For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain works and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:
(a) “Hawker” shall mean a peddler who not only carries goods for sale but solicits purchasers by shouting or by attracting notice and attention to goods for sale by the actual exhibition or exposure of them, by placards or labels, by the sound of a horn, or by other means.
(b) “Peddler” shall mean a person who goes from house to house or from place to place seeking to make concurrent sales and deliveries of the goods, wares, and merchandise in which he deals.
(c) “Solicitor,” “drummer,” or “canvasser” shall mean a person who goes from place to place or from house to house taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person has a sample or whether or not he collects advance payments.
(d) “Telephone solicitor” shall mean a person who, by use of the telephone, solicits invitations from owners or occupants of private residents for the purpose of taking or attempting to take, or who takes or attempts to take, orders for the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person has a sample or whether or not he collects advance payments.
(e) “Transient merchant” or “itinerant merchant” shall mean a person who occupies a building or other place for the exhibition and sale of his goods or wares with the intention and determination to remain in business for a short period of time only, whether such period is a definite or indefinite one, or until a particular stock of merchandise is disposed of, or until the local market for the commodity handled by the dealer has been exhausted.
(§§ 2342 and 2342.1 through 2342.5, T.O.O.C., as added by Ord. 158)