753.01 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the words and phrases defined in the sections hereunder shall have the meanings therein respectively ascribed to them, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context.

   (a)    "Peddler" means any person traveling from door-to-door selling, or offering to sell or barter, or taking or attempting to take orders of, any goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property of any nature whatsoever, for present or future delivery, or any services to be furnished or performed in the future.

   (b)    "Solicitor" means any person traveling from door-to-door seeking to obtain funds for any cause whatsoever.

   (c)    "Itinerant vendor" or "transient dealer" means any person, either principal or agent, who engages in or conducts in this City a temporary or transient business of goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property of any nature whatsoever, with the intention of continuing in such business for period of not more than 120 days and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hires, leases or occupies either in whole or in part a room, building or other structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property.

   (d)    "Canvasser" means any person who seeks to disseminate any lawful message by means of traveling from door-to-door, without soliciting funds or donations.

      (Ord. 2016-4-24. Passed 4-13-16.)