725.01 DEFINITIONS.

   (a)   "Person" includes the singular and the plural and shall also include any person, firm or corporation, association, club, copartnership or society or any other organization.

   (b)   "Peddler" includes any person, whether a resident of the City or not, traveling by foot, wagon, motor vehicle, trailer 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, agricultural products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers or taking orders for the purchase of goods, wares or merchandise by description, sample, lists or catalogues, or subscriptions for books and magazines from a person not a dealer therein, or who, without traveling from place to place, shall sell or offer the same for sale from a wagon, motor vehicle, railroad car, trailer or other vehicle or conveyance or from any place other than a permanent building. "Peddler" includes hawker, huckster and solicitor. This definition shall not include:

      (1)   Any person working for or on behalf of any recognized educational, political, civic, religious, medical or charitable organization or cause;

      (2)   Any person who sells or offers for sale any agricultural product of his own raising;

      (3)   Any person engaged in the sale of dairy or bakery products by traveling over regularly established routes and transacting business on private property; and

      (4)   Any person who offers to sell, sells or delivers goods, wares, merchandise or agricultural products or provisions exclusively to commercial business establishments.

      (5)   Canvassers.

   (c)   "Canvasser". Any person who seeks to disseminate any lawful message by means of traveling from place to place without soliciting funds or donations. "Canvasser" also includes persons disseminating information about products or services for sale or other matters so long as those persons do not attempt to make personal contact with residents, businesses or members of the public.
(Ord. 36-14. Passed 4-28-14.)