§ 6-55. Definitions.

The following terms whenever used in this article shall have these meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context.

Itinerant vendor means and includes and shall be construed to mean and include all persons, firms and corporations, as well as their agents and employees, who engage in the temporary or transient business in the unincorporated area of the county, of selling, offering for sale or exhibiting for sale any goods, wares or merchandise and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, either hires, rents, leases or occupies any room or space in any building, structure, any lot or parcel of land or vehicle in said unincorporated area of Santa Rosa County, in, through or from which any goods, wares or merchandise may be sold, offered for sale or exhibited for sale.

The word "temporary" as used above means, and shall be construed to mean, any such business transacted or conducted in the unincorporated area of Santa Rosa County for which definite arrangements have not been made for the hire, rental or lease of premises for at least 180 days in or upon which such business is to be operated or conducted, excepting from the provision of this article any business sponsored by or under contract with an established business, shopping mall, shopping center or interstate fair ground, and which agrees in writing to act as surety therefor for the period which said business contracts with or is sponsored by such established business, shopping mall, shopping center, or interstate fair ground and two years thereafter.

The word "transient" as used above means, and shall be construed to mean, any such business of any such itinerant vendor as may be operated or conducted by person, firms, or corporations, or by their agents or employees who reside away from Santa Rosa County or who have fixed places of business in places other than Santa Rosa County, or who have their headquarters in places other than Santa Rosa County, or who move stocks of goods or merchandise or samples thereof into the said County with the purpose or intention of removing them or the unsold portion thereof away from said County before the expiration of 180 days.

(Ord. No. 2003-30, § 5, 12-11-03)