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File #: 2015-2185    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 10/30/2015 In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
On agenda: 11/2/2015 Final action: 12/15/2015
Enactment date: 12/15/2015 Enactment #: 61
Effective date: 12/18/2015    
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Seven: Business Licensing, Article III: Sales Businesses, Chapter 719 Vendors and Peddlers, by removing specific subsections and/or adding to specific subsections as follows:
Sponsors: Dan Gilman, Corey O'Connor
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 07 - BUSINESS LICENSING
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
12/18/20152 Mayor Signed by the Mayor  Action details Meeting details
12/15/20152 City Council Passed FinallyPass Action details Meeting details
12/15/20152 City Council AMENDEDFail Action details Meeting details
12/9/20152 Standing Committee Affirmatively Recommended as AmendedPass Action details Meeting details
12/9/20152 Standing Committee AMENDEDPass Action details Meeting details
12/9/20151   Affirmatively Recommended as Amended  Action details Meeting details
12/8/20151 Committee on Hearings Public Hearing Held  Action details Meeting details
11/10/20151 Standing Committee Held for Cablecast Public HearingPass Action details Meeting details Video Video
11/2/20151 City Council Read and referred  Action details Meeting details Video Video
Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Seven: Business Licensing, Article III: Sales Businesses, Chapter 719 Vendors and Peddlers, by removing specific subsections and/or adding to specific subsections as follows:
Body
The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Seven: Business Licensing, Article III: Sales Businesses, Chapter 719 Vendors and Peddlers, by removing specific subsections and/or adding to specific subsections as follows:

? 719.01 - LICENSE REQUIRED.
No person shall engage in the business of being a vendor or peddler without first obtaining a license from the License Officer.
(Ord. 31-2002, ? 1, eff. 11-4-02)

? 719.02 - DEFINITIONS AND EXCEPTIONS.
(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, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products, or provisions 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 as used herein includes any person, whether a resident of the City of Pittsburgh or not who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers for sale goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, farm products, or provisions from an approved vending unit at an approved vendor location.
(c)
VENDOR/SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES (S&E) as used herein includes any person, whether a resident of the City of Pittsburgh or not who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers for sale goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, farm products, or provisions from an approved vending unit at an approved vendo...

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