§ 5.16.010. Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter the words and phrases used herein shall have the following meaning unless the context shows a different meaning:

Business.

The term "business" shall mean and include any type of product, good, service, performance or activity which is provided or performed, or offered to be provided or performed, in exchange for money, labor, goods or any other form of consideration.

Commercial parking area. The term "commercial parking area" shall mean privately owned property which is designed or used primarily for the parking of vehicles and which adjoins one or more commercial establishments.

Employment. The term "employment" shall mean and include services, industry or labor performed by a person for wages or other compensation or under any contract of hire, written, oral, express or implied.

Peddler. The term "peddler" shall mean any person, other than a sidewalk vendor, whether a resident of the city or not, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, 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, shall sell or offer the same for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad boxcar or other vehicles or conveyance. The word "peddler" shall include the words "hawker" and "hucksters."

Peddling. The term "peddling" shall mean acting as a peddler.

Soliciting. The term "soliciting" shall mean acting as a solicitor or canvasser.

Solicitor, canvasser. The terms "solicitor" or "canvasser" shall mean any individual, other than a sidewalk vendor, whether a resident of the city or not, traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck 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 or personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether he is collecting advance payments on such sales or not, provided that such definition also includes any person who, for himself, or for another person, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, tent, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop, wagon automobile vehicle, railroad boxcar, or any other place within the city for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking order for future delivery. Further, "solicitor" or "canvasser" shall mean and include any person other than a sidewalk vendor who requests, offers, entices or exhibits actions which announces the availability for or of employment, the sale of goods, or a request for money or other property; or any request, offer, enticement or action which seeks to purchase or secure goods or employment, or to make a contribution of money or other property. As defined herein, a solicitation shall be deemed complete when made whether or not an actual employment relationship is created, a transaction is completed, or an exchange of money or other property takes place.

(Ord. 733 (part), 1997)

(Ord. No. 887 , § 1, 11-13-2018)