As used in this title, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
BUSINESS: | Employment, occupation, profession, or commercial activity engaged in for profit. Every trade, occupation, profession, vocation, enterprise, nonprofit enterprise, establishment, or activity that is conducted for private profit or benefit and that is not specifically exempted by state law or this chapter. "Business" also includes the lease or rental of commercial facilities/buildings and includes the lease or rental of residential facilities, such as single-family homes, apartments, mobile homes, or condominiums, whether nightly or long-term. "Business" excludes temporary or short-term fundraising activities conducted by a church, school or by a nonprofit civic, fraternal organization, or individual under the age of eighteen. |
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT: | All structures used for sale or production of goods or services for profit. |
CONTRACTOR: | A person, firm, or corporation who, in the pursuit of any independent business, undertakes to do a specific piece of work for other persons, using his own means and methods and who renders service in the course of an independent occupation representing the will of his employer only as to the result of his work and not as a means by which it is accomplished. This definition shall include all building trades such as, but not limited to, general, carpenters, electrical, plumbing, roofing, mechanical, sheet metal and excavating contractors. |
HOME INDUSTRIES: | A trade, occupation, or profession for profit in the confines of a residential dwelling provided it is a secondary use of the dwelling and employs only family members. There shall be no outward signs or display of the profession without an approved sign permit from the Town of Ennis. |
HOTEL: | Includes motels, inns, boarding houses and lodging houses. |
ITINERANT VENDOR: | Any person engaged or employed in the business of retailing to consumers by going from consumer to consumer, either on the streets or their place of residence or employment and there soliciting selling, or offering to sell, or exhibiting for sale (by sample, by catalogue or otherwise) or taking orders for future delivery of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or for services to be performed in the future. Itinerant vendors are prohibited within the Town of Ennis. |
LODGING FACILITY: | A residential or commercial building that contains individual sleeping rooms or suites and that provides overnight lodging for compensation. "Lodging facility" includes a hotel, motel, resort, dormitory, inn, condominium, dude ranch, guest ranch, hostel, public lodging house, time share, bed and breakfast facility, or nightly rental. "Lodging facility" also includes any campground, recreational vehicle or trailer park, or similar facility. |
MANUFACTURING: | The process of making goods, by machinery or by other method; the production of articles for use from raw or prepared materials by giving such materials new forms, qualities, properties, or combinations. |
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: | Any group which is religious, charitable, social, educational, recreational, or scientific which does not contemplate the distribution of pecuniary gains, profit, or dividends to the members thereof and that pecuniary profit is not the object of the group. |
PERSON: | An individual or a corporation, firm, partnership, association, or business entity. |
PROFESSIONAL: | Any person whose occupation is subject to the licensing and regulation requirements of title 37, Montana Code Annotated. |
SHORT TERM RENTAL: | A dwelling unit, or portion thereof, that is offered or provided to a guest by a short-term rental owner or operator for a fee for fewer than 30 consecutive nights. They are commonly referred to as vacation rentals and are a form of tourist or transient accommodations. Short-term rental units may be whole house rentals, apartments or condominiums but do not include hotels, motels, hospitals or nursing homes. For the purpose of administration and enforcement of this title, the terms "overnight rental," "nightly rental," and "vacation rental" are interchangeable with short-term rentals. |
TRANSFERRED BUSINEES: | Any business that changes location from one address to another address. |
TRANSPORTATION FIRMS: | Transportation for hire, while engaged in intracity, interurban, or intercity transporting of persons, freight, commodities, or any other type of goods or refuse. |
UTILITIES: | Utility services falling within the following listed categories: electric power, natural gas, telephone and any other public utility not otherwise classified in this title, which is regulated by the Public Service Commission. |
VEHICLE: | Every device in, upon, or by which persons or property are or may be transported upon a public way. (Prior Code §§ 5.04.010 – 5.04.110; amd. Ord. passed 7-14-2022) |