Permits/Licenses
Individuals or business owners seeking a permit or license to do business in the City of Washington must obtain said permit or license according to Chapter 8 of the Code of the City of Washington, Kansas, 1985, as indicated below.
CHAPTER VIII. LICENSES AND BUSINESS REGULATIONS
Article 1. Licenses Generally
Article 2. Green River Ordinance
ARTICLE 1. LICENSES GENERALLY
8-101. LICENSES. No person, firm or corporation, either as principal, agent or employee, shall peddle, canvas or solicit within the city, without having first obtained a license so to do, and having paid the occupation and/or license taxes hereinafter respectively prescribed thereof; PROVIDED, that such of the licenses as are required to vend or peddle in the city shall be issued free to those veterans and members of the American Nurse Corps described in K.S.A. 73-207 and 73-220, who have resided in Washington County, Kansas, for six (6) months previous to time of issuance of license.
8-102. TAXES LEVIED. Peddlers, street vendors, solicitors, book agents, magazine salesmen or saleswomen, itinerant merchants and dealers, and transient vendors of merchandise, and each and every employee thereof, who intend to, or do, peddle, canvas or solicit from place to place, from house to house, on the streets of the city, or from vehicles in the city, for the purpose of selling or taking orders for goods, wares, merchandise, books or magazines, and owners, operators and employees of each temporary street stand, temporary place of business, or vehicle, on or adjacent to any street in the city at which goods, wares or merchandise are offered for sale shall pay the following fees:
- Per day . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4.00;
- Per week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.00;
- Per month .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 35.00;
PROVIDED, that no license issued under this article shall authorize the holder thereof to perform any acts other than in compliance with Article 2 – Green River Ordinance of this chapter; PROVIDED FURTHER, that no license shall be required for the sale or delivery of daily newspapers.
8-103. VALIDITY. The holding or adjudication of any section or part of this article to be invalid shall not affect the validity of any other section or part hereof, but in such event all other sections and parts hereof shall be and remain in full force and effect.
8-104. PRODUCERS, GROWERS. Producers and growers, or their agents or employees engaged in the sale of farm or garden products, or fruits, grown within the State of Kansas, shall not be considered to be conducting, carrying on, operating or pursuing any of the callings, trades, businesses, professions or occupations classified in Section 8-102 of this article, and no licenses shall be required from such persons described in this section.
8-105. LICENSES ISSUED, EXPIRED. All licenses issued under this article shall give the following information:
- Dates on which same are issued;
- Dates on which same respectively shall expire.
8-106. PENALTY. Every person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty (30) days, or may be both so fined and imprisoned. In case of failure to pay in full any fine assessed hereunder, together with the costs of such proceeding, such person shall be imprisoned until such fine and costs are paid in full.
ARTICLE 2. GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE
8-201. GOING UPON PRIVATE PREMISES. The practice of going in and upon private residences in the city by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of the private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same, it is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and punishable as a misdemeanor.
8-202. PENALTY. Any persons violating the provisions of this article shall upon conviction thereof be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty (30) days or both so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.
