For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:
1. "Peddler" means any person carrying goods or merchandise who sells or offers for sale for immediate delivery such goods or merchandise from house to house or upon the public street.
2. "Solicitor" means any person who solicits or attempts to solicit from house to house or upon the public street any contribution or donation or any order for goods, services, subscriptions or merchandise to be delivered at a future date.
3. "Transient merchant" means any person who engages in a temporary or itinerant merchandising business and in the course of such business hires, leases or occupies any building or structure whatsoever, or who operates out of a vehicle which is parked anywhere within the City limits. Temporary association with a local merchant, dealer, trader or auctioneer, or conduct of such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local merchant, dealer, trader or auctioneer does not exempt any person from being considered a transient merchant.
4. "Vendor" means any person who sells any consumable food, beverage or non-food item upon any publicly-owned City property to the public in the City.
5. "Mobile Food Unit" means any mobile retail food establishment such as a food truck, food trailer, or food cart. A Mobile Food Unit is also considered to be a transient merchant.
6. "Food Truck" means any Mobile Food Unit able to move on its own, designed for a limited amount of cooking, warming, and serving food from the interior of the unit.
7. "Food Trailer" means any Mobile Food Unit which must be pulled behind another vehicle, designed for a limited amount of cooking, warming, and serving food from the interior of the unit.
8. "Food Cart" means any small Mobile Food Unit with a covering such as an umbrella that is designed to serve already prepared food from the exterior of the unit.