In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Canvasser” or “solicitor” means any person, corporate or individual, or firm, who travels, or whose agents travel, either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, from street to street or business to business, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, edible foodstuffs, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for the services to be furnished or performed in the future.
“Clerk” means the finance director or his designee.
“Peddler” means any person, individual or corporate, or firm, who travels, or whose agents travel, by foot, wagon, automobile or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, from street to street or business to business, carrying provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers or who, without traveling from place to place, shall sell or offer the same from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car or other conveyance.
“Transient merchant,” “itinerant merchant” or “itinerant vendor” means any person, corporate or individual, or firm, whether owner or otherwise, who engages, or whose agents engage, in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares, merchandise, edible foodstuffs or provisions, within the city, and who in furtherance of such purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, railroad boxcar, boat, public room in a hotel, lodginghouse, apartment, shop, or any street, alley or other place within the city for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, merchandise and edible foodstuffs, either privately or at public auction. The person or firm so engaged shall not be relieved from complying with the provisions of this chapter merely by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer or by conducting such transient business in connection with, as part of, or in the name of any such local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer.
(Ord. 1309 §§ 1 (part), 2 (part), 1990)