As used in this chapter:
(a) “Nonprofit organization” means a nonprofit organization in good standing with the state of Michigan for religious or charitable purposes.
(b) “Person” means any natural person, corporation or partnership, including both principals and agents thereof, or two or more persons having a joint or common interest.
(c) “Transient merchant” means any person, firm, association or corporation engaging temporarily in a retail sale of goods, wares or merchandise, in any place in the City and who, for the purpose of conducting business, occupies any lot, building, room, or structure of any kind.
(d) “Vendor” includes the terms “Transient Merchant” and any of the following:
(1) A person who travels by foot, motor vehicle or any other type of conveyance carrying or transporting merchandise of any nature, or food, whether prepared for immediate consumption or not, for the purpose of selling or offering to sell such wares to purchasers, or who offers contemporaneous performance of a trade or service;
(2) A person who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers to sell from a vehicle, railroad car or other type of conveyance, merchandise of any nature, including food, whether prepared for immediate consumption or not, to prospective purchasers;
(3) A person who travels by foot, motor vehicle or any other type of conveyance from place to place, house to house, or street to street, taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of merchandise of any nature for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the merchandise, and whether or not such person is collecting advance payments on such sale; or
(4) Any person who leases or occupies any building, structure, tent, room or conveyance for the purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
(Ord. 11-89. Passed 5-30-89; Ord. 06-2014. Passed 7-1-14; Ord. 10-2015. Passed 12-15-15.)