The annual license fee to carry on the business of an itinerant vendor shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00) or daily license fee of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50).
When used in this section, "itinerant vendor" means all persons who engage or conduct within this City, either in one locality or in traveling from place to place, a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise; and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, use, lease or occupy, either in whole or in part, a room, building or other structure, or who use, lease or occupy for such purposes a room in any hotel, motel or other structure, for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise; and the person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this division by reason of association temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer, or by conducting such temporary or transient business in connection with or as part of the business of, or in the name of, any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to any special sale nor to persons conducting special sales within the purview of any other provisions of this article; nor to sales made to persons engaged in wholesale or retail business by commercial travelers or selling agents in the usual course of business; nor to hawkers or peddlers in the streets, roads or highways, from packs or vehicles as defined in this section; nor to persons selling meat or the products of farm, garden or dairy; nor to any sales of goods, wares or merchandise on the grounds of any agricultural association during the continuance of any annual fair held by such association; nor to any sales by societies acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes; nor to judicial sales directed by law or under the orders of any court; nor to the sales of common necessities of life in any public marketplace.
(Ord. 86-7. Passed 6-30-86.)