For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Canvasser" means any person who seeks to disseminate any lawful message by means of traveling from place to place without soliciting funds or donations.
(b) "Charitable" includes the words patriotic, philanthropic, social service, welfare, eleemosynary, benevolent, educational, civic, fraternal, veteran's medical and social research, either actual or purported.
(c) "Peddler" means any person who carries with him or her for the purpose of sale at retail and immediate or future deliveiy, goods, wares, food or merchandise, or any person who in person as principal or agent canvasses, sells or otherwise obtains orders or commitments for the sale, repair or exchange of goods, wares, food or merchandise, or services, where sales of such goods, wares, food, merchandise, or services are not made from one established spot excepting where they are made in a street or other public place and deliveiy is made at the time of the sale.
(d) "Religious" or "religion" shall not include the word charitable, but shall be given their commonly accepted definitions.
(e) "Solicitor" means any person who obtains or seeks to obtain funds for any cause whatsoever by means of canvassing from place to place.
(Ord. 05-01-14. Passed 5-12-14.)