§ 11-216. 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:

Hawker means all persons who shall sell or offer to sell at wholesale or retail any goods, wares, or merchandise from a stand, wagon, motor vehicle, pushcart, or upon any street or upon any public or vacant ground within the corporate limits of the city.

Peddler means all persons, except hawkers, who travel from place to place or from house to house selling or offering to sell any goods, wares, or merchandise within the corporate limits of the city, except in the regular line of merchandising by actual bona fide merchants having a regular and fixed place of business within such city.

Retailer means any person who sells to the consumer.

Transient retail merchant means every person acting for himself or representing any other person, who brings into temporary premises, in this city, any goods, wares, notions, or articles of merchandise or trade of any character, and who solicits, sells, or offers to sell or exhibits for sale, any such goods, wares, notions or articles of merchandise or trade, at retail or at auction.

Wholesaler means any person who sells to a retailer.

(Code 1959, §§ 18-1, 18-9, 18-10)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.