Definitions as used in this article shall have the following meanings indicated. Words used in the singular shall include the plural, and the plural the singular; and the words used in the present tense shall include the future. The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary. The word "may" is permissive.
(a) "Transient retail business" means one conducted in a fixed location such as, but not limited to, a store, hotel, motel, building, shopping center, tent, lot, parking lot, truck, tractor-trailer, or structure for the retail or discount sale of goods, wares, merchandise, food products, etc., which business is intended to be conducted for a temporary period of time and not permanently. If the place in which a business is conducted is rented or leased for a period of ninety days or less, such fact shall be evidence that the business named or carried on therein is a "transient business." Transient retail businesses shall be restricted to commercially zoned areas unless provided for otherwise.
(b) "Transient merchant" means any person, persons, partnership or joint stock company, company, corporation, firm, association, society or individual who engages or proposes to engage in a transient retail business.
(c) "Transient merchant agent" For purpose of this article, means the owner or representative thereof of the site where the transient retail business is to be conducted.
(d) "Month" for the purposes of this article means thirty days.
(Ord. 2774. Passed 10-19-87.)