Providing for the Regulations & Licensing of Transient Merchants

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NO. X30 / :'' AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATING AND LICENS- ING OF TRANSIENT hIrRCHANTS, FOR THE REPEAL OF OTHER ORDINANCES PERTAINING THERETO AND PROVIDING PENALTIES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE C OI;?EON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, THAT 1. The term "transient merchant" when used in this ordinance shall include all persons, individuals, co- partners and corporations, both as principals and agents, who -engage in, do or transact any temporary or transient business in this city, by selling goods, wares and merchandise, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease or occupy any room, build- ing, vehicle, railway car, store, shop, vacant lot or parking lot, tent or structure for the exhibition and sale of goods, wares and merchandise, excepting those hereinafter exempted. and anyone conducting business as above set forth within the corporate limits of the city of South Bend, Indiana, for a period of less than one hundred twenty (120) days, shall be deemed transient merchants. Section 2. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to sales made to dealers by commercial travelers or selling agents in the usual course of business, nor to bona fide sales of goods, wares and merchandise by sample for future delivery, or to hawkers on the streets, or to peddlers from vehicles, baskets or packs carried on backs, or to sheriffs, constables or other public officers selling goods, wares and merchandise according to law, nor to bona fide assignees or receivers appointed in this State selling goods, wares and merchandise for the benefit of creditors, or pro- duce or provisions or fruit, when such produce, or provisions or fruit is of the seller's own raising,_nor to open air stands coming within the provisions of ordinance No. 2948. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant to engage in, do or transact a.ny business as such in said