§ 110.15. Definitions.

For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

Business includes each trade, occupation, profession, business and franchise taxed under this article. A business is seasonal in nature when it is conducted for profit six months out of the year or less.

Flea market operator means a person who rents space, at a location other than a permanent retail store, to others for the purpose of selling goods at retail or offering goods for sale at retail.

Flea market vendor means a merchant, other than a merchant with an established retail store in the county, who transports an inventory of goods to a flea market licensed under this chapter and who, at that location, displays the goods for sale and sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail.

Itinerant merchant means a merchant, other than a merchant with an established retail store in the town, who transports an inventory of goods to a building, vacant lot or other location in the town, and who, at that location, displays the goods for sale and sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail. A merchant who sells goods, other than farm products, in the town for less than six consecutive months is considered an itinerant merchant unless he or she stops selling goods in the town because of his or her death or his or her disablement, the insolvency of his or her business, or destruction of his or her inventory by fire or other catastrophe.

Peddler means a person who travels from place to place with an inventory of goods, who sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail, and who delivers the identical goods he or she carries with him or her.

(1992 Code, § 11-26; Ord. passed 6-27-1988)