For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:
1. “Peddler” means any person carrying goods or merchandise or offering services who sells or offers for sale for immediate delivery such goods, merchandise, or services from house to house or upon the public street or right-of-way.
2. “Solicitor” means any person who solicits or attempts to solicit from house to house or upon the public street or right-of-way any contribution or donation or any order for goods, services, subscriptions, or merchandise to be delivered at a future date.
3. “Panhandler” means any solicitation made in person requesting an immediate donation of money or other thing of value. Purchase of an item for an amount far exceeding its value, under circumstances where a reasonable person would understand that the purchase is in substance a donation, is a donation for the purpose of this section. Panhandling does not include passively standing or sitting, without addressing any solicitation to any specific person.
(Subsection 3 – Ord. 23-01 – Oct. 23 Supp.)
4. “Transient merchant” means any person who engages in a temporary or itinerant merchandising business and in the course of such business hires, leases, or occupies any building or structure whatsoever, or who operates out of a vehicle which is parked anywhere within the City limits. Temporary association with a local merchant, dealer, trader or auctioneer, or conduct of such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local merchant, dealer, trader, or auctioneer does not exempt any person from being considered a transient merchant.