For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
ITINERANT VENDOR. Includes all persons, firms or corporations, as well as their agents and employees, who engage in the town in the temporary or transient business of selling or offering for sale any goods or merchandise, or in exhibiting the same for sale or for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business or conducting such exhibits thereof, either hire, rent, lease or occupy any room or space in any building, structure, other enclosure, vacant lot or any other property whatsoever in the town in, through or from which any goods or merchandise may be sold, offered for sale, exhibited for sale or exhibited for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof.
TEMPORARY. As used in the definition of “itinerant vendor” in this section, any such business transacted or conducted in the town for which definite arrangements have not been made for the hire, rental or lease of premises in or upon which such business is to be operated or conducted for at least 100 days.
TRANSIENT. As used in the definition of “itinerant vendor” in this section, any such business of any such itinerant vendor as may be operated or conducted by persons, firms or corporations, or by their agents or employees, who reside away from the town or who have fixed places of business in places other than the town, or who move stocks of goods or merchandise or samples thereof into the town with the purpose or intention of removing them, or the unsold portion thereof, away from the town before the expiration of 100 days.
(Prior Code, § 4-3-1)