MOTOR VEHICLES. Any vehicle used for the displaying, storing or transporting of articles offered for sale by a vendor which is required to be licensed and registered with the Secretary of State of Illinois. The term is to include trailers, trucks and automobiles.
SOLICITOR.
(1) As used in this code, the term solicitor shall mean every person who shall sell or offer for sale, barter or exchange, at retail, any goods, wares, food items, or merchandise from a stationary stand or vehicle (including food trucks) or by traveling from place to place in, along and upon the streets, avenues, alleys or public thoroughfares of the City of Grayville, or who shall sell and deliver from any vehicle goods, wares, food items, or merchandise by going from place to place in the City of Grayville. The term shall include all hawkers, peddlers, itinerant merchants, and transient vendors of merchandise, as described in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-42-5. The term SOLICITOR shall also mean every person who moves from house to house or from place to place in the city, selling or taking orders for goods, wares, food items, subscriptions or merchandise for future delivery.
(2) The term SOLICITOR shall not include the following groups of persons.
(a) Farmers, fruit growers or gardeners who sell the produce of their farm, orchard, vineyard, from a stand.
(b) Sellers or deliverers of newspapers.
(c) Representatives of civic, patriotic, fraternal, educational or charitable organizations.
(d) Students attending schools in Grayville or within a 20-mile radius of Grayville, selling items for scholastic fundraising projects.
STAND. Any table, showcase, bench, rack, pushcart, wagon or any other wheeled vehicle or device which may be moved without the assistance of a motor and which is not required to be licensed and registered with the Secretary of State of Illinois.
(Ord. 720, passed 10-27-08; Am. Ord. 897, passed 11-9-20)