§ 18-201. Definitions.

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

Charitable organization means any benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, or eleemosynary person, partnership, association or corporation, or one purporting to be such.

Clerk means the village clerk.

Merchandise means personal property of any kind, and shall include merchandise, goods, or materials provided incidental to services offered or sold. The sale of merchandise includes donations required by the seller for the retention of goods by a donor or prospective customer.

Permanent merchant means any person who, for at least one year prior to the consideration of the application of this article to such merchant has continuously operated an established place of business in the local trade area among the communities bordering the place of sale or has continuously resided in the local trade area among the communities bordering the place of sale and now does business from his residence.

Transient merchant means any individual who engages in the retail sale of merchandise at any place in this state temporarily, and who does not intend to become and does not become a permanent merchant of such place. For purposes of this section, sale of merchandise includes a sale in which the personal services rendered upon or in connection with the merchandise constitutes the greatest part of value for the price received, but does not include a farm auction sale conducted by or for a resident farmer of personal property used on the farm, or the sale of produce or other perishable products at retail or wholesale by a resident of this state.

(Ord. of 8-12-91(1), § 1(2))

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.