Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 5.42 Deliveries

Every person engaging in the business of delivering goods, wares, merchandise or services by vehicle owned and operated by a duly established and licensed place of business within the city shall be exempt from the payment of a delivery license, providing said deliveries are restricted to goods, wares, merchandise or service sold or contracted for by the so established business.

(Prior code § 6-600)

Every person engaging in the business of delivery of goods, wares, merchandise or similar items who does not engage in solicitation or vending, either wholesale or retail, and does not maintain an established place of business within the city shall pay an annual delivery license in the amount of fifty dollars per vehicle.

(Ord. 1589 § 2, 1995)

Every person engaging in the business of the delivery or sale of ice, milk, oil or gasoline products, water, bread and baked goods, fish and allied marine products and ice cream and who operates a catering or lunch truck shall pay an annual license fee in the amount of fifty dollars per vehicle.

(Ord. 1589 § 4, 1995)

Every person engaging in the business of selling or delivering fruits and vegetables by traveling grocery store, truck, bus or any other type of vehicle shall pay an annual license fee of two hundred dollars per vehicle.

(Prior code § 6-603)

Every person engaging in the business of delivering any type of edible or food product to an established dealer or place of business, for which a license fee is not elsewhere prescribed in this code, shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such business.

(Ord. 1589 § 6, 1995)

Every person engaging in the business of delivering goods other than edibles or food products by vehicle who does not have an established place of business in the city, but has maintained a regular route within the city and has been licensed therefor for a period of two years preceding the adoption of this code, and does not engage in door to door solicitation for new customers, shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars per route and/or vehicle so engaged. Every person who does not qualify under the conditions prescribed in this section shall pay a soliciting license fee.

(Ord. 1589 § 8, 1995)

Every person licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall secure from the director of licensing and code enforcement a numbered plate for each vehicle licensed, which plate shall be placed conspicuously on the rear of each such vehicle. The licensee shall pay the city clerk a charge based upon the purchase price of the plate plus costs; the cost shall be established by the director of licensing and code enforcement based on purchase price. No person shall attach any such plate on a vehicle not used by the licensee in such business nor shall any person drive or operate a vehicle upon which a plate is placed in violation of the provisions herein contained.

(Prior code § 6-606.; Ord. 1284 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)