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shall deliver such copy to the applicant. The applicant shall thereafter, at all times while engaged in peddling • within this city, have such copy in his possession, and upon request by an officer of the city charged with enforcing of this chapter, exhibit such certificate. The commissioner of revenue and his employees may administer the oaths required by this subsection. • (4) Any peddler failing to exhibit such certificate in violation of this subsection, or making any false statement in the certificate or affidavit aforesaid, or by permitting the certificate to be used in the sale of any family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by him shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (5) No city license shall be required of persons offering items for sale in the officially established city market created pursuant to Chapter 8 of this Code; provided, that such persons shall first obtain from the department of parks and recreation a producer's certificate pursuant to the provisions of this section for sales at the city market and at no other place. Such certificate may include farm produce, food stuffs, art work or handicrafts grown or produced by the seller, members of his family or farm laborers employed by the seller, and not purchased by the seller for resale. Such certificates shall be used by the producers themselves and shall in no case be transferable to any third parties. The commissioner of revenue is authorized to delegate to the department of parks and recreation the authority to issue such certificates only for use at the city market. (f) Subclassification D: Itinerants. All persons, whether principal, agent or salesman, who engage in temporary or transient business in the city in one (1) or more places and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, do not have a lease on a building or lot for a period of twelve (12) months or longer are itinerant merchants. All persons bringing to and exhibiting for sale to consumers at retail in the city, in trucks, in temporary places or fixed places of sale, goods or merchandise of any character as bankrupt, consignee, trustee, railroad wreck, fire, slaughter stock, leftover, exposition stock or stock of like nature are distressed merchandise vendors. Every itinerant merchant and distressed merchandise vendor shall obtain a license before doing business in the city. The annual tax on such license shall be fifty dell -s ($50.00) one hundred twenty five dollars ($125.00). 2. This ordinance shall take effect May 1, 1995. Approved by Council April 3, 1995 -3- rk of City Council"