For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:
1. "Peddler" means any person carrying goods or merchandise who sells or offers for sale for immediate delivery such goods or merchandise from house to house, or upon the public street or Multi-Use Recreational trails. An ice cream truck is considered a peddler unless it contains a mobile kitchen and facilitates the preparation, marketing and sale of food that is whole and unprocessed, packaged, or prepared in which case the ice cream truck is considered a Mobile Food Vendor subject to Municipal Code Chapter 142.
2. "Solicitor" means any person who solicits or attempts to solicit from house to house, upon the public street or Multi-Use Recreational trails any contribution or donation or any order for goods, services, subscriptions or merchandise to be delivered at a future date. The definition of "solicitor" also includes any person engaged in the business of bill posting.
(Ord. 2155 - Oct. 23 Supp.)
3. "Transient merchant" means any person who engages in a temporary or itinerant merchandising business and in the course of such business hires, leases or occupies any building or structure whatsoever, or who operates out of a vehicle which is parked anywhere within the City limits. Temporary association with a local merchant, dealer, trader or auctioneer, or conduct of such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local merchant, dealer, trader, or auctioneer does not exempt any person from being considered a transient merchant.