§ 8-148. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Peddler means any person who, as a business or vocation or both, travels from place to place, house to house, or street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers, or who without traveling from place to place sells or offers the same for sale from a wagon, automobile, truck, railroad car, airplane, boat or other vehicle or conveyance. The term "peddler" does not apply to any person selling products actually harvested from the person's own farm or orchard; nor shall the term "peddler" apply to vendors of newspapers upon the street.

Solicitor means any individual who, as or in connection with a business or vocation or both, travels from place to place, house to house, or street to street, taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not the person is collecting advance payments on such sales. The term "solicitor" includes any person who, for their self or for another, hires, leases, uses or occupies any place or premises or any railroad car, boat, wagon, automobile, truck, airplane or portion of any of them on a temporary basis for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.

(Prior Code, § 62.125; Code 2006, § 5.23.1)