[Vision2020] The Vendor Ordinances

[Thomas Hansen]

Yes.  I heard that same commentary by Paul Harvey.

This may open a whole new bucket of worms (an art that the city council has
recently mastered).  How about those seven and eight year olds selling
lemonade on public streets?

Book 'em, Dano.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

-----Original Message-----
From: Tina Cunningham [mailto:kittz_cat@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:28 PM
To: John Danahy
Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The Vendor Ordinances


 When a Vendor proposes to sell any prepared food
> product for human
> consumption, a certification by the North Central
> Health District shall
> be required prior to issuance of a Vendor license.
> Prior to the issuance
> of any license when deemed necessary, the City shall
> inspect and approve
> each Vending Unit to assure compliance with the
> Code.
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This rings familiar......Last summer I heard a Paul
Harvy show that stated that a little girl was shut
down by the Health Department for selling lemonaide by
the side of the road without a permit.......is that
what we want??????  Young capitalists beware!!!!!!

Tina Cunningham
Moscow



--- John Danahy <jdanahy@turbonet.com> wrote:
> Below I have cut some language from the draft
> ordinances and followed
> language with some specific questions.
> 
>  
> 
> WHEREAS, a review of the current ordinance
> controlling vendors,
> peddlers, pushcart operation, food wagon operators,
> solicitors and
> canvassers suggests that changes are appropriate;
> and
> 
>  
> 
> Where have the suggestions alluded to come from? 
> Why is current
> language not appropriate?  What specific problems
> have arisen that
> current language cannot resolve?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> WHEREAS, it has been determined by the Council that
> licensing and
> registration of Vendors will adequately address the
> concerns related to
> such persons by providing for a manner by which to
> identify and regulate
> them.
> 
>  
> 
> What concerns related to such persons have been
> expressed?  How will
> such licensing address such concerns?
> 
>  
> 
> To provide a means for merchants to conduct Vending
> Operations on the
> public right-of-way in designated areas of the City
> while retaining the
> rights of the public in the use of the rights-of-way
> and providing a
> means for regulation of Vending for the protection
> of the public.
> 
>  
> 
> Does not current law provide for the rights of the
> public in the use of
> rights-of-way?  Cannot current language be used to
> facilitate the
> protection of the public?  Cannot MPD currently
> require a vendor
> blocking public rights-of-way to move?
> 
>  
> 
> A.	Vending Operation:  The act of selling goods,
> wares, merchandise
> and/or services on a public right-of-way or the act
> of placing or taking
> orders for goods, wares, merchandise and/or services
> on a public
> right-of-way.
> 
>  
> 
> If a person undertakes to sell goods or services in
> a parking lot of a
> store, is that person a Vendor?  If not, why not? 
> What is the
> difference between impeding the flow of pedestrian
> or vehicle traffic in
> a private parking lot and a public rights-of-way? 
> Does this include the
> service organization that sells food at Parks and
> Rec Games in the
> summer?  How is a charity car wash affected by this?
> 
>  
> 
> When a Vendor proposes to sell any prepared food
> product for human
> consumption, a certification by the North Central
> Health District shall
> be required prior to issuance of a Vendor license.
> Prior to the issuance
> of any license when deemed necessary, the City shall
> inspect and approve
> each Vending Unit to assure compliance with the
> Code.
> 
>  
> 
> Is this a new requirement?  Does the city or, more
> properly, the NCHD
> currently inspect and approve?  Is a license needed
> to require this?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Sec. 1-16.  Selling From Vehicles on Streets,
> Highways and Public
> Rights-Of-Way.  
> 
> No person shall sell or offer for sale or place or
> take orders for any
> goods, wares, merchandise and/or services from a
> vending unit, pushcart,
> vehicle, or other conveyance which is in a City
> street, highway, or
> public right-of-way, unless otherwise permitted by
> this Code
> 
>  
> 
> How often does this happen?  Is this truly a
> "problem?"  Is there no
> other current language that can be used to solve the
> few problems that
> might crop up?
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> I just do not see any real or imaginary need for all
> this.
> 
>  
> 
> John 
> 
> jdanahy@turbonet.com
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 


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