§ 6-36-1. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

Goods, wares or merchandise means all variety of merchandise items, whether handmade or manufactured, or services, whether personal or professional categorized as, but not necessarily limited to, souvenirs, gifts, prizes, art/school supplies, cloth, clothing or wearing apparel, novelties, small appliances, works of art or crafts, directional information and/or charts, street photographers, tools or mechanical devices of any nature.

Itinerant vendor/peddler shall encompass the terms "peddler," "solicitor," "canvasser," "foot peddler" and "hawker," and means all persons who engage in the giving away, the selling or offering for sale of goods, wares or merchandise, or who solicit patronage for any person, business or service by word of mouth or gesture, or by distributing handbills or other printed matter, or by use of electrical, mechanical or sound-making devices, to entice or persuade anyone to buy, sell or accept goods, wares or merchandise upon the public streets, highways or rights-of-way within the corporate limits of the city, where such itinerant vendor/peddler engages in the above-mentioned activities from a temporary or transient location.

Open-air market or farmers' markets means public property open to the resort of the general public as purchasers, as well as for persons who offer wares for sale, and where stalls, stands or space is allotted on payment of fixed rents or fees.

Public designated square means an open space set aside for public passage, use, recreation or ornamentation, in the nature of a park.

(Code 1967, § 40-30; Code 1985, § 17-16; Ord. No. 2805, § 1, 12-5-1978)