In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Advertisement means the attempt by publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation, oral or written, to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in any merchandise, or engage in any sale at a swap meet.
(2) Director means the city finance director or his designated agents.
(3) Employee means a person employed by a proprietor, from whose wages the proprietor withholds amounts pursuant to the withholding provisions of state or federal income tax laws, or a person or an employee of a firm with whom the proprietor has entered into a written contract of more than thirty (30) days' duration for the provision of maintenance, cleaning or security services.
(4) Merchandise means any new or used objects, wares, goods, commodities, personalty, and intangibles, real estate, amusements, food concessions, or services.
(5) Person means any natural person or his legal representative, partnership, domestic or foreign corporation, any company, trust, business entity, or association, any agent, employee, salesperson, partner, officer, director, member, stockholder, associate or trustee.
(6) Premises means any building, structure, lot or other area at which a swap meet sale is conducted.
(7) Proprietor means any person who rents, sells, donates or otherwise makes available to swap meet vendors any space within premises owned or controlled by the proprietor for the purpose of a swap meet sale.
(8) Proprietor license means a current and valid license issued by the city to the proprietor authorizing the use of the premises owned or controlled by the proprietor, as specified on the proprietor license, for the purpose of a swap meet sale.
(9) Proprietor occupational license tax means those monthly sums payable to the city by the proprietor, pursuant to chapter 19 of the Tucson Code.
(10) Sale means any sale, offer for sale, or attempt to sell any merchandise, including any exchange, offer for exchange, or attempt to exchange or barter any merchandise at a swap meet.
(11) Swap meet means a place of commercial activity, popularly known as a swap meet, flea market, park-and-swap, which is:
(a) Open to the general public for the purchase of merchandise on the premises;
(b) Available to the general public who wish to sell merchandise on the premises, whether such sellers or vendors are in the business of vending or are making causal sales or some combination thereof;
(c) Composed of stalls, stands or spaces allotted to vendors, at least one (1) of whom does not occupy the same allotted space or spaces on an uninterrupted continuous daily basis.
(12) Vendor means any person upon the premises for the purpose of causing the advertisement of or making a sale at a swap meet.
(Ord. No. 5380, § 2, 6-1-81; Ord. No. 5840, § 1, 8-1-83)