For the purposes of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT, ITINERANT MERCHANT, or ITINERANT VENDOR.
(1) Any person, whether as owner, agent, consignee, or employee, whether a resident of the city or not, who engages in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares, or merchandise within the city and who, in furtherance of the purpose, hires, leases, uses, or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, railroad boxcar, or boat, public rooms in hotels, lodginghouses, apartments, shops, or any street, alley, or other place within the city for the exhibition and sale of the goods, wares, or merchandise, either privately or at public auction; provided, that the definition shall not be construed to include any person who, while occupying the temporary location, does not sell from stock, but exhibits samples only for the purpose of obtaining orders for future delivery only.
(2) The person so engaged shall not be relieved from complying with the provisions of this subchapter merely by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant, or auctioneer or by conducting the transient business in connection with, as a part of or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant, or auctioneer.
(Prior Code, § 120.120)