§ 16-226. Definitions.

As used in this article the following words and phrases shall have the definitions ascribed to them by this section:

Canvasser. The term "canvasser" includes "solicitor" and any person who makes retail sales for future delivery of tangible property from house to house or in any public place, whether or not payment is collected at the time of such sale, and such sales are taxable transactions under the provisions of the limited sales, excise and use tax of the state.

Peddler shall include the term "hawker" and shall mean any person who makes retail sales of tangible property from house to house or in any public place, and such sales are not made from an established place and delivery is made at the time of sale, whether or not payment is collected at the time of such sale.

Public place shall mean, for purposes of Article IX, a place to which the general public has a right to resort and is not prohibited by section 19-8 of the City Code, but does not include streets, traffic medians, shoulders and improved shoulders.

Real property shall mean any lot, tract, parcel, or section of land and shall include whatever is erected, growing upon, or affixed to the land; but shall not mean nor include the interior of a permanent commercial structure if such structure is used simultaneously for a business purpose for which a certificate of occupancy has been issued and is in effect.

Retail sale shall mean any sale other than a sale of tangible property to any purchaser who is purchasing the tangible property for the purpose of reselling it in the normal course of business either in the form or condition in which it is purchased or as an attachment to or as an integral part of other tangible property.

Tangible property shall mean property which may be seen, weighed, measured, felt or touched or which is in any other manner perceptible to the senses.

(Code 1959, § 28-1; Ord. No. 51213, 2, 9-6-79; Ord. No. 66193, § 1, 12-3-87; Ord. No. 71697, §§ 1, 2, 6-7-90; Ord. No. 88723, § 1, 10-22-98)