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I 6~fl oRDIr1ArICE rTo. 9058 An Ordinance defining, regulating and licensing solicitors within the City of Eugene; requiring a bond in lieu of investigation of qualifications, providing a penalty for the violation i~.ereof; repealing certain Ordinances or parts of Ordinances, and excepting certain persons from the effect hereof. THE CITY OF E UGEAIE DOES ORDAII~i AS POLLO~~VS : Section 1. Definition. A Solicitor within the meaning of this ordinance is defined to be any person who goes from house to house, or place to place, in the Ci-Ly of Eugene, selling or takint orders for or offoring to sell or take orders for, goods, wares, or merchandise, for present or future delivery, or for the making, manufacturing, or repairing of any article or thing whatsoever, for present or future delivery, except those selling to merchants for resale. Section 2. License. It shall be unlav~rful for any person to act as solicstor tivithin the meaning and application of this ordinance unless he or his employer shall have first secured a license therefor in the manner provided by this ord~xiance. Section 3. Tees. The license fees for solicitors heretmder shall be as follovrs: ~~5.00 per annum for each fiscal year or fraction thereof, payable in advance, for.ea.ch firm employing solicitors as defined in Section 1. The City Recorder may waive the payment of the license foe for any applicant trrho is an honorably discharged disabled I soldier, sailor or marine of the military or naval service of the United States, rho is a resident of this state and suffers not less than forty per cent disability, upon presentation of such applicant's certificate of honorable discharge from such service and such disability, and for any applicant who is a blind person and resident of the State of Oregon. Section L4.. Application. Any person or firm desiring to secure a solicitor's license shall apply therefor in tivf•iting over his or her signature to the City Recorder on forms provided by the City, and such application shall state as to each solicitor (1) the name and address of each solicitor, (2) the name and address of the parson, firm or corporation by whom employed (3) the lenbt;i of service of each such solicitor with such ~ employer, (1.4.) the place of residence and nature of the employment of-each solicitor during the ;ast presenting year, (5~1the nature or character of the goods, ~rrares, merchandise or services to be offered by each solicitor, {6) the personal description of each solicitor. Such application shall be accompanied by such credentials and other evidence of the good moral character and identity of each solicitor as may be reasonably required by the City Recorder. Section 5. Issuance of License, If the Chief of Police shall determine after i i j thirty days investigation that the facts set forth in the application are true, such solicitor is of good moral character, and that he proposes to engage in a lavrful and legitimate commercial or professional enterprise, he shall then approve the application, and the City ltranager may issue the license applied for. Such license shall expire on June 30th in the fiscal year in which such license shall have been issued. Except as .~