§ 22-251. 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:

Downtown area shall mean the area of the city defined by the following boundaries: the northern right-of-way line of Flagler Memorial Bridge, Loftin Road and North Quadrille Boulevard, continuing along the F.E.C. railroad to 3rd Street to the north; the southern right-of-way line of Okeechobee Boulevard to the south; the eastern right-of-way line of Flagler Drive to the east; the western right-of-way line of Australian Avenue to the west.

Peddler means any person, whether a resident of the city or not, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, 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, wares, merchandise, food, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing such articles for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers, or who, without traveling from place to place, shall sell or offer the articles for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car, or other vehicle or conveyance; provided that one who solicits orders and, as a separate transaction, makes deliveries to purchasers as a part of a scheme or design to evade the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a "peddler" subject to the provisions of this chapter. The term "peddler" shall also mean the same as the term "hawker" or the term "huckster." The term "peddler" shall include transient merchant, itinerant merchant, itinerant vendor or any person, whether as owner, agent, consignee or employee, whether a resident of the city or not, who engages in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods, wares and merchandise within the city, and who, in furtherance of such purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, motor vehicle, tent, railroad boxcar, boat, public room in any hotel, lodginghouse, apartment, shop or any street, alley or other place within the city for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise, either privately or at public auction; provided that such definition shall not be construed to include any person who, while occupying such temporary location, does not sell from stock, but exhibits samples only for the purpose of securing orders for future delivery only. The person so engaged shall not be relieved from complying with the provisions of this article merely by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer or by conducting such transient business in connection with, as a part of or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer.

(Code 1979, §§ 18-283, 18-421; Ord. No. 4112-08, § 1, 11-3-2008)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.