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The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:

A. "Certificate" means the issuance of a business tax certificate for payment of a business tax as provided by Chapter 6.01.

B. "Peddler" includes any person traveling or not traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares and merchandise, and personal property of any nature and offering and exposing for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers or prospective purchasers. "Peddler" also includes the common definitions of hawker and huckster.

C. "Permit" means a permit granted and issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

D. "Solicitor" means any person traveling or not traveling either by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, taking or attempting to take orders for sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and personal property of any nature for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether such person is collecting advance payments of such sales or not. This definition includes any person, who, for himself or for any other person, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, railroad car, boat, hotel room, lodginghouse, apartment, shop or any other place within the city for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery for less than one hundred twenty days.

E. "Itinerant photographer" means and includes all persons, both principal and agent, who engage in a temporary or transient business in the city of selling photographs or taking, soliciting or securing orders for photographs with the intention of continuing such business in the city for a period of not more than one hundred twenty days, and who for the purpose of carrying on such business hires, leases or occupies any room, building or structure for the taking of such photographs. The person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this chapter by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader or merchant, or by conducting such temporary or transient business in connection with, or as part of, or in the name of any local dealer, trader or merchant.

F. "Itinerant vendor" means and includes all persons, both principal and agent, who engage in a temporary or transient business in the city of selling goods, wares or merchandise, or taking, soliciting or securing orders therefor with the intention of continuing such business in the city for a period of not more than one hundred twenty days, and who for the purpose of carrying on such business hires, leases or occupies any room, building or structure for the exhibition or sale of such goods, wares or merchandise. The person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this chapter by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader or merchant, or by conducting such temporary or transient business in connection with, or as part of, or in the name of any local dealer, trader or merchant. The term "itinerant vendor" shall not apply to peddlers or solicitors as defined above.

G. "Junk dealer" shall mean any person not having a fixed place of business within the city, who buys or sells, either at wholesale or retail, any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals or other articles of junk.

(Ord. 1921 NCS §3 (part), 1993; Ord. 377 NCS §1.2-1.5; prior code §20.1.)