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--- (13) --- Cross reference— Streets, sidewalks and other public places, ch. 66.
State Law reference— Itinerant vendors, G.L. 1956, § 5-15-1 et seq.; G.L. 1956, § 5-15-1 et seq. not applicable to Town of Narragansett, G.L. 1956, § 5-15-16.
Sec. 14-346. - Definitions.#
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Itinerant vendor means all persons who engage in a temporary or transient business in this state, either in one locality or in travelling from place to place selling goods, wares and merchandise, and who for the purposes of carrying on such business, hire, lease or occupy any building or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise.
(Code 1986, § 12-207)
Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.
Sec. 14-347. - Applicability of division provisions.#
The provisions of this division shall not apply to sales made to dealers by commercial travellers or selling agents in the usual course of business, to bona fide sales of goods, wares and merchandise by sample for future delivery, to innkeepers or hotel keepers, to hawkers on the streets, to peddlers from vehicles, to sheriffs, constables or public officers of the state selling goods, wares and merchandise according to law, to bona fide assignees for the benefit of creditors residing within this state or to receivers appointed in this state, selling goods, wares and merchandise in this state.
(Code 1986, § 12-206)
Sec. 14-348. - License.#
(a)
Required. All itinerant vendors in the town are hereby required, before offering their wares for sale, to procure a license from the town clerk as itinerant vendors.
(b)
Fee. Itinerant vendors before granted a license required by this division shall pay as a fee for the license to the town clerk the sum of $1.75 for each $100.00 or fractional part thereof not to exceed $100.00, of estimated worth of the stock of goods, etc., in the possession of the itinerant vendor for the purpose of sale. The minimum fee for the license shall be $30.00.
(c)
Display. Each applicant for a license as itinerant vendor shall exhibit their state license and comply with G.L. 1956, § 5-15-5.
(Code 1986, §§ 12-208—12-210)
State Law reference— Recording and endorsement of state license; fee, G.L. 1956, § 5-15-5; proof of state division of taxation permit to make sales at retail required, G.L. 1956, § 5-15-16.