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No significant fiscal impact is anticipated.
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Amending Sections 9.13(1), 9.13(6)(e)1.b. and c. of the Madison General Ordinances to provide a 14-day grace period for food vendors to license an assistant.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This amendment provides a 14-day grace period for licensed food vendors who hire employees to have their employees licensed. This will allow vendors a brief evaluation period to evaluate an employee’s performance before incurring the expense of an additional vending license for that person. During the 14-day grace period, new employees will be allowed to engage in regular vending activities.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. The introductory paragraphs of Subsection (1) of Section 9.13 entitled “License for Selling on Public Streets” of the Madison General Ordinances are amended to read as follows:
“(1) Unless otherwise provided for in a subsection of this ordinance, Iit shall be unlawful for any person to vend, sell or offer for sale or procure the sale of any services, goods, wares, tokens, or foodstuffs, or any other article of any kind by putting up a booth, preparing or setting up the vending cart, stand or equipment, preparing food, beverage or articles for sale, stopping a vehicle or person on foot, interacting with potential customers in or around the vending site, taking names for the purpose of making future sales, offering applications or other materials for future sales, or in any other manner participating in the vending operation or attempting to publicly sell or offer for sale any such articles or services upon any highway, street, alley, sidewalk, or public square, unless such person shall have first applied for and obtained the appropriate license(s) required by this Ordinance.
For purposes of this subsection and the licenses described under 9.13(3)(a), “vending” includes ...
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