Indiana Code Title 25. Professions and Occupations § 25-37-1-11

Sec. 11. (a) Towns and cities may tax, license, and regulate transient merchants and charge a fee for the transaction of business by them.  Towns and cities may provide for punishment of violators, subject to the limitations of IC 36-1-3.

(b) This subsection does not apply to a county having a consolidated city.  A city or town license may not be in lieu of a county license.  This chapter does not supersede any ordinance regulating transient merchants.

(c) This subsection applies to a county having a consolidated city.  A transient merchant is not required to obtain a county transient merchant license under this chapter.  A transient merchant may not transact business in a municipality located wholly or partially within the county unless the transient merchant and the owner of the property to be offered for sale (or sold if the property is not owned by the vendor) have first obtained a license from the fiscal officer of the municipality under this chapter.