For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BUSINESS. The business carried on by any person who is an itinerant merchant, peddler or solicitor as defined in this section.
GOODS. Merchandise of any description whatsoever, and includes, but is not restricted to, wares and foodstuffs.
PEDDLER.
(1) Any person who travels from place to place by any means carrying goods for sale, making sales or making deliveries;
(2) Any person who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers goods for sale from any public place within the city; or
(3) A person who is a
PEDDLER is not an “itinerant merchant.”
SOLICITOR. Any person who travels by any means from place to place, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods to be delivered in the future or for services to be performed in the future. A person who is a SOLICITOR is not a “peddler.”
TRANSIENT MERCHANT. Any person who offers services, products, goods or other materials, whether at retail, wholesale or otherwise where the legal entity offering to sell or provide a service does not by affirmative action indicate an intent to remain in business on a continuous basis for at least one year within the city limits. If the applicant does not have a permanent facility from which to operate the business for which he or she makes application for license, then and in that event, there shall be a presumption that the applicant is a TRANSIENT MERCHANT.
(Prior Code, § 111.01)