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File #: 2025-2150    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 8/22/2025 In control: Committee on Land Use and Economic Development
On agenda: 11/12/2025 Final action: 11/18/2025
Enactment date: 11/18/2025 Enactment #: 35
Effective date: 11/19/2025    
Title: Ordinance amending and supplementing the City Code at Title Seven, Business Licensing, Article III, Sales Businesses, Chapter 719, Vendors and Peddlers, by repealing Chapter 719 in its entirety and replacing it with a new Chapter 719 to update Pittsburgh's vending program.
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 07 - BUSINESS LICENSING
Attachments: 1. 2025-2150 Cover Letter-PLI 719 Amendment_Cover Letter to Council UPDATED, 2. 2025-2150 -PLI 719 Amendment_Narrative, 3. Summary 2025-2150
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Ordinance amending and supplementing the City Code at Title Seven, Business Licensing, Article III, Sales Businesses, Chapter 719, Vendors and Peddlers, by repealing Chapter 719 in its entirety and replacing it with a new Chapter 719 to update Pittsburgh's vending program.

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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Seven, Business Licensing, Article Three, Sales Businesses, Chapter 719, Vendors and Peddlers, is hereby repealed in its entirety, as follows:

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[? 719.01. License Required. [Ord. 31-2002, ? 1, eff. 11-4-2002]
No person shall engage in the business of being a vendor or peddler without first obtaining a license from the License Officer.
? 719.02. Definitions and Exceptions. [Ord. 31-2002, ? 1, eff. 11-4-2002; Ord. No. 61-2015,
? 1, eff. 12-18-2015; Ord. No. 27-2018, ? 1, eff. 8-6-2018; Ord. No. 19-2019, eff. 6-24-2019;
Ord. No. 5-2021, ? 1, eff. 2-24-2021]
(a) PEDDLER - as used herein includes any person, whether a resident of the City of Pittsburgh or not, traveling by foot from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, carrying on their person goods, wares, or merchandise and offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers. It is further provided that one who solicits orders for delivery at a later date is deemed a peddler and subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(b) VENDOR - When the term "vendor" is used by itself in this Chapter with no other descriptor, it shall be interpreted to include all types of vendors that are regulated in this Chapter.
(c) VENDOR EMPLOYEE - An employee without partial ownership of the business working at a licensed establishment. Workers compensation insurance is required to cover any vendor employee during the license period.
(d) VENDOR AT SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES (S&E) - as used herein
includes any person, whether a resid...

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