§ 17-19. Duty of police to enforce article.

It shall be the duty of any police officer of the city to require any person seen peddling, hawking, soliciting or canvassing, and who is not known by such officer to be duly licensed under division 2 of the article, to produce his peddler's, hawker's, solicitor's or canvasser's license and to enforce the provisions of this article against any person found to be violating the same. When it is determined that a violation has occurred it shall constitute an infraction of a local ordinance and shall be prosecuted as such. Any person who shall engage in the business aforesaid without being duly licensed as provided herein, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined in accordance with Code section 1-11.

(Ord. of 11-8-78; Ord. of 7-1-80; Ord. of 12-14-10)