Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Rev. Code § 715.64 (2026)

Licensing transient dealers and solicitors

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Effective:

October 1, 1953

Latest Legislation:

House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

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Any municipal corporation may license transient dealers, persons who temporarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, and each person who, on the streets or traveling from place to place about such municipal corporation, sells, bargains to sell, or solicits orders for goods, wares, or merchandise by retail. Such license shall be granted as provided by section 715.63 of the Revised Code.

This section does not apply to persons selling by sample only, nor to any agricultural articles or products offered or exposed for sale by the producer.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1959–1965 · leading case: Vill. of West Jefferson v. Robinson, 205 N.E.2d 382 (Ohio 1965).

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Vill. of West Jefferson v. Robinson, 205 N.E.2d 382 (Ohio 1965). · cites it 2× “63 and the last sentence of the first paragraph of Section 715.64 the General Assembly expressed an intention that a municipal corporation should have no power to license, and therefore by necessary implication expressed an intention that a municipal corporation should have no…”

Ravenna v. Ivec, 202 N.E.2d 706 (Ohio Ct. App. 1963). · cites it 2× “” Section 715.64, Revised Code, authorized municipal corporations to license persons (among others) “who travel from place to place about such municipal corporation,” and who “sells, bargains to sell, or solicits orders for goods, wares, or merchandise by retail.”

City of Wooster v. Gentile, 188 N.E.2d 172 (Ohio Ct. App. 1962). · cites it 2× “) Section 715.64. “Any municipal corporation may license transient dealers, persons who temporarily open stores or places for the sale of goods, wares, or merchandise, and each person who, on the streets or traveling from place to place about such municipal corporation, sells,…”

City of Defiance v. Nagel, 159 N.E.2d 791 (Ohio Ct. App. 1959). “, which provide that “no municipal corporation may require of the owner of any product of his own raising, or the manufacturer of any article manufactured by him, a license to vend or sell, by himself or his agent, any such article or product,” and the provisions of §715.64 R.…”

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