ARTICLE IV. - DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASSERS AND SALESPERSONS

Sec. 58-66. - Definitions.#

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Door-to-door canvassers or salespersons means those persons, whether they be principals or agents of any person, who do not have a regularly established place of business in the town, whose business is transient in nature necessitating door-to-door calls without prior appointment, and whose calls are infrequent in time and unscheduled. Persons making door-to-door calls as duly licensed peddlers or vendors are excluded from the terms of this article.

(Code 1967, § 20-12)

Cross reference— Definitions generally, § 1-2.

Sec. 58-67. - Authorization required.#

It shall be unlawful for any person to make door-to-door calls as either a canvasser or salesperson in the town without first receiving written authorization from the chief of the police department. The police department shall ascertain from each applicant, prior to issuance of such authorization, the applicant's name, address, company or other bona fide authorization and make such other inquiry of the applicant as the police department shall deem expedient.

(Code 1967, § 20-13)