Number
071617
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BOHL
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to establishing standards for the issuance of warning letters to applicants for direct seller licenses and reordering and revising certain regulations for the purposes of clarifying language and eliminating obsolete provisions.
Sections
95-1 rc
Analysis
This ordinance establishes standards for the issuance by the city clerk of warning letters to new and renewal applicants for direct seller licenses, in lieu of forwarding applications to the licensing committee for hearings on whether the applications should be recommended for approval or denial to the common council. In addition, this ordinance reorders and revises certain direct seller regulations for the purposes of clarifying language and eliminating obsolete provisions.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 95-1 of the code is repealed and recreated to read:
95-1. Direct Sellers.
1. DEFINITIONS. In this section:
a. "Charitable organization" means any benevolent, philanthropic or patriotic organization, or one purporting to be such.
b. "Direct seller" means any person who sells goods or takes sales orders for the later delivery of goods on any public way or other public premises, and includes peddlers and solicitors. "Direct seller" does not include a transient merchant; a permanent merchant conducting a temporary sidewalk sale; or a food peddler, who is regulated under ch. 74.
c. "Goods" means personal property of any kind and includes goods provided incidental to services offered or sold.
d. "Other public premises" means any premises controlled by the city, county or state or any board or other instrumentality or agency thereof and dedicated for use by the public generally and includes public buildings and premises appurtenant thereto.
e. "Permanent merchant" means a direct seller who, for at least one year prior to the consideration ...
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