For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and terms are defined:
"Group exhibit" means an association of five or more itinerant vendors under the auspices of a promoter, which association is formed for the purpose of simultaneously conducting the business of the itinerant vendors upon a common site or premises.
"Promoter" means the person responsible for conducting a group exhibit.
“Solicitor” means a person who goes from door to door visiting single-family or multi-family dwellings and businesses, or who is on the streets and parking lots of the city for the purpose of taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, services, subscriptions, or personal property of any nature. A solicitor may travel by foot, automobile, or any other type of conveyance. Solicitors may not travel door-to-door by commercial vehicle or semi-truck in any residential zone within the city.
"Temporary" means any such business transacted or conducted in the city for which definite arrangements have not been made for the hire, rental or lease of premises for at least thirty days in or upon which such business is to be operated or conducted.
"Transient" means such business of any itinerant vendor as may be operated or conducted by persons or by their agents or employees who have their headquarters in places other than the city, or who move stocks of goods or merchandise or samples thereof into the city with the purpose or intention of removing them or the unsold portion thereof away from the city before the expiration of thirty days.
"Transient merchant," "itinerant merchant," or "itinerant vendor" means any person, whether as owner, agent, consignee or employee and whether a resident of the city or not, who engages in a temporary or transient business of selling, offering for sale, delivering or offering to deliver goods, wares and merchandise, or exhibiting the same for sale, or exhibiting the same for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof within the city, and who, for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof and who for the purpose of carrying on such business or conducting such exhibits either hires, rents, leases or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, railroad box car, or enclosure in the city, or any room or space therein, or any other place whether enclosed or not including space upon any street, alley or other place within the city for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, merchandise, either privately or at public auction. (Ord. 516, 2013; Ord. 314 Exh. A (part), 1982: prior code § 24-2-1)