15.2-913 - Ordinances regulating certain vendors. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-913. Ordinances regulating certain vendors.

A. Any locality may by ordinance provide for the regulation of persons nototherwise licensed by the Commonwealth under Title 38.2, offering any itemfor sale within the locality when such persons go from one place of humanhabitation to another offering an item, other than newspapers and fresh farmproducts, for sale. The purpose of such ordinance is to reasonably controlthe activities of door-to-door vendors for the safety and well-being of thepeople residing in the locality. However, the locality may in such ordinanceexempt such activities when they are conducted on behalf of a nonprofitcharitable, civic or religious organization and may provide for otherreasonable exemptions in such ordinance.

B. Any locality adopting an ordinance under this section may collect a fee inan amount not to exceed twenty dollars, from each person granted a permit tosell door to door.

(1975, c. 378, §§ 15.1-37.3:1, 15.1-37.3:2; 1983, c. 383; 1997, c. 587.)