As used in this Chapter, certain terms are deemed as follows:
(a) "Itinerant vendor" or "hawker" means any person, natural or artificial, who engages in or conducts a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise within the County, but does not intend to continue in such business in any one location for 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.
(b) "Peddler" means any person who sells, offers for sale, barters or exchanges any goods, wares, produce, merchandise or other articles of value at any place in, upon, along or through the streets, alleys or other public ways or places of the County or from house to house.
(c) "Solicitor" means any person who, without prior request, or without being invited to do so by the owner or occupant of a private residence, attempts to sell or solicit orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise or other articles of value, including magazines, periodicals or books to be delivered at a later time.
(d) "Canvassing" or "canvasser" means any adult person who calls at residences without the invitation or previous consent of the owner or occupant of such premise, seeking to obtain from an occupant of any residence an indication of such occupant's belief in regard to any social, political or religious matter.
(e) "Person" means any adult individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock company, church, religious sect, religious denomination, society, organization or league, or any combination thereof, and includes any trustee, member, receiver, assignee, agent or other representative thereof.
(f) "Religious organization" means any church, body of communicants or group that is not organized or operated for profit that gathers in common membership for regular worship and religious observances.
(g) "Residence" means every separate living unit occupied for residential purposes by one or more persons, contained within any type of building or structure.
(Ord. 2005-559. Adopted 11-21-05.)