For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates, or requires, a different meaning.
TRANSIENT MERCHANT. All persons, firms, and corporations, both as principals and agents, who engage in, do, or transact any temporary or transient business in this state, either in one locality or in traveling from place to place, offering for sale or selling goods, wares, or merchandise, and those who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease, or occupy any permanent or mobile building, structure, or real estate for the exhibition by means of samples, catalogues, photographs, and price lists or sale of such goods, wares, or merchandise.
(Prior Code, § II.5)