2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-15 - Itinerant Vendors
§ 5-15-3 - Deposit with treasurer – Issuance of license – Acts permitted.
SECTION 5-15-3
§ 5-15-3 Deposit with treasurer – Issuance of license – Acts permitted. – (a) Every itinerant vendor desiring to do business in this state shall deposit with the general treasurer:
(1) The sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) as a special deposit, and, after that deposit, upon application in proper form, which includes proof that the itinerant vendor has been issued a permit to make sales at retail by the division of taxation, and the payment of a further sum of five hundred dollars ($500) as a state license fee, the general treasurer shall issue to him or her an itinerant vendor's license, authorizing him or her to do business in this state, in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, for the term of three (3) months from the date of the issuance; or
(2) The sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) as a special deposit, and, after that deposit, upon application in proper form, which includes proof that the itinerant vendor has been issued a permit to make sales at retail by the division of taxation, and the payment of a further sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for each day the itinerant vendor proposes to do business in this state as a state license fee, the general treasurer shall issue to him or her an itinerant vendor's license authorizing him or her to do business in the state, in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, for the number of days from the date of issuance for which the state license fee has been paid.
(b) Every license shall contain a copy of the application upon which it is granted. That license is not transferable and does not give authority to more than one person to sell goods as an itinerant vendor either by agent or clerk, or in any other way than in his or her own proper person. Any licensee may have the assistance of one or more persons in conducting his or her business, who have authority to aid their principal but not to act for or without him or her.
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