For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONTRACTOR.
(1) Synonymous with the terms BUILDER, DUAL LICENSED CONTRACTOR, COMMERCIAL CONTRACTOR, and RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR.
(2) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other organization, or a combination of any of them, that, for compensation, undertakes to or offers to undertake to, purports to have the capacity to undertake to, submits a bid or responds to a request for qualification or a request for proposals for construction services to, does himself or herself or by or through others, or directly or indirectly supervises others to:
(a) Construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure, project, development, or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or any other structure or work in connection with the construction.
(b) Connect such structure or improvements to utility service lines and metering devices and the sewer line.
(c) Provide mechanical or structural service for any such structure or improvement.
(3) CONTRACTOR includes subcontractors, specialty contractors, floor covering contractors, landscape contractors, and consultants representing themselves as having the ability to supervise or manage a construction project for the benefit of the property owner, including the hiring and firing of specialty contractors, the scheduling of work on the project, and the selection and purchasing of construction material.
SOLICITOR. Any person, individual or corporation, or firm, whether a resident of the town or not, who travels, or whose agents travel, by foot, automobile, or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, from street to street, or business to business, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, edible foodstuffs, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether collecting advance payments on such sales or not; provided that such definition shall include any person or firm who, for themselves or itself, or for another person or firm hires, leases, uses, or occupies any building, structure, tent, shop, or any other place within the town for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT, ITINERANT MERCHANT, or ITINERANT VENDOR. Any person, corporate or individual, or firm, whether owner or otherwise, whether a resident of the town or not, who engages, or whose agents engage, in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares, merchandise, edible foodstuffs or provisions, within the town, and who in furtherance of such purpose, hires, leases, uses, or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, public room in a hotel, lodging house, apartment, shop, or any street, alley, or other place within the town for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, merchandise, and edible foodstuffs, either privately or at public auction. The person or firm so engaged shall not be relieved from complying with the provisions of this chapter merely by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant, or auctioneer, or by conducting such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any such local dealer, trader, merchant, or auctioneer.
(Ord. 658-17, passed 11-20-2017)