As used in this chapter:
(a) "Commercial solicitor" means a peddler, transient merchant or other person who solicits by traveling about from place to place or from a fixed location or who is engaging temporarily in the retail sale of goods within the Township where such activity is for commercial purposes.
(b) "Distributor" means any person distributing or selling, or offering to distribute or sell, goods, or who solicits money, property of value or financial contributions in exchange for goods, services or both, at any location in the Township.
(c) "Employee" means any person who acts for or on behalf of any person required to be licensed under this chapter where such activity involves solicitation or assisting or furthering solicitation, whether such employee renders such service with or without compensation, regardless of age and regardless of whether such person is an independent contractor, agent or employee under common law or statutory definition.
(d) "Goods" means any property offered for sale, including wares, merchandise, written material, leaflets, petitions, newspapers, perishable items, farm products or any other items for which monies or other property of value is requested in exchange.
(e) “Noncommercial solicitation” means soliciting for political, charitable, religious or other noncommercial purposes.
(f) “Outdoor shopkeeper” means any person, not a transient merchant, who has an interest in the property where business is conducted as fee owner, land contract vendee, lessee or licensee, and who offers goods for sale from any place on the land not enclosed within a permanent structure previously approved as part of a site plan for the entire parcel under any ordinance of the Township, or otherwise within a fixed and permanent lawful structure upon the premises in conformity with all applicable Federal and State statutes and Township ordinances. This definition shall not include the sale of goods which are incidental or in addition to the principal lawful business conducted on the premises, where the goods sold are of the same or a similar kind as that sold pursuant to the principal lawful business, and the goods sold are sold by the principal lawful business on the premises. This definition shall also not include the sale of perishable farm products, including vegetables and fruits produced and manufactured by the person on the premises, where such goods are offered for sale.
(g) “Peddler” means any person who goes about from place to place traveling by foot, vehicle or any other form of conveyance, selling or offering for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, including but not limited to selling or offering to sell by sample or description for delivery at a future time. Peddler shall also mean any person who goes about from place to place traveling by foot, vehicle or other form of conveyance offering to sell, selling or furnishing utility services such as by way of illustration, telecommunication services, electric or gas; or other services or combinations of goods and services. Excluded from this definition shall be a person whose activity involves solely in the business of acting as a wholesaler to retailers for resale or to manufacturers in the use of their processes.
(h) “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, public or private, or other form of legal entity.
(i) “Right-of-way” means any property in the Township acquired, owned, maintained or controlled by any public agency, including all paved or unpaved portions of any streets, highways or roadways, shoulders of such streets, highways or roadways, sidewalks within the public right-of-way, the median between paved portions of an established street, highway or roadway, and any other property constituting part of a public right-of-way.
(j) “Solicitation” means the act of offering or attempting to offer goods for immediate or future delivery in direct or indirect exchange for money or other property of value, or the act of seeking or attempting to seek contributions of money or other property of value for charitable, political, religious or other noncommercial or commercial purposes.
(k) “Transient merchant” means any person who engages temporarily in the retail sale of goods in any place in the Township and, for the purpose of conducting such activity, occupies or is located upon or in any developed or undeveloped parcel of land or any portion thereof, either within or without, in whole or in part, any building or structure of any kind. Excluded is any person selling goods raised, completely produced or completely manufactured by the individual offering the same for sale, on the premises where such retail business is being conducted.
(Ord. 308. Passed 3-20-95; Ord. 386. Passed 6-1-09; Ord. 435. Passed 6-26-17.)