For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) Goods or Wares. Any item of personal property, including, but not limited to, merchandise, appliances, magazines, magazine subscriptions, books, photographs, and produce, but excluding newspapers.
(b) Itinerant Merchant or Vendor. A person with a fixed place of business who has been located in the City for a period of less than one year and who offers for sale goods or wares.
(c) Mobile Food Vendor. A food sales business that is operated from a movable vehicle or portable structure.
(d) Peddler. A person with no fixed place of business who carries wares or goods with him or her which he or she is prepared to sell at the time he or she solicits business and who deals primarily with consumers.
(e) Solicitor or Canvasser. A person with no fixed place of business who deals primarily with consumers and who takes orders for goods for future delivery or for personal services to be furnished in the future, whether by telephone or by house-to-house or business-to-business canvassing.
(Ord. 2019-29. Passed 6-18-19.)