For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DANCE. Includes a dance which is open to the public, or for which admission is charged directly or indirectly.
PERSON. Includes the singular and plural and any individual, firm, corporation, association, club, co-partnership or society or any other organization.
SPECIAL EVENT. Any activity which is likely to attract at any one time an assembly of persons, conducted for a specified period at one or more locations within the city under the auspices of and subject to the supervision and direction of a single person, including, but not limited to, festivals, fairs, shows, sales, sidewalk sales, exhibitions, auctions, city or regional celebrations, athletic events and public dances.
TEMPORARY OUTDOOR BUSINESS. Any activity involving the sale or offering for sale of any good or service at a location outside a building without the creation of any permanent structure.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT.
(1) Any person who offers food, beverages, produce, merchandise, a service or other thing of value for sale within the city on a temporary or seasonal basis. This definition includes permanent merchants conducting temporary outdoor business activities outside the building housing the primary business.
(2) The following classes of transient merchants are hereby established:
(a) CLASS 1. A transient merchant requiring direct connection to city-operated utilities for the preparation or storage of that which is being offered for sale. UTILITIES includes water, storm sewer or sanitary sewer. CLASS 1 TRANSIENT MERCHANT may operate a temporary outdoor business for a period not to exceed 180 aggregate days in any 365-day period.
(b) CLASS 2. A transient merchant not requiring direct connection to city-operated utilities for the preparation or storage of that which is being offered for sale. A permit to a CLASS 2 TRANSIENT MERCHANT may operate a temporary outdoor business for a period not to exceed aggregate 90 days in any 365-day period.
(Ord. 378, passed 7-11-2005)