For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ITINERANT MERCHANTS and TRANSIENT VENDORS. Include all persons, principals, agents or employees who engage in a temporary or transient business in the village, either in one locality or traveling from place to place within the village to sell goods, wares and merchandise, whether or not the persons, for the purpose of carrying on the business, hire, lease or occupy any building or structure, room, place, space, vacant lot, railroad boxcar, boat, vessel or vehicle of any kind for the exhibition and sale of goods, wares and merchandise. The terms shall also include all persons, principals, agents or employees who transiently or temporarily engage in the business of assembling and trucking or assembling and transporting in any manner whatsoever any goods, wares or merchandise for the purpose of selling and delivering the same in wholesale lots or quantities and at wholesale prices to any retail dealer.
PEDDLER. Includes any person, whether a resident of the village or not, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle or any other type of conveyance from place to place, house to house or street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions and offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers or who, without traveling from place to place, shall sell or offer the same for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car or other vehicle or conveyance, and further provided that one who solicits orders and as a separate transaction makes delivery to purchasers as a part of the scheme or design to evade the provisions of this subchapter shall be deemed a peddler subject to the provisions of this subchapter. PEDDLER shall include the words HAWKER and HUCKSTER.
TEMPORARY or TRANSIENT. Any business transacted or conducted for which definite arrangements have not been made to remain in the village conducting and transacting the business for at least one month.
(Ord. 1017, passed 10-23-2013)