For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PEDDLER. Any natural person, whether a resident of the city or not, or any firm, partnership, corporation or other business entity, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, magazines, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale or rent or making sales or rentals and delivering articles to purchasers or renters, or who without traveling from place to place shall sell or rent or offer the same for sale or rent or offer the same for sale or rent from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car, or other vehicle or conveyance, and further provided that one who solicits orders as a separate transaction, makes deliveries to purchasers or renters as a part of a scheme or design to evade the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a peddler subject to the provisions of this chapter. The term shall include the words “hawker” and “huckster.”
(Ord. passed 5-9-1994)