City of Madison - File #: 04554

• File #: 04554
• Version: 1
• Name: vendor equipment and electrical outlets
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/13/2006
• In control: VENDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (prior to 11-01-2007)
• On agenda: 10/17/2006
• Final action: 10/17/2006
• Enactment date: 11/2/2006
• Enactment #: ORD-06-00147
• Title: Amending Sections 9.13(6)(j)1.b. and 9.13(6)(j)4. of the Madison General Ordinances regarding placement of merchant vendor equipment on the State Street Mail/Capitol Concourse and Section 9.13(6)(l)2. of the Madison General Ordinances regarding vendors' use of electrical outlets.
• Sponsors: Michael E. Verveer, Cindy Thomas

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/17/2006	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
9/27/2006	1	VENDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE (prior to 11-01-2007)	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
9/19/2006	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer
9/13/2006	1	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Approved As To Form
9/13/2006	1	Attorney's Office	Fiscal Note Required / Approval
9/13/2006	1	Finance Dept/Approval Group	Approved Fiscal Note By The Comptroller's Office
9/13/2006	1	Attorney's Office	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
No expenditure required.
Title
Amending Sections 9.13(6)(j)1.b. and 9.13(6)(j)4. of the Madison General Ordinances regarding placement of merchant vendor equipment on the State Street Mail/Capitol Concourse and Section 9.13(6)(l)2. of the Madison General Ordinances regarding vendors' use of electrical outlets.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance clarifies that street vendors can only use the city's 110 volt outlets available on the mall/concourse, and not the 220 volt outlets. This ordinance also eliminates the option for a merchant with a business with two assigned street addresses to have two separate merchant vending licenses and two vending sites to display merchandise. Instead, the merchant must choose one site. This is intended to accompany changes made by resolution to the vending regulations, which will provide more flexibility for vendors with a large street frontage to display more merchandise. Finally, this ordinance clarifies that sidewalk caf? and merchant vending sites on State Street cannot be closer than 6 feet to the building face, when there are no "sparkle light poles" on the street, because sparkle poles are being removed as part of the State Street redesign.

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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

1. Subparagraph b. of Paragraph 1 entitled "Use of Electricity" of Subdivision (j) entitled "Miscellaneous Restrictions on Merchant Vendors and Sidewalk Cafes s" of Subsection (6) entitled "Regulations and Procedures for Vending on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse" of Section 9.13 entitled "License for Selling on Public Streets" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:

"b. Merchandise may only be displayed in specific sites defined by the street frontage of the street level merchant's or restaurant's place of business and otherwise complying with the requiremen...