Chapter 5 · Business Regulations

Article 1. Licenses Generally

Sections 5-101 to 5-104 · 4 sections

5-101 Licenses.

No person, firm or corporation, either as principal, agent or employee, shall peddle, canvas or solicit within the city, any of the occupations specified in section 5-102 without having first obtained a license so to do, and having paid the occupation and/or license taxes hereinafter respectively prescribed therefor; provided that, such of the licenses as are required to vend or peddle in the city shall be issued free to those veterans discharged in good standing, who have resided in Decatur County, Kansas, for six months prior to the time of issuance of the license.

No permits, licenses, or requests under the city zoning of any kind shall be accepted by the city, nor shall any such permits, licenses, or zoning code requests be entertained or issued to any individual or their spouse or children or to any entity who has any delinquent real estate taxes or assessments of any kind.

(Prior Code § 8-101; Ord. 602; Ord. 946; Code 2024)

5-102 Taxes levied.

(a)Peddlers, street vendors, solicitors, book agents, magazine salesmen or saleswomen, itinerant merchants and dealers, and transient vendors of merchandise, and each and every employee thereof, who intend to, or do, peddle, canvass or solicit from place to place, from house to house, on the streets of the city, or from vehicles in the city, for the purpose of selling or taking orders for goods, wares, merchandise, books or magazines, and owners, operators and employees of each temporary street stand, temporary place of business, or vehicle, on or adjacent to any Street in the city at which goods, wares or merchandise are offered for sale shall pay the sum of $25 per day for the privilege of operating within the corporate boundaries of the city, except as provided in section (b).

(b)Itinerant merchants, who operate from a single location and who do not solicit sales door to door in the city, may apply for a license which shall allow operation from that fixed single location within the city for the sum of $100 per calendar year.

(c)No license shall be required for the sale or delivery of daily newspapers.

(Prior Code § 8-102; Ord. 602; Ord. 887; Code 2024)

5-103 Producers, growers.

Producers and growers, or their agents or employees engaged in the sale of farm, or garden products, or fruits, grown within the State of Kansas, shall not be considered to be conducting, carrying on, operating or pursuing any of the callings, trades, businesses, professions or occupations classified in section 5-102 of this article, and no license shall be required from such persons described in this section.

(Prior Code § 8-103; Ord. 602)

5-104 Licenses issued, expired.

All licenses issued under this article shall give the following information:

(a)Dates on which same are issued; and

(b)Dates on which same respectively shall expire.

(Prior Code § 8-104; Ord. 602)