For purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively.
(a) “Itinerant vendor” includes any person, natural or artificial, who engages in or conducts a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares, and merchandise within the Municipality with the intention of continuing in such business in any one location for a period of not more than four months and who for the purpose of carrying on such business hires, leases, or occupies in whole or in part any room, building, or structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise. The term does not apply to hawkers or peddlers; to vendors engaged in the sale of food or food products for human consumption; to commercial travelers or selling agents when making sales in the usual course of business; or the salesmen who sell by sample for future delivery.
(b) “Peddler” means one who sells tangible commodities from house to house, store to store, or on the streets or in any public place; his sales are not made from one established spot excepting where they are made in a street or other public place and he makes delivery at the time of the sale. Whether or not he collects at the same time is immaterial.
(c) “Solicitor” means any person who travels by any means from place to place, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods to be delivered in the future or for services to be performed in the future.