In recent months, growing numbers of artists have been arrested and their works confiscated under laws against unlicensed vendors.

But, he added, "My primary goal there is quality of life: noise, alcohol consumption and unlicensed general vendors."

She pauses in front of the unlicensed vendor, his face notched with pale scars of sun-cancer.

Here is a list of some of the city's Sisyphean struggles to push unlicensed vendors of food and merchandise off the streets.

Apparently they had a crackdown on the unlicensed vendors in the town centre, but unfortunately they appear to have had wind of it.

Food prepared by unlicensed vendors should be avoided at any time.

No one is arguing to protect the scores of unlicensed vendors who sell counterfeit goods.

While the police try to clamp down on unlicensed vendors, the outdoor sellers are getting bolder - and the customers just keep coming.

Those efforts have included everything from cracking down on panhandling squeegee men and unlicensed vendors to raids on prostitution houses.

There, as elsewhere, they are joined by an uncountable number of unlicensed vendors.