Fulton Definitions ordinance (§ 22-1)

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms and business designations, unless expressly defined in this chapter or by another chapter of this Code, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Auctioneer means every person who shall sell or offer to sell any goods, wares or merchandise or other personal property or any real estate or interest therein at any stand, store or other place in the city at public outcry for his own gain or who shall advertise or in any way hold himself out as an auctioneer for public patronage or who shall receive any fee as commission for his services.

Bakery means a business carried on or conducted by any person engaged in the sale or manufacture of bread or other bakery products.

Bakery trucks or wagons means trucks or wagons used in the business of selling or delivering bakery products by bakeries or businesses other than bakeries which have their places of business within the city.

Broker means a person dealing in stocks and securities or providing an investment service.

Circuses and menageries means all circuses, animal shows, wild west shows, menageries and traveling tent shows or museums.

Contractor means every person who, in pursuit of his independent business, undertakes to perform a job or piece of work, retaining in himself control of the means, method and manner of accomplishing the desired result, regardless of any limitation as to the means, method and manner of accomplishing the desired result.

Garage keeper means every person who shall keep any place or location where motor vehicles or any parts thereof are repaired, stored, cleaned or otherwise worked on.

Hotel, inn or public roominghouse means any house or building, the rooms and accommodations of which are offered to the traveling or transient public for hire.

Insurance agent means an agent who represents only one insurance company.

Insurance broker means a person who represents several insurance companies.

Junk and secondhand dealer means one of the following:

(1) Generally. Every person buying, selling or offering to buy or sell or in any manner dealing in junk and secondhand goods, with the exception of furniture and household goods, shall be deemed to be a junk or secondhand dealer.

(2) Itinerant junk and secondhand dealer. A junk or secondhand dealer temporarily engaged in the business in the city and not permanently located therein and not having any permanent stand or location therein shall be deemed to be an itinerant junk dealer.

(3) Regular junk and secondhand dealer. A junk or secondhand dealer having a permanent location in the city and a permanent place of business therein shall be deemed to be a regular junk or secondhand dealer.

Loan agent means every person, other than bankers or banking corporations or institutions, who, for a commission, negotiates, obtains or effects loans of money or real estate security or on collateral security or personal guarantees or who effects or negotiates for the purchase or sale of stocks, bonds, bills of exchange, bullion, coin, money or currency, promissory notes or other securities for himself or others. Every person thus defined who is not a licensed real estate agent must obtain a license provided for in section 22-38 before transacting any such business.

Newspaper agency means any person who shall engage in the regular daily distribution of daily metropolitan newspapers.

Posting agency means any person engaged in the business of posting on signboards, walls or other places bills, posters or other advertising matter or distributing in public places or from store to store or from house to house in the city circulars, handbills, samples or other advertising matter.

Public bus means any motor vehicle with a capacity of ten or more people offered to the public as a public bus business for the mere purpose of carrying or transporting passengers for a charge or fee.

Real estate agent means every person or firm composed of one or more persons who shall act as agent for any party in the leasing, renting or selling of houses or real estate at private or public sale or who shall receive or collect rents for another for a commission or other compensation or who shall advertise or hang out any sign or device which shall designate him as an agent for the renting, collecting of rents, leasing or selling of houses or real estate and every person who for commission or other compensation is engaged in the selling of or negotiating for the sale of real estate belonging to others.

Solicitor means any person who shall go about from place to place in the city selling or offering to sell work, services or merchandise of any kind.

Transient vendor means any person traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck or any other type of conveyance within the city from place to place in and upon private residences or who shall make use of a telephone to take or attempt to take orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise or any personal

property of whatever nature for future delivery or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sales. This definition shall include any person who, for himself or another person, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad boxcar, mobile home, boat, hotel room, lodginghouse, apartment, shop or any other place within the city for the sole purpose of whatever nature and taking orders for the sale of such property for future delivery.