For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PEDDLER OR SOLICITOR. Any person, partnership, firm or corporation going from house to house or from place to place in the city soliciting, exhibiting, selling, canvassing for or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for any goods, wares, merchandise, and subscriptions to magazines, publications, newspapers, photographs or services. The same shall also include any person, partnership, firm or corporations soliciting, exhibiting, selling, taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for the goods, wares, merchandise, publications or services upon or from a truck or other vehicle whether or the streets or from any property whatever in the city, whether public or private. Also anyone who solicits orders and, as a separate transaction, makes deliveries to purchasers as a part of a scheme or design to evade these provisions shall be deemed a peddler or solicitor. The terms PEDDLER OR SOLICITOR shall also be synonymous with itinerant merchant and transient vendor, as well as each other.
(Ord. passed 7-17-90; Am. Ord. 23-108, passed 10-24-23)