The word SOLICITOR as used in this subchapter shall include any individual, whether a resident of the city or not, traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck, or any other type of conveyance from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street; taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, books or magazines, insurance policies of any kind, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future; whether or not the individual has, carries, or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of the sale, and whether he is collecting advance payments on sales or not. This definition shall include any person who, for himself, or for another person, hires, leases, uses, or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad box car, boat, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop, or any other place within the city for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery. The word SOLICITOR shall include the word CANVASSER.
(‘83 Code, § 112.25)