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The provisions of CVMC Title 5 and CVMC 8.20.020 and 9.13.030, except as specifically noted, are enacted to raise revenue for municipal purposes. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

A. Average number of employees” means, for the purpose of determining the average number of employees employed during the year, that the number of Persons employed at or near the fifteenth day of each month during the year in which business is transacted within the City shall be added together, and the sum total shall be divided by the number of months or fractions of months such business was in operation, fractions omitted.

B. Business” includes every pursuit, trade, occupation, avocation, employment, business or calling.

C. Employee” is defined as any Person acting within the scope of the employer’s business within the limits of the City.

D. Established place of business” is the place actually occupied either continuously or at regular periods by any Person required to be licensed pursuant to this chapter and where such Person’s books and records are kept and a large share of his business transacted.

E. Occasional sale and delivery” is defined as those trips or deliveries beginning or ending at points within the City occurring not more than once in any given quarter during the calendar year.

F. Peddler” includes any Person, whether a resident of the City or not, who goes from house to house or from place to place conveying goods, wares or merchandise, or offering the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers. It does not include vendors of milk, bakery products, produce, groceries, ice cream or ice, who distribute their products to regular customers on established routes.

G. Rental Business. An Owner will be deemed to be engaged in “rental business” if he holds out for Rent or lease three or more residential units located on one parcel or on contiguous parcels of land.

H. Retail business” or “retail sales” is deemed to include all sales of goods, wares, merchandise or services to a consumer.

I. Solicitor” includes any Person, whether a resident of the City or not, who goes from house to house or from place to place soliciting or taking orders for sales of goods, wares or merchandise, Personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for service to be performed in the future, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such order or whether he is collecting advance payments on such orders; or who solicits, takes or attempts to take public opinion polls, consumer surveys or by such contracts attempts to secure similar information. Such definition includes any Person who uses any building, motor vehicle or other place within the City for the primary purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery, or one who, as an invitee of a purchaser or prospective purchaser or otherwise, solicits a sale or who exhibits any sample or gives a demonstration or makes a delivery within this City after a purchaser or prospective purchaser has been solicited or contacted by telephone, correspondence or other method of communication from within the City. Such definition includes the term “canvasser”; provided, however, that said definition does not include insurance salesmen who are, by law, exempt from licensing requirements.

J. Transient merchant” includes any Person, 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 purposes, leases, uses or occupies any building, motor vehicle, public room in a hotel, or shop or other place within this City for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise, either privately or at public auction; provided, however, 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 for the purpose of securing orders for future delivery only. The Person so engaged is not relieved from complying with the provisions of this chapter merely by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, merchant or auctioneer, or by conducting such transient business in connection with, as a part of, or in the name of any local dealer, merchant or auctioneer.

K. Wholesale business” or “wholesale sales” is deemed to include all sales of goods, wares, merchandise or services to a retailer.

L. Vending vehicle” means a vehicle from which any goods, other than foodstuffs, are sold, given away, displayed or offered for sale at retail.

M. Out-of-City delivery vehicle” includes all vehicles entering the City to deliver merchandise purchased outside of the City to a location within the City more frequently than once per quarter per year. (Ord. 2537 § 1, 1992; Ord. 1801 § 1, 1978; Ord. 1293 § 1; Ord. 1243 § 1; prior code § 18.1).