For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PEDDLER. Any person who goes from place to place selling or offering for sale goods, wares, merchandise and all kinds of property, traveling on foot or in vehicles and selling from house to house or by crying his or her wares from the street. This shall include any individual taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, books or magazines, insurance policies of any kind, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future. The term shall include “street vendors”, “hawkers” and “hucksters”.
PEDDLING. Going from place to place selling or offering for sale goods, wares, merchandise and all kinds of property, traveling on foot or in vehicles and selling from house to house or by crying his or her wares from the street. This shall include taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, books or magazines, insurance policies of any kind, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future.
SOLICITATION. 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 for the purpose of soliciting funds or pledges.
SOLICITOR. Any individual, group, association or non-profit corporation, whether a resident of the township 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 for the purpose of soliciting funds or pledges.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT. Any person, firm or corporation engaged temporarily in a retail sale of goods, wares or merchandise, excluding the sale of Christmas trees, in any place in the township and who, for the purpose of conducting the business, occupies or uses any lot, building, room, structure or any kind of vehicle. The terms shall include:
(1) Itinerant merchants;
(2) Itinerant vendors;
(3) Persons, firms or corporations who shall be engaged in selling goods, wares or merchandise at retail in this township and who are not on the tax rolls of this township;
(4) Any person, firm or corporation who commences a business of selling goods, wares and merchandise at retail within this township after January 1 in any year and who is not assessed on the tax roll for the year. The person, firm or corporation 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 the transient business in connection with, as a part of or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer; and
(5) TRANSIENT MERCHANT shall not include any produce merchants to whom a food handler’s license shall have been issued.
(Prior Code, § IV-5.00)