As used in this Chapter, the transient merchant licensing law:
ITINERANT MERCHANT: Any person who sells, or offers to sell, in this State, at wholesale or retail, any personal property and transports the same on any highway in this State by the use of a motor vehicle.
PERSON: Any individual, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity.
TEMPORARY OR TRANSIENT BUSINESS: Any business or home improvement service; siding, roofing or resurfacing services, conducted for the sale or offer for sale of goods, wares or merchandise which is carried on in any building, structure, motor vehicle, mobile home, travel trailer, railroad car or real estate for a period of less than two (2) years.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT: Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or other entity which engages in, does or transacts any temporary or transient business in this State, either in one locality or in traveling from place to place in this State, offering for sale or selling goods, wares, merchandise or services, and includes those merchants who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease, use or occupy any building, structure, motor vehicle, railroad car or real estate. (1988 Code § 9-201; amd. 2000 Code)