§ 36-1. Findings; intent.

A. 

The Town Board of the Town of Brookhaven finds that there has been a major increase in the number of roadside peddlers selling their wares from vehicles on vacant and improved land adjacent to major roadways within the Town.

B. 

The Town Board finds that this proliferation of roadside peddlers includes an increasing number who peddle from a fixed location, which is detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the Town of Brookhaven and to the safe flow of vehicular traffic on highways in the Town of Brookhaven unless properly regulated.

C. 

It is necessary and proper, pursuant to the powers granted unto the Town of Brookhaven by virtue of Town Law § 136, to regulate the practice of peddling.

D. 

It is the intent of this chapter to regulate mobile peddling in the Town of Brookhaven.

E. 

The Town Board finds that the proliferation of stationary peddling in the Town of Brookhaven is detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the Town of Brookhaven in that it interferes with the safe flow of vehicular traffic, contributes to roadway litter and is generally not aesthetic in appearance.

Amended 7-7-1992 by L.L. No. 8-1992, effective 7-15-1992; 6-12-2012 by L.L. No. 15-2012, effective 6-22-2012