Presenter
Presented by Mr. Lavelle
Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title VII, Business Licensing, Article III, Sales Businesses, Chapter 719, Vendors and Peddlers, to prohibit peddling and vending within certain public rights of way without the consent of the property owner and to adjust the area delineated in Map 3 to include the Consol Energy Center.
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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. Section 719.05(c) of the Pittsburgh Code is hereby amended as follows:
"No peddler, whether licensed or not, shall use any public place to sell wares or in any other way obstruct, interfere with or prevent the free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic in the Central Business District, except during the hours of a City of Pittsburgh permitted special event; and no peddler shall operate on any public right of way within the boundaries set forth in subsection (2) below or within any [of the] property owned by the Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for the operation and management of Heinz Field, PNC Park, the Mellon Arena and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and of any other property used by professional sports franchises in which the Sports and Exhibition Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, or Allegheny County and has a financial or proprietary interest. No peddler shall operate within the boundaries set forth in subsection (2) below of the property owned and operated by the University of Pittsburgh known as the John M. & Gertrude E. Peterson Event Center and property owned and operated by Duquesne University known as the A.J. Palumbo Center.
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Vendors and vending activity on any public right of way within the boundaries set forth in subsection (2) below or within any property [of] owned by the Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for the operation and management of Heinz Field, PNC Park, the Mellon Arena, and the David L. Lawrence C...
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