Legal Documents of Newport
Code of Newport
Title 9 Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 3 Solicitors And Canvassers
9-301 : When permit required.
It shall be unlawful for any person, whether a resident of the city or not, who goes from house to house, from place to place or from street to street, soliciting or taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, including magazines, books, periodicals or personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be performed in the future, whether or not the individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of the order or whether or not he is collecting advance payments on such orders, to induce or invite such orders, without having first obtained from the recorder a permit therefor. This section shall also apply to any person who, for himself or for another person, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, motor vehicle, trailer, structure, tent, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or other place within the city for the primary purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery. (1973 Code, § 7-17)