When used in this article, "itinerant vendor" includes all persons who engage or conduct within the City, either in one locality, or in traveling from place to place, a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise; and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, use, lease or occupy either in whole or in part, a room, building or other structure, or who use, lease or occupy for such purposes a room or rooms in any hotel or lodging house for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise.
Itinerant Vendors as used in this article also describes retail sales, services, etc. habitually traveling from place to place, traveling around a region working for short periods of time, not operating out of the permanent brick and mortar location of such business. Types of such itinerant vendors include but are not limited to: coin/ jewelry/ estates purchasing pawn shop like entities; merchandise sales related to sports, campaigns, special event type memorabilia/ t-shirts/ hats etc.; fireworks etc.
The person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this article by reason of association temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer, or by conducting such temporary or transient business in connection with or as part of the business of, or in the name of, any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer. The provisions of this article shall not apply to sales made to persons by commercial travelers, or selling agents in the usual course of business, nor to bona-fide sales of goods, wares or merchandise by sample for future delivery; nor to hawkers or peddlers in the streets, roads or highways, from packs or vehicles; nor to persons selling meat or the products of the farm, garden or dairy, nor to any sales of goods, wares or merchandise on the grounds of any agricultural association during the continuance of any annual fair held by such association; nor to any sales by societies acting for charitable, religious or benevolent purposes; nor to judicial sales directed by law, or under the orders of any court; nor to the sales of the common necessities of life in any public market place. (Ord. 15708. Passed 5-17-22.)