The term ITINERANT VENDOR when used in this chapter includes any person, natural or artificial, who engages in or conducts a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise within the village with the intention of continuing in such business in any one location for a period of not more than four months and who for the purpose of carrying on such business hires, leases or occupies in whole or in part any room, building or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise. The term does not apply to hawkers or peddlers; to vendors engaged in the sale of food or food products for human consumption; to commercial travelers or selling agents when making sales in the usual course of business; or to salesmen who sell by sample for future delivery.
(1997 Code, § 113.01)