Ordinance No. 369 - Itinerant Vendors and Peddlers,'etc.
ORDINANCE NO. 369
Ard ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD
PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF ITINERANT
VENDORS AND PEDDLERS, ADIEDiDING THE ROSEMEAD
MUNICIPAL CODE AND DECLARING THE URGENCY'
THEREOF
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Sec. 1. The Rosemead Municipal Code, and in particu-
lar Article VI Chapter 2 thereof, are hereby amended by adding
thereto Sections 6208, 6209, 6210, 6211 and 6212 to read as
follows:
"62.08._.- Repeal of Sections of Ordinance 5860
Notwithstanding-the provisions of Section 6200
• of this Code, sections 601, 602 and 603 of Ordinance
5860 of the County of Los Angeles are hereby repealed.
"6209'. Itinerant Vendors, Peddlers - License
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Every peddler; .hawker, itinerant vendor or other
person peddling, selling or offering for sale any
notions, flowers, toys, mechanical devices or other
goods, wares or merchandise of any kind (except as
`provided in section 6210 or 6211), from any pack,
stand, handcart, wagon or other vehicle, or any
location adjacent to a street corner, .alley, or .
other public place, or any doorway, vacant lot, or
other property not occupied or used as a fixed place
of business of which such selling or offering for
sale is an incidental part, shall procure a license
from the City of Rosemead and pay a license fee of
$25.00 per-year or any portion thereof for which
such license is obtained.
"6210. Itinerant Vendors, Peddlers - Food Items
Every Deddler, hawker., itinerant vendor or other
p2=SOP. peddling, Se11-nC, Ofieri?lg fOr S?1°_ O.' d21iV-
er_ng 11Gll1d5 Or ed'b125 fOr human. COi151:.T.p L'_C ,
either retail or wholesale, from any basket, pack,
handcart, wagon or other vehicle, or any location
adjacent to a street, doorway, vacant lot or other
property net occupied or used as a fixed place of
business of which such selling or offering for sale
is an incidental part, except dairy products and
except persons selling or delivering, or both, to
retail or wholesale stablishments for resale, agri-
cultural products raised by them, shall procure a
license from the City of Rosemead and pay a license
fee of $25.00 per year or an}~ portion thereof for
which such license is obtained.
"6211. Exceptions to Sections 6209 and 6210
Sections 6209 and 6210 shall not apply to:
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(a) Merchants having a fixed place of
business in the City of Rosemead which is listed
as such with the State Board of Equalization in
connection with its administration of the Uniform
Local Sales and-Use Tax Ordinance, and such sell-
ing or offering for sale is an-incidental part of
such business.
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(b) Employees of such merchants referred
to' in. subsection (a) .
"6212. Receipts, Records
Every peddler, hawker, itinerant vendor or
other person required to procure a license under .
the provisions of section 6209 shall:
(a) Offer or give a written receipt to
each person purchasing any goods, wares or merchan-
dise in the City of. Rosemead;
(b) Record daily all receipts of funds
from all sales in the City of.Rosemead in a bound
book or record and keep such book or record for
not less than three years. .Such book or record
shall be available for inspection in like manner
as the .books or .records of other vendors of per-
sonal property under the provisions of-the sales
and use tax law."
Sec .. 2. The Rosemead Municipal Code is hereby
amended by deleting from section 6207 entitled Schedule of
Fees, from the columns headed "Vehicles and Other"Itinerant--,'-
Businesses," "Original" and "Renewals,"- the following:
"Peddlers -.Various 7.00 qtr 7.00'i'gtr"
Sec. 3: A proliferation of itinerant vendors is
occurring on street corners, vacant lots and other locatiohs ..
adjacent to public.places.throughout the City and the number .~
of such vendors ~aili'greatly increase and multiply during
't f:e hol=day Se35OR. Nia :^.y O' SUC'P. per5On5 art ~1Rid°nt=fled
and llnknOWn, and ha'Te 'O eStaD11si1ed place Of bLiSlne33• 'At
present there is no way to contact such vendors with respect
to faulty, defective, shoddy or stolen merchandise, nor is
there any means available under existing ordinances to
obtain accountings for sales or use tax. This ordinance is
therefore necessary for the preservation of the public peace,
safety and welfare and shall take effect immediately upon
adoption.
PASSED, APPROVED AND .ADOPTED this~~day of
November, 1973. "
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ATTEST:
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• State of Cal~~rnia, )
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County of Los~!ngeles, ). '
• City of Rosemead. )
I, Jenny E. Davenport, City Clerk of-th e City of Roses~ead
do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and
correct copy of the original. ;_
Ordinance No. 369 ..
adopted at the meeting of the Rosemead City Council held
on November 27, 1973. by.the following. vote.:
AYES: COUNCILt~1EN:,Andersen,.:Hunter, .Pike.; Taylor
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Published. or Posted ::-City"Clerk: f the City; of Rosemead-
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