For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CANVASSER or SOLICITOR. Any person, corporate or individual, or firm, whether resident of the town or not, who travels, or whose agents travel, either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, from street to street or business to business, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, edible foodstuffs, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether collecting advance payments on sales or not. This definition shall include any person or firm who, for himself or itself, or for another person or firm, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad boxcar, boat, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or any other place within the town for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
PEDDLER. Any person, individual or corporate, or firm, whether a resident of the town or not, who travels, or whose agents travel, by foot, wagon, automobile or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, from street to street or business to business, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, edible foodstuffs or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers or who, without traveling from place to place, shall sell or offer the same from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car or other conveyance, and further provided, that persons or firms who solicit orders and as a separate transaction make delivery to purchasers as a part of the scheme of design to evade the provisions herein contained. The word PEDDLER shall include the words “hawker” and “huckster.”
TRANSIENT MERCHANT, ITINERANT MERCHANT or ITINERANT VENDOR. Any person, corporate or individual, or firm, whether owner or otherwise, whether a resident of the town or not, who engages, or whose agents engage, in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares, merchandise, edible foodstuffs or provisions, within the town, and who in furtherance of that purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, railroad boxcar, boat, public room in a hotel, lodging house, apartment, shop, or any street, alley or other place within the town for the exhibition and sale of goods, wares, merchandise and edible foodstuffs, either privately or at public auction. The person or firm so engaged shall not be relieved from complying with the provisions of this chapter merely by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer, or by conducting transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer.
(`82 Code, § 8-3-2)