Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

It shall be deemed a nuisance and punishable as a misdemeanor for any solicitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant merchant or transient vendor of merchandise not having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of any private residence to go in or upon such premises for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise and/or disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same. Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale or soliciting of orders for the sale of milk, dairy products, vegetables, poultry, eggs and other farm and garden produce so far as the sale of the commodities named herein is now authorized by law. (1976 Code, § 5-203)