As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
(As used in the definitions "transient merchant" or "itinerant
vendor" and "new business.") The operation of a business at a building,
structure, site or other premises containing a sign or other designation
of the business located therein, stock-in-trade available for immediate
sale, furnishings and equipment for the usual and ordinary conduct
of business and being open at regular intervals for the transaction
of business.
Includes political, patriotic, religious, service, welfare,
benevolent, educational, civic or fraternal corporations, organizations,
associations, societies and the like not organized for private gain.
Examples of nonprofit organizations include veterans groups and organizations
which assist the poor, the aged, the sick, the physically handicapped
or mentally retarded or which aid victims of fire, flood or similar
catastrophes. This enumeration is intended to be typical and shall
not be construed as exclusive. All applicants shall provide satisfactory
proof of nonprofit status upon request, including but not limited
to evidence of tax exemption.
Includes alms, food, clothes, money, subscription or property
of any nature or kind.
Business days of the Township.
A person, commonly referred to either as a "peddler" or "hawker,"
who goes from place to place by traveling on the streets or from house
to house and carries with him goods, wares and merchandise and any
other commodity for the purpose of selling and delivering them to
consumers. Included in the foregoing definition are order takers,
purveyors of subscriptions for newspapers, periodicals, magazines,
books and the like, and any and all other such persons who seek sales
or orders for services, goods, chattels or merchandise of any kind
or description covering those peddlers that are commonly known as
"door-to-door solicitors."
Any natural person, individual, firm, partnership, corporation,
company, association, church, religious denomination, society, class
or league and the principal or agent thereof.
A person, whether a resident of the Township or not, traveling
either by foot, wagon, automobile, motortruck or any other type of
conveyance from place to place, from house to house or from street
to street, taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of books,
wares and merchandise, personal property of any nature whatsoever
for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in
the future, whether or not the individual has, carries or exposes
for sale a sample of the subject of the sale, with or without accepting
an advance payment for the goods. The term "solicitor" shall also
include any person who may be taking a poll or a survey for commercial
purposes from house to house or on the streets.
The Supervisor of Licenses of the Township of Quinton. If
no supervisor is so designated, the Township Committee shall be the
designated supervisor.
A person who engages in the merchandising business in the
Township of Quinton with intent to close out or discontinue such business
within a period of one year from the date of commencement and, for
that purpose, hires, leases or occupies any building, structure, room,
tent, lot, railroad car or any other premises for the actual and bona
fide exhibition and/or sale of such goods, wares and merchandise and
other commodities.
A person who engages in the business of a transient merchant
or itinerant vendor and, in pursuance thereof, becomes a peddler or
hires a peddler as defined herein.
The operation of a business at one address; but the removal
of a business from one address to another shall not be deemed to be
the closing out of the business, and the opening of a new business
shall not be considered to mean the continuance of the same enterprise
at another address.
