§ 20-2. Definitions.

(a)

For the purposes of this article, an "itinerant merchant" or an "itinerant vendor" is any person or agent or employee of the person who goes from house to house or from place to place in the city soliciting, selling or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for any personal property, goods, wares, merchandise, services, photographs or magazines, or who engages in a temporary business of selling, offering to sell, exhibiting and/or delivering any personal property, goods, wares, merchandise, or services, or who conducts meetings open to the general public where franchises, distributorships, contracts or business opportunities are offered to participants. An "itinerant merchant" or an "itinerant vendor" also means any person or agent or employee of the person who displays, exhibits, sells or offers for sale any personal property, goods, merchandise, service upon or from a truck, a cart, or other vehicle on non-residential property located in the city, or who hires, rents, leases or occupies an area in any lot, structure, enclosure, or any other property in the city that does not require a certificate of occupancy through or from which any goods or merchandise may be sold, offered for sale, exhibited for sale or exhibited for the purpose of taking orders for the sale thereof.

(b)

"Moral turpitude" shall mean an act or behavior that violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community, or a quality of dishonesty or other immorality that is determined by a court to be present in the commission of a criminal offense. Moral turpitude offenses include, but are not limited to, sexual assault of a child, lying to a police officer, mail fraud, tax evasion, prostitution, purchase of a child, indecent exposure, failure to stop and render aid, theft, aggravated assault, assault by a male on a female, communicating a false alarm, murder and indecent exposure, and bank fraud.

(Ord. No. 2011-13, § 1, 8-2-2011)