For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:
1. “Peddler” means any person who travels within the City or has a temporary location in the City for the conduct of his or her business and who has no permanent place of business in the City, but offers or exposes for sale goods, wares or merchandise, or who makes sales and delivers articles to purchasers.
2. “Solicitor” means any person who travels within the City, or has a temporary location for the conduct of his or her business, who solicits or takes or attempts to take orders for sale or purchase of goods, wares or merchandise, including magazines, books, periodicals, real or personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be performed or for the donation of money or financial assistance, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject or such order or whether or not he or she is collecting advance payment on such orders. Such definition includes, but is not limited to, any person who, for himself or herself, or for another person, firm or corporation, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, motor vehicle, trailer, structure, tent, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or other place within the City for the primary purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
3. “Transient merchant” includes any person, firm or corporation, whether as owner, agent or consignee, who engages in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares, property, services and merchandise within said City, and who, in furtherance of said purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, trailer, tent, hotel, motel, or lodging house room, apartment, shop, street, alley, or other place within the City, for the exhibition or sale of such goods, wares, services and merchandise, either privately or at public auction. The person, firm or corporation so engaged is not relieved from complying with the provisions of this chapter by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, traders, merchant or auctioneer; provided, however, that if all sales made by such person, firm or corporation of goods, wares, merchandise or services shall be reported for sales tax collection purposes as made by such local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer, and all monies derived from such sales shall be collected by such local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer, then such transient merchant shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Only one such transient business shall be allowed to associate temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer as a part of or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer at any one time. A resident of the City conducting a yard sale is not considered to be a transient merchant until he or she has conducted such sale for a total of four (4) days within one calendar year. After conduct of such sales for four (4) days in any one calendar year, the person conducting said sale shall be considered to be a transient merchant.
4. "Seasonal transient merchant" shall comply with all of the requirements of a transient merchant and shall occupy the same site for a minimum period of 31 consecutive days.
(Ord. 654 - Oct. 04 Supp.)
5. "Mobile food unit" means any type of food or beverage establishment that is readily movable, which either operates up to three consecutive days at one location or returns to a home base of operation at the end of each day, as defined by Iowa Code Ch. 137F.1(11).
(Ord. 1029 - Dec. 23 Supp.)