For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PEDDLING. Includes traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, books, magazines, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers, or without traveling from place to place, selling or offering the same for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car or other vehicle or conveyance on public or private property; and further provided that soliciting orders and as a separate transaction making deliveries to purchasers as a part of a scheme or design to evade the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed PEDDLING subject to the provisions of this chapter. The word PEDDLING shall include the words HAWK and VEND. However, the word PEDDLING shall not include solicitation of funds by any charitable organization as defined in the ordinance entitled “Ordinance Concerning Solicitation of Charitable Funds” (as codified in Chapter 113 of this code of ordinances).
PERSON. Includes the singular and the plural and shall also mean and include any person, firm or corporation, association, club, co-partnership or society, or any other organization.
(Ord. passed 9-23-1983; Ord. passed 7-1-2011)
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 14, page 269