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Poughkeepsie council adopts local law easing criminal-conviction limits on hawkers and peddlers
Summary
On Jan. 7 the Poughkeepsie Common Council passed Local Law 25-01 revising Chapter 10 to allow applicants with certain sealed records under the Clean Slate Act to seek hawking and peddling licenses; council members asked the Chamberlain's office for a summer report and the city plans a community education forum.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — The Poughkeepsie Common Council on Jan. 7, 2025 passed Local Law 25-01, amending Chapter 10 of the city code that governs hawkers, peddlers and transient vendors to relax restrictions tied to prior criminal convictions where records are sealed under the state Clean Slate Act.
The measure changes Section 10-4 (veterans and restrictions based on prior convictions) and Section 10-20 (penalties), allowing applicants whose records are sealed under Clean Slate to omit those sealed convictions from applications and retain access to the licensing process subject to fingerprinting and review.
The change was presented to the council as a way to open legal vending opportunities to people who previously were denied licenses. City Chamberlain (Chamberlain) said the office saw numerous people refused under the prior ordinance and that "this will now allow for people who, have a criminal…
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