Modesto Municipal Code Art. 4 Peddlers

The practice of going to, in and upon private residences, homes and/or apartments in the City by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of said residences, apartments or premises, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and/or merchandise and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or peddling and/or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and punishable as an infraction.

(Ord. 468-N.S., § 2, as amended by Ord. 2604-C.S., § 3, effective 10-27-88)

(Ord. 468-N.S., § 2; repealed by Ord. 2235-C.S., § 1, effective 2-16-84)

This article shall not be construed to apply to the following classes of persons:

(a) Persons, or their agents, who have a fixed place of business within the City, as defined by Section 6-1.101 of this Code.

(b) The actual growers and producers of ranch, farm, orchard, vineyard or poultry produce or products, as defined by Section 6-1.106(d) of this Code.

(c) Housewives who, in the kitchens of their own homes and as an incident only to their other housekeeping duties, make or produce and sell food products, provided that the applicable provisions of Chapter 1 of Title 6 have been otherwise complied with by such persons.

(d) The sellers or distributors of milk or cream who comply with and are licensed under the provisions of Chapter 3 of Title 5.

(Ord. 468-N.S., as amended by Ord. 271-C.S., effective 12-11-58)

The Chief of Police and the police force of the City are hereby required and requested to suppress the practices forbidden by Sections 4-7.401 and 4-7.402 hereof and to abate any such nuisance as is described in Sections 4-7.401 and 4-7.402 of this Code. (Sec. 5, Ord. 468-N.S.)