For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHARITABLE. Patriotic, philanthropic, social service, welfare, benevolent, educational, civic or fraternal.
CHARITABLE SOLICITATION. The request, either directly or indirectly, for money, credit, property, financial assistance or other thing of value on the representation that such money, credit, property, financial assistance or other thing of value will be used for a charitable purpose.
MERCHANT. A person whose business is dealing in goods or services.
PEDDLER or ITINERANT MERCHANT. Any person who, as principal or as agent of another, goes from place to place or house to house, carrying for sale, goods, wares, merchandise or services to persons other than merchants or selling or offering to sell for future delivery by sample or catalog, at retail, to persons who are not merchants, goods, wares, merchandise or services.
TEMPORARY MERCHANT. A person who, at a fixed but temporary location within the city, offers for sale goods, wares, merchandise or services, or sells or offers to sell for future delivery by sample, catalog or description, at retail, goods, wares, merchandise or services, to persons who are not merchants. It is intended to apply to persons who expect to act as a merchant in the city for a limited period of time without establishing a permanent place of business within the city.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT. Any person who conducts or participates in the selling or offering for sale of goods, wares or merchandise from a fixed place of business temporarily maintained in the city.
(Prior Code, § 110.01) (Ord. 295, passed 6-14-1982; Ord. 353, passed 10-9-1995)