For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Agent" means a person engaged in telephone canvassing or solicitation, or in a house-to-house canvass demonstrating or taking orders for any goods, wares or merchandise, or taking orders from samples where goods are to be delivered later.
(b) "Canvasser or solicitor" means any individual, whether or not a resident of the City, soliciting by telephone or traveling, either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor trucks or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from state to state, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares or merchandise, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed at such times, or in the future, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject for sale or whether he is collecting advance payments on sales or not. Provided, however, that this definition shall include any person who, for himself or for another person, firm or corporation hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, tent, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or any other place within the City for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
(c) "Goods, wares and merchandise" includes, but is not restricted to, a photograph and coupons to tickets good in whole or in part for a photograph, magazine article or other merchandise.
(d) "Itinerant peddler or hawker" means a nonresident of the City, who by telephone sales or by going from house to house or place to place, exposes for sale and sells goods, wares and merchandise under the conditions and circumstances stated for a peddler.
(e) "Peddler" means a person who solicits by telephone or who brings goods, wares and merchandise from outside the City or State, or where the goods, wares or merchandise are manufactured in the City for sale at retail and is in this State at the time that all negotiations prior to and at the sale thereof are had, and the goods, wares or merchandise is not sold in the original packages in interstate commerce, but at retail in small quantities by means of telephone solicitation or house to house, or place to place canvass. Goods ordered or in transit which were so ordered without reference to particular sales shall be deemed to be in the State.
(Ord. 44-96. Passed 6-4-96.)