NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1104

HOUSE BILL 858

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO LICENSE TAXES OF ITINERANT SALESMEN AND PEDDLERS IN WAYNE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Wayne County is hereby authorized and empowered to levy a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00)         on any person, or persons, engaged in door to door selling of any merchandise whatsoever, including magazine subscriptions, household merchandise or any other merchandise whatsoever not produced by the vendor whether or not the merchandise is delivered to the customer at the time of solicitation or sale.

Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation operating as an itinerant peddler or salesman shall obtain prior to the beginning of their operation a business license from the Tax Collector of Wayne County for each and every peddler or salesman, driver or other persons assisting in the sale or solicitation for the sale of merchandise in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00)     per annum, said amount not refundable and not prorated.

Sec. 3. Any person, firm or corporation above described shall prior to the acquisition of their business license register their name and their trade, fingerprints and photograph with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and furnish proof of such registration to the tax collector.

Sec. 4. Any person, firm or corporation convicted of violating this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each and every day shall constitute a separate offense.

Sec. 5. None of the provisions of this Act shall apply to bona fide residents of Wayne County, nor to any person, firm or corporation who for a period of six (6)    months has regularly engaged in such practice.

Sec. 6. Any provisions in G. S. 105-53 in conflict with this Act and all other laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1961.