§ 18-124. Operation in public places prohibited.  


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  • (a)

    No peddler, canvasser or solicitor shall be allowed to take up any space in the public streets or rights-of-way in disposing of the wares, foodstuffs or other things offered for sale, but each and every such person so engaged shall move from house to house with reasonable dispatch while upon the public streets, or other public place and when engaged in such occupation shall be subject to the direction of the chief of police.

    (b)

    The chief of police is hereby required to clear out of any public parking place all vehicles or conveyors found in the streets, rights-of-way or other public places used by peddlers and arrest all persons refusing to forthwith remove the same when commanded by the chief of police or any police officer.

(Code 1981, § 12-81)