§ 7.40.010. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated:

Commodity means food, beverages, goods, wares, and merchandise of any kind.

Department means the Department of Planning and Zoning.

Food service facility means a facility licensed by the Anne Arundel County Department of Health to prepare or sell food for the public.

Hawker means a peddler who advertises commodities or services of any type by crying out.

Itinerant merchant or transient vendor means any person who sells, or offers to sell, commodities or services of any type and remains at a fixed location for at least one day with the intent to stay temporarily for that purpose.

Mobile food service vendor means a mobile vendor that operates a food service facility.

Mobile vendor means a peddler or hawker who is selling commodities of any type from a mechanically, electrically, manually, or otherwise propelled vehicle operating on land or water.

Nonprofit organization means an organization that has been determined to be currently exempt from federal income taxation under the provisions of Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America, or any amendment, supplement, or revision to Section 501(c) in compliance with Maryland laws and subject to good standing with the Internal Revenue Service.

Peddler means any person who sells, or offers to sell, commodities or services of any type from house to house, or from place to place, or on the streets, or in any public place. A peddler also means a person who, without traveling from place to place, sells, or offers to sell, commodities of any type from a wagon, vehicle, boat, or other movable structure.

Person means an individual person or a business entity in good standing with the State of Maryland and the City of Annapolis.

Services means duty or labor to be rendered by one person to another.

Special event means an event permitted by the city under the provisions of Title 14, Chapter 18 of the City Code.

Yard sale means the sale, on private property, of goods previously used by the seller or sellers, and all similar sales on private property, including but not limited to "porch sales," "garage sales," "attic sales," "lawn sales," "moving sales," "community sales," and "estate sales" conducted on the property where the deceased resided.

(Ord. O-39-06 § 1 (part), 2007: prior code § 14-32(a))

(Ord. No. O-8-16 Amended, § I, 7-25-2016)