Municipal Code

CHAPTER 860 Peddlers and Solicitors

860.01 Uninvited peddling and soliciting prohibited.
860.02 Exceptions.
860.99 Penalty.

CROSS REFERENCES
Power to license - see M.C.L.A. 91.1
Hawkers and peddlers generally - see M.C.L.A. 445.371 et seq.
Transient merchants generally - see M.C.L.A. 445.371 et seq.
Secondhand dealers - see M.C.L.A. 445.401 et seq.
Sales of alcoholic beverages in Village - see CHTR. Ch. XVI, §13
Sales of drugs - see GEN. OFF. 624.01, 624.06
Sales of hypodermic syringes, needles, etc. - see GEN. OFF. 624.04

860.01 UNINVITED PEDDLING AND SOLICITING PROHIBITED.
The practice of going in and upon private residences in the Village of Franklin by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or invited to do so by the owner or owners or the occupant or occupants of said private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of, or the sale of, goods, wares and merchandise, and/or disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited.
(Ord. 19. Passed 8-12-63.)

860.02 EXCEPTIONS.
This chapter shall not apply to the sale of, soliciting of orders for the sale of, or solicitation with respect to:
(a) Daily newspapers, milk, dairy products, vegetables, poultry, eggs and other farm and garden produce; and
(b) Goods, wares and merchandise of, or donations to, a corporation, a trust, a community chest, a fund or a foundation, which has received from the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Treasury Department a written ruling specifically holding that such organization qualifies under Section 170 (c) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended to the date of enactment of this chapter, as a corporation, a trust, a community chest, a fund or a foundation organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and no substantial part of the activities of which is propagandizing or otherwise attempting to influence legislation.
(Ord. 19. Passed 8-12-63.)

860.99 PENALTY.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 202.99 for general Code penalty if no specific penalty is provided.)