# Business Regulation (GBR)

## Title 17. Miscellaneous State Business Licenses

### Subtitle 9. Peddlers

#### Section 17-901

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Calvert County magazine seller license" means a license issued by the clerk in Calvert County to act as a nonresident itinerant magazine seller in Calvert County.

(c) "Foot peddler" means a peddler who travels on foot.

(d) "Motor vehicle peddler" means a peddler who travels by motor vehicle.

(e) "Nonresident itinerant magazine seller" means a person who is not a resident of Calvert County and who sells or offers to sell a subscription to a magazine or other publication in Calvert County.

(f) "One-horse peddler" means a peddler who travels with a wagon or other vehicle drawn by one horse or other beast of burden.

(g)

  (1) "Peddler" means a person who:

    (i) does not have a fixed place of business located in a physical structure; and

    (ii) moves from house to house or place to place carrying articles of merchandise to be sold and delivered concurrently.

  (2) "Peddler" includes a foot peddler, motor vehicle peddler, one-horse peddler, and two-horse peddler.

(h) "Peddler license" means a license issued by the clerk to act as a peddler.

(i) "Two-horse peddler" means a peddler who travels with a wagon or other vehicle drawn by two horses or other beasts of burden.

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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Reg. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)