5.08.020 License required – Exceptions.
A. Any person seeking to engage in business as a peddler, solicitor, or canvasser shall first obtain a peddler, solicitor, or canvasser license as provided for in this chapter. The license required by this chapter is separate from and in addition to the business license issued under RMC Chapter 5.04, which may also be required when applicable.
B. Exceptions. No person shall be required to take out a license or pay a fee:
1. For the peddling of local newspapers;
2. For the peddling of fruits, vegetables, berries, butter, eggs, fish, milk, poultry, meats, or any farm produce or edibles raised, caught, produced or manufactured by such person in any place in this State;
3. When that person, after having been specifically requested by another to do so, calls upon that other person for the purpose of displaying goods, literature or giving information about any article, thing, product or service;
4. When that person is acting in his or her capacity as a member of a charitable, religious or nonprofit organization or corporation which has received tax exempt status under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) or other similar civic, charitable or nonprofit organizations;
5. When a person is engaged in political or other First Amendment speech or solicitation; or
6. When that person’s peddling or solicitation consists exclusively of the solicitation of order(s) to be filled solely by interstate shipment on behalf of businesses that do not maintain a place of intrastate business in the State of Washington. (Ord. 3033 § 17, 2021; Ord. 2546 § 2 (part), 2010: Ord. 1418 § 2, 1988: Ord. 809 § 1, 1978: Ord. 43 § 1, 1926).