(a) "Peddling" includes the act of any person, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any other type of conveyance, from place of residence to place of residence carrying, conveying, or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden or truck farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers.
(b) "Soliciting" includes the act of any person, traveling either by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any other type of conveyance, from place of residence to place of residence taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, personal property of any nature whatsoever 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 subject of such sale, or whether such person is collecting advance payment on such sale or not.
(c) Those persons peddling and/or soliciting on behalf of: (1) any institution or organization recognized by a tax board of the State of California and the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, which institution or organization is conducted wholly for the benefit of charitable, religious, political or nonprofit purposes and from which profit is not derived, either directly or indirectly, by any person, or (2) any governmental agency, shall be exempted from the requirements of this Chapter.
(d) The definitions of peddling and soliciting above shall not include any person who sells food or merchandise from a pushcart, stand, display, pedal-driven cart, wagon, showcase, rack, or other nonmotorized conveyance, or from one's person, upon a public sidewalk or other pedestrian path.
(Ord. 201, passed 10-7-2020)