For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CANVASSER. A person who is a representative of a non-profit organization or agency and as benefit to the agency or organization approaches persons, businesses or homes for the purpose of soliciting contributions or collecting signatures, distributing information or seeking volunteers. CANVASSERS also include persons engaged in non-commercial religious canvassing and persons engaged in the distribution of handbills and/or pamphlets, signed or unsigned, political or otherwise.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, church, religious sect or denomination, society, organization or league, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, agent or other similar representative.
SOLICITING MATERIAL. Printed or similar materials, including, but not limited to, the labels, posters, brochures, flyers, pamphlets, magazines, booklets, books and other like items used in the course of and for the purposes of soliciting.
SOLICITOR. Any person or commercial enterprise that travels by foot or automotive vehicle from place to place or from street to street or a person who hires, uses, or occupies any building, structure, room, shop, or any other place for the purpose of exhibiting samples or soliciting material, taking orders for future delivery, or those that carry, convey, or transport goods, wares and merchandise, including food products, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers, or taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, books or magazines, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished presently or performed in the future, whether or not such individual has, carries, or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether the subject is collecting advance payments on such sales or not. The term SOLICITOR shall include but not be limited to commercial vendors, canvassers, peddlers, and hawkers.
SOLICITS. The act of offering or attempting to offer wares, merchandise, services, items of personal property, real property, either for immediate or future delivery; or the act of seeking or attempting to seek contributions either in money or services for charitable or commercial purposes.
SPECIAL EVENT VENDOR. Any vendor, any solicitor or canvasser engaged in the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, including food products, or in the activities of a canvasser, while at a stationary or fixed location during a special event in the physical footprint of the special event, and shall be controlled and approved at the discretion of the special event director and is exempt from the requirements of this chapter.
TEMPORARY SPECIAL EVENT DIRECTOR. The person, entity, corporation, and/or organization that is sponsoring and/or conducting a temporary event and the holder of the permit to do so.
(Ord. 13.01, passed 9-11-17; Ord. 13.06, passed 8-28-23)