Chapter 98 BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING.
Section 98-45 COMMERCIAL SOLICITORS.
A.
A commercial solicitor shall be defined as any person, whether a
principal,
agent or salesman, who engages in, does, or transacts any temporary or
transient business in the town by going from house to house or from
private
residence to private residence for the purpose of taking orders or
offering to
take orders for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise or taking
orders
for services to be performed in the future. A commercial solicitor
shall not
carry goods, wares or merchandise from house to house, except
those which
are used for display purposes only and are not for sale. For
licensing
and taxing purposes a commercial solicitor shall be deemed an itinerant
merchant
as defined in Virginia Code Section 58.1-3717 (B.). This section
shall
not apply to wholesalers or to insurance underwriters. Upon
written application,
the Front Royal Town Council may waive the requirement of a
solicitor's license for representatives of charitable, religious,
civic,
political, educational, service and fraternal organizations engaged in
commercial solicitation exclusively for the benefit of their
respective
organizations. This section shall not apply to charitable or
civic
organizations registered under the provisions of Virginia Code
Section
57-49, et seq. Every commercial solicitor shall be licensed,
unless
otherwise exempt under this section.
(Ord.
No. 13-96 Added
State Code Reference 12-16-96-Effective Upon Passage)
B.
For every license to engage in business as a commercial
solicitor, there
shall be paid a license tax of fifty dollars ($50.) per week, up to a
maximum
of two hundred dollars ($200.) for any calendar year
C.
Before a commercial solicitor's license may be issued, that person
must
possess a solicitor's permit as provided in Town Code Section 135-3 et
seq.
(Ord.
No. 10-86 Added Entire Section/Repealed
“Itinerant Vendors” 7-28-86-Effective Upon Passage
(Ord.
No. 4-98 Amended (C)
2-9-98-Effective Upon Passage)