales conducted pursuant to statute or by order of any court, to any person selling to dealers, to farmers and truck gardeners who themselves use, vend, sell or dispose of produce as defined in this chapter, to charitable, religious or nonprofit organization, to any honorably discharged service person who has procured a license as provided by the General Business Law of the State of New York, to persons less than 18 years of age or to persons, firms or corporations selling to regular customers on established routes.

Procedure for Registration

Any person desiring to conduct the business of a peddler, hawker, solicitor or canvasser as defined herein, within the Town, shall first file a written application for a permit to conduct such business with the Town Clerk. Such application shall be on a form provided by the Town. If applicant is to offer any kind of foodstuff for sale, the appropriate certificate from the Oneida County Health Department indicating that applicant’s cart or vehicle used to carry said foodstuff is in compliance with all applicable regulations of said Health Department.

Documents

Vendor Permit Application