Pennsylvania Act 1917-117 — FOOD, SALE IN FIRST CLASS CITIES

Act text

FOOD, SALE IN FIRST CLASS CITIES
                  Act of May 17, 1917, P.L. 204, No. 117              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To regulate and restrain the hawking, vending, and peddling of
        fish, fruit, and vegetables, and other merchandise, in the
        cities of the first class in this Commonwealth.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be unlawful for
     any person to hawk, vend, or peddle, upon the highways, streets,
     lanes, alleys, avenues, roads, or pavements of any city of the
     first class, any fish, fruit, or vegetable, or other
     merchandise, except a license therefor shall have been
     previously obtained as hereinafter provided.
        Section 2.  (2 repealed Apr. 7, 1921, P.L.114, No.66)
        Section 3.  For each and every wagon, cart, dray,
     wheelbarrow, or any vehicle used for the purpose of hawking,
     vending, and peddling fish, fruit, and vegetables, or other
     merchandise, a separate license shall be first had and obtained
     by the owner thereof; and in all cases where more than one
     license is taken out by any person, copartnership, or
     corporation, that fact shall be noted upon said additional
     license-stub, in its numerical order; and every vehicle shall be
     conspicuously marked with the name and address of the licensee,
     and shall have prominently displayed thereon a license-plate
     numbered the same as the license which was granted for the same.
        Section 4.  The councils of the cities of the first class,
     after the passage of this act, shall be empowered and shall be
     required to fix by ordinance the amount to be paid for a license
     under this act, and the time the same shall be paid, and also
     describe and regulate the manner of payment thereof into the
     treasury of the said city.
        Section 5.  Any person or persons using any vehicle that is
     not the property of the licensee, under this act, for hawking,
     vending, or peddling of any merchandise whatsoever, in the
     cities of the first class, and which is not properly marked, and
     which does not have prominently displayed thereon the proper
     license-plate, shall be liable, on conviction, to be imprisoned
     for not more than five days, or fined not more than one hundred
     dollars, or both or either, in the discretion of the court:
     Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall prevent any
     citizen of this Commonwealth from hawking, vending, and peddling
     the products of his, or her, or their farm or garden: Provided,
     however, That he, she, or they shall be required to make
     personal appearance, and execute an affidavit to that effect,
     before the properly accredited officials, and display
     prominently on the vehicle used a license-plate, for which,
     however, no charge shall be made.