For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
ITINERANT VENDOR: Means and includes all persons, firms or corporations, as well as their agents and employees, who engage in the temporary or transient business in the city of selling or offering for sale any goods or merchandise, or exhibiting the same for sale or exhibiting the same for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business or conducting such exhibits thereof, either hire, rent, lease or occupy any room or space in any building, structure, other enclosure, vacant lot or any other property whatever in the city in, through, or from which any goods or merchandise may be sold, offered for sale, exhibited for sale or exhibited for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof.
TEMPORARY: As used in the definition of "itinerant vendor" in this section, 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 one hundred (100) days, in or upon which such business is to be operated or conducted.
TRANSIENT: As used in the definition of "itinerant vendor" in this section, means any such business of any such itinerant vendor as may be operated or conducted by persons, firms or corporations, or by their agents or employees who reside away from the city or who have fixed places of business 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 one hundred (100) days. (1987 Code § 9-201)