§ 2000. General words and phrases defined.  


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  • The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this chapter, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

    A.

    Outdoor seller means any person offering or exposing for retail sale, or making retail sales of, any goods, products, wares or merchandise or other personal property of any type, at any outdoor business location; provided, however, that this definition shall not include merchants who ordinarily and regularly offer such items for retail sale within permanent structures located on the same premises; provided further that this definition shall not include those sales commonly known as a garage sale, porch sale, backyard sale, patio sale, lawn sale, yard sale, attic sale, estate sale, moving sale or any similar sale of tangible personal property held out for sale to the public and conducted from or on any lot in a residential zoning district conducted by an individual who owns, leases or has the permission of the owner of the structure located on the same premises.

    B.

    Retail sale or sales means any sale or sales transactions of goods, products, wares, merchandise or other personal property, except as made by a person engaged in selling such personal property at wholesale to dealers in such property.

    C.

    Director shall mean the Director of Finance or such other person designated by the Mayor to enforce the provisions of this chapter or that person's designee.

(Ord. No. 18984)