For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PEDDLER. Any person, firm or corporation whether as owner, agent, consignee or employee, whether a resident of the city or not, who engages in the business of carrying from place to place any goods, wares or merchandise and offering to sell or barter or actually selling or bartering such goods or merchandise.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT, ITINERANT MERCHANT or ITINERANT VENDOR (all three are herein referred to as “itinerant merchant”.) Any person, firm or corporation, whether as owner, agent, consignee or employee, whether a resident of the city or not, who engages in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares and merchandise within the city, and who, in furtherance of such purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, railroad boxcar, or boat, public room in hotels, motels, lodging houses, apartments, shops, or any street, alley or other place within the city, for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise, either privately or at public auction provided that such definition hall not be constructed to include:
(1) Any person selling at a flea market taxed under G.S. § 105-53(d).
(2) Any person selling at a yard sale defined as an occasional sale (no more than two times within a 12-month period of personal property in a residential zone.
(3) Any person, firm or corporation who otherwise meets the definition above but who is part of a group of ten or more merchants selling at a shopping area or trade show, and is selling at the invitation of the shopping area or trade show, and where such sales activities do not last longer then seven days.
('70 Code, § 11-92(a), (b))