The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
CANVASSER: Any person canvassing for funds door to door in the City on behalf of a charitable, religious or nonprofit organization as defined in internal revenue service code section 501(c)(3).
NON-COMMERCIAL DOOR-TO-DOOR ADVOCATE: A person who goes door-to-door for the primary purpose of disseminating religious, political, social, or other ideological beliefs. For purpose of this ordinance, the term door-to-door advocate shall fall under the term solicitor and include door-to-door canvassing and pamphleteering intended for non-commercial purposes.
PEDDLER: A person who goes from house-to-house, door-to-door, business-to-business, street-to-street, or any other type of place-to-place movement, for the purpose of offering for sale, displaying for exposing for sale, selling or attempting to sell, and delivering immediately upon sale, the goods, wares, products, merchandise, or other personnel property that the person is carrying or otherwise transporting. For purpose of this ordinance, the term peddler shall have the same common meaning as the term hawker.
SOLICITOR: A person who goes from house-to-house, door-to-door, business-to-business, street-to-street, or any other type of place-to-place movement, for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain orders for goods, wares, products, merchandise, other personal property, or services of which he or she may be carrying or transporting samples, or that may be described in a catalog or by other means, and for which delivery or performance shall occur at a later time. The absence of samples or catalogs shall not remove a person from the scope of this provision if the actual purpose of the person’s activity is to obtain or attempt to obtain orders as discussed above. For purposes of this ordinance, the term solicitor shall have the same meaning as the term canvasser.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT: Any person, whether as principal, employee or agent, who engages in, does, or transacts any temporary or transient business in the City, either in one locality or traveling from place to place in the City selling goods, wares, and merchandise, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hires, leases, occupies or uses a building, structure, vehicle, property, or other place for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise.
(Ord. 2014-02, 2-18-2014; amd. Ord. 2021-05, 3-15-2021)