MOBILE, Alabama - For the approximately 50 vendors on Cathedral Square on along Dauphin Street's sidewalks during LODA ArtWalk, it's time to pay up.

That's the message city officials are sending on social media as they seek to enforce a peddler's license on the vendors who display and sell their wares during the monthly event in downtown Mobile.

Ann Rambeau, manager of the city of Mobile's Special Events Department, said in an email that while a peddlar's license has always been required, it has not been enforced during ArtWalk.

The license is $120 a year, plus a one-time $10 fee that is inclusive of sales tax.

"I think that our brick and mortar art galleries ... it has been a desire of theirs that there be a little more of an even playing field," Carol Hunter, spokeswoman with the Downtown Mobile Alliance said Tuesday. "The brick and mortar folks pay the sales taxes and business licenses and all of that. They always felt it was a little bit of an unfair advantage for folks to set up in public right away and conduct business."

Hunter said it's always been a desire for the vendors to participate in ArtWalk. "We want them to continue to be down there," she added.

Hunter said she doesn't believe the annual fee will deter most of them from setting up their displays at Cathedral Square.

"It's a pretty minimal fee," she said.

The Mobile Arts Council initially considered establishing a new license for vendors during ArtWalk only. The license would be in place for 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. only during ArtWalk.

The city opted to enforce the current peddler's license in place.

The next ArtWalk is scheduled for Nov. 14.

The following are guidelines the city plans to enforce: