ARTICLE 1. GENERAL REGULATIONS

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DEFINITIONS.

As used in this chapter:

Amusement park shall mean any collection of the following:

a.    Ferris wheels.

b.    Merry-go-rounds.

c.    Miniature trains.

d.    Ponies.

e.    Small autos.

f.    Small boats or any other animal or mechanical rides and similar concessions and apparatus intended for amusement purposes.

Carnival, circus, rodeo or itinerant show shall mean a collection of any shows, acrobatic feats, vaudeville performances, exhibitions, contests, events, feats of strength, merchandise booths, games of skill or chance, amusement rides or other rides or devices of similar nature.

Contractor shall be synonymous with the term builder and shall mean any person who undertakes or offers to undertake or purports to have the capacity to undertake or submits a bid to or does himself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith.

Electrical contractor shall mean a contractor whose operations are the performance of construction work requiring special electrical skill.

Established business shall mean any occupation, trade, profession, calling or any other commercial enterprise in the City regularly kept open with someone in charge for the transaction of the particular business engaged in during the customary hours to transact such business.

General building contractor shall mean a person who has an agreement, written or verbal, expressed or implied, with the owner, his agent, lessee or licensee for the construction, alteration, wrecking, moving or demolishing of any of the structures or improvements described in the definition of “contractor” as set forth in this subsection as a whole; or one who is to superintend the work, and wherein there is required the use of two (2) or more unrelated trades or crafts.

Peddler shall mean any person, other than a sidewalk vendor operating with a valid permit issued in accordance with section 13-7 (sidewalk vending), who goes from house to house, place to place, or in or along the streets within the city selling or making immediate delivery, or offering for sale and immediate delivery any goods, wares or merchandise or anything of value, in possession of the peddler, or offering to perform personal services to persons other than manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers or retailers in such commodities.

Plumbing contractor shall mean a contractor whose operations are the performance of construction work requiring special plumbing skill.

Solicitor shall mean every person not having a fixed place of business within the City who engages in the business of going from house to house, place to place, or along the streets in the City and who by appointment, invitation, visitation or other means sells or offers to sell or takes orders for goods, wares, merchandise or other things of value for future delivery, or for services to be performed in the future.

Special contractor or subcontractor shall mean a contractor whose operations are the performance of construction work requiring special skill and whose principal contracting business involves the use of specialized building trades or crafts as specifically classified by the State Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, with the exception of general building, electrical, and plumbing contractors.

(Code 1972 §17-1; Ord. #1622-A, §3)