For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DOOR-TO-DOOR SOLICITOR. Any individual, whether a resident of the village or not, traveling either by foot, bicycle, automobile, motor truck, or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, in the village, selling or attempting to sell goods, wares, merchandise, and personal property of any nature whatsoever or services for immediate or future delivery.
ITINERANT MERCHANT. A merchant, other than a merchant with an established retail store in the village, who travels from place to place to sell goods or who sells an inventory of goods from a building, vacant lot, or other location within the village. A vendor who sells goods in the town for less than six consecutive months is considered an itinerant merchant unless he or she stopped selling goods in the village because of his or her death or disablement, the insolvency of his or her business, or the destruction of his or her inventory by fire or other catastrophe.
MOBILE FOOD UNIT. Any vehicle other than a pushcart, from which is vended prepared food, drink, or fresh fruit, but shall not include the sale from such vehicle of fresh meat, flowers, fruit, and produce.
PUSHCART. Any rubber-wheeled vehicle or portable cart, the design and appearance of which is subject to review and approval by the Village Manager or his/her designee, used for displaying, keeping, or storing any article by a vendor or door-to-door solicitor (other than a motor vehicle, bicycle or trailer) which may be moved without the assistance of a motor and which does not require registration by the state department of motor vehicles, and from which prepared food, fruit, merchandise, drink, and flowers may be sold.
SPECIALTY MARKET. A location, other than a permanent retail store, where space is rented to others for the purpose of selling goods at retail or offering goods for sale at retail.
SPECIALTY MARKET VENDOR. A person, other than a merchant with an established retail store in the county, who transports an inventory of goods to a specialty market and, at that location, displays the goods for sale and sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail.
VENDOR. A person who hawks, peddles, sells or offers for sale any prepared food, fresh flowers, produce or any goods or merchandise. Vendor includes door-to-door solicitor, itinerant merchant and mobile food unit owner/operator.
(Ord. 2023-07, passed 9-25-23)