In this Chapter the following definitions shall be applicable:
(a) Charitable Organization. Shall include any benevolent, philanthropic, religious, patriotic or eleemosynary person, partnership, corporation, association or organization, or one purporting to be such registered under Sec. 440.42, Wis. Stats. Examples are, but not limited to, Boy/Girl Scouts, FFA, American Heart Association, etc.
(b) Administrator. The Village of Edgar Administrator or Deputy Clerk-Treasurer.
(c) Direct Seller. Any individual who, for himself or herself, or for a partnership, association, organization or business, sells goods or takes sales orders for the later delivery of goods, at any location other than the permanent business place or residence of said individual, partnership, association, organization or business, and shall include, but not be limited to, peddlers and transient merchants. The sale of goods includes donations required by the direct seller for the retention of goods by a prospective customer or donor.
(d) Goods. Personal property of any kind, and shall include goods provided incidental to services offered or sold.
(e) Merchandise. Shall include personal property of any kind, and shall include merchandise, goods, or materials provided incidental to services offered or sold. The sale of merchandise includes donations required by the seller for the retention of merchandise by a donor or prospective customer.
(f) Permanent Merchant. Any person who, for at least one (1) year prior to the consideration of the application of this Chapter to said merchant:
(1) Has continuously operated an established place of business within the Village of Edgar; or
(2) Has continuously resided in the Village and does business from his/her residence.
(g) Person. All humans of any age or sex, partnerships, corporations, associations or organizations, groups and any other description of a collection of people working in concert or for the same purpose or objective.
(h) Solicitor. Any person who plans, conducts, manages or carries on any campaign or drive in the Village for the purpose of soliciting contributions, travels from residence to residence for or on behalf of any charitable organization or any other person, organization, or who engages in the business of, or holds himself/herself out to persons in the State as independently engaged in the business of soliciting contributions for such purpose.
(i) Transient Merchant. Any direct seller who engages in the retail sale of merchandise at any place in the Village of Edgar temporarily, and who does not intend to become and does not become a permanent merchant of such place. The sale of goods includes donations required by the transient merchant for the retention of goods by a donor or prospective customer. For purposes of this Chapter, sale of merchandise includes a sale in which the personal services rendered upon or in connection with the merchandise constitutes the greatest part of value for the price received, but does not include a farm auction sale conducted by or for a resident farmer of personal property used on the farm, or the sale of produce or other perishable products at retail or wholesale by a resident of this state.