45:24-9 - Special licenses to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, nurses or army field clerks and exempt firemen; ordinances to regulate hawking, peddling and vending
45:24-9. Special licenses to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, nurses or army field clerks and exempt firemen; ordinances to regulate hawking, peddling and vending
The following persons shall have the right to hawk, peddle and vend any goods, wares or merchandise or solicit trade within this State, by procuring a license for that purpose to be issued in the manner and under the conditions hereinafter in this article prescribed, except, however, the aforesaid right to hawk, peddle and vend any goods, wares or merchandise or solicit trade shall not extend to or include any public beach or public boardwalk:
a. Every person who has been honorably discharged from the active military service of the United States, who is a resident of this State.
b. Every exempt member of a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire engine, hook and ladder, hose, supply company or salvage corps, of any municipality or fire district in this State, who holds an exemption certificate issued to him as an exempt member of any such department, company or corps, and who is a resident of this State.
Hawking, peddling and vending hereafter may be regulated by municipal ordinance on public streets and highways.
Amended by L.1943, c. 99, p. 322, s. 1; L.1950, c. 156, p. 341, s. 1; L.1952, c. 344, p. 1123, s. 1; L.1955, c. 245, p. 922, s. 1; L.1968, c. 27, s. 1, eff. May 2, 1968; L.1981, c. 270, s. 1, eff. Aug. 24, 1981; L.1984, c. 194, s. 1, eff. Nov. 27, 1984.