Transient Merchant Licensing Act

This act enables counties that meet stated thresholds — measured by area, population, and taxable property — to adopt or amend a home rule charter and, in doing so, choose their own form of county government rather than operate solely under the structure supplied by general law. It establishes the procedure for doing so: designating and filing the names of charter commission members, submitting the formation question to the voters, convening an organizational meeting, allowing a set period for the commission to complete its work, publishing the proposed charter or amendment, and putting the result to a ratification vote. It also governs what a charter may contain — including a county governing council, public works contracting, and satisfaction of judgments against the county — and voids provisions that conflict with state sovereignty and public policy. --- Flagging a data problem rather than writing around it: none of the section titles supports anything about transient merchants, itinerant vendors, peddlers, licensing, or fees. They describe county home rule charter government end to end. Either the section set is mapped to the wrong act, or the act's name in the source is wrong for this state's enactment. The paragraph above is accurate to the sections but would be wrong on a page headed "Transient Merchant Licensing Act" — worth checking the act→section mapping before this renders, and checking whether the other adopting state's sections look the same way.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.