(a) "Canvasser" means any person who obtains or influences the opinions of the residents of the City by traveling door to door either by foot, automobile, truck or other type of conveyance and calling upon private residences including any house, apartment or other dwelling, or any place of business in the City, but does not seek to obtain funds or other contributions for any cause whatsoever.
(b) "Charitable" includes the words patriotic, philanthropic, social service, welfare, eleemosynary, benevolent, educational, civic, fraternal, veterans, medical and social research, either actual or purported.
(c) "Door-to-door salesperson in interstate commerce" means a person who travels from door to door calling on private residences or places of business in the City for the purpose of taking orders for future delivery of goods or services to be furnished, supplied or delivered from sources outside the State and which is not done in connection with any appeal for any charitable or religious purpose.
(d) "Peddler" means any person who travels door to door either by foot, automobile, truck, or any other type of conveyance and calls upon private residences, including any house, apartment or other dwelling, or any place of business within the City, taking or attempting to take orders for profit for the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise or personal property of any nature whatsoever for immediate or future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed immediately or in the future.
(e) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock company, religious sect, religious denomination, society, organization or league, or any combination of them, and includes any trustee, member, receiver, assignee, agent or other representative thereof.
(f) "Place of Business" means every separate location occupied by an individual, firm, company or business entity at which one carries on his, her or its business, employment, occupation, profession or commercial activity.
(g) "Religious organization" means any church, body of communicants or group that is not organized or operated for profit that gathers in common membership for regular worship and religious observances.
(h) "Solicitor" means any person who seeks to obtain funds for any cause whatsoever by traveling door to door either by foot, automobile, truck or any type of conveyance and calling upon private residences, including any house, apartment or other dwelling, or any place of business within the City.
(Ord. 2004-2. Passed 1-27-04.)