The words
ITINERANT VENDORS for the purpose of this subchapter shall be construed to mean and include all persons, either by themselves or by their agents, who engage in a temporary or transient business in the town or in traveling from place to place therein, selling goods, wares and merchandise,
and for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease or occupy any building or structure for the exhibition or sale of such goods, wares and merchandise; and no such itinerant vendor shall be exempt from the provisions of this subchapter by reason of associating himself temporarily with any local dealer, trader or auctioneer, or by continuing such temporary or transient business in connection with or as a part of the business of, or in the name of, any local dealer, trader or auctioneer; provided, however, if such transient trader shall have carried on such business for two previous seasons and shall continue to carry on and conduct such business until such time as he shall be assessed upon the regular tax rolls of this town for such goods, wares and merchandise and shall pay the regular town tax thereon, he or it shall no longer be deemed an itinerant vendor and subject to the provisions of this subchapter; provided, further, that this subchapter shall not apply to sales made to dealers by commercial travelers or selling agents in the usual course of business or to the bona fide sales of goods, wares and merchandise by sample and future deliveries, or to hawkers on the streets, or to peddlers from vehicles, or to sheriffs, constables or public officers of the state or town selling goods, wares and merchandise according to law, or to bona fide assignees, for the benefit of creditors residing within this state, or to receivers appointed in the state, selling goods, wares and merchandise in the state.
('73 Code, § 12A-1) (Ord. passed 6-2-75)