For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
SOLICITOR.
(1) Any person contacting residents of the city in a serial nature through personal visits for the purpose of offering goods or services for sale, seeking donations of goods or money, or other attempts at monetary gain. The activities regulated herein shall apply to individuals acting on their own behalf or on behalf of an organization with which they are affiliated. SOLICITOR shall also apply to temporary vendors of sales or services who without a fixed, determined and permanent location within the city at which their business is transacted carry on their occupation or practice their profession and includes, but is not limited to, persons commonly referred to as PEDDLERS, TRANSIENT MERCHANTS and CANVASSERS.
(2) (a) Any person who shall sell or offer for sale goods or wares, or other articles of value, at any point or place in the city other than upon land owned or leased by the person.
(b) Any person traveling either by foot, motor vehicle or any other type of conveyance from place to place, house to house or street to street, taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, for future delivery, whether or not the individual carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of the sale.
(Ord. 225, passed 9-15-1999)