For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
SOLICITOR. Any individual, whether a resident of the city or not, traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck or any other type of conveyance from place to place, from house to house or from street to street, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, books or magazines, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished 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 he or she is collecting advance payments on such sales or not and such definition shall include any person, who, for himself or herself, or for another person, hires, leases or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad box car, boat, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or any other place within the city for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery. The word SOLICITOR shall include the word “canvasser”.
(1979 Code, § 7.81)