§ 56-4.206. Solicitor defined.  


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  • "Solicitor," as used in this chapter, means and includes any person who travels either by foot or by any type of conveyance from door to door, house to house, place to place or street to street, taking or attempting to take subscriptions, contracts of sale, or orders for the sale of foods, goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property of any nature whatever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether he collects advance payments on such sales or not. "Solicitor" includes any person who uses or occupies any building, structure, room, shop, conveyance or other place other than a permanent store building within the county for the purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery. "Solicitor" includes "itinerant merchants," and persons soliciting funds or otherwise peddling or soliciting for religious, political or charitable purposes.

(Ord. 1961: prior code § 6221(c): Ord. 1399).