A. “Peddler” as used herein includes any person, whether a resident of Everett or not, traveling by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle or any other type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, foods, including without limitation meats, fish, vegetables, and fruits, garden truck, farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for sale, or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers, or who, without traveling from place to place, sells or offers the same for sale, from a wagon, automotive vehicle, railroad car, or other vehicle or conveyance; and further provided, that one who solicits orders and as a separate transaction makes deliveries to purchasers as a part of the scheme or design to evade the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a peddler subject to the provisions of this chapter. The word “peddler” includes the word “hawker” and “huckster.” The term “peddler” shall not include any person selling farm products produced and/or manufactured by such person as provided by RCW 36.71.090, or a person operating a food truck as defined by this section, and no license shall be required of such person.

B. A “canvasser” or “solicitor” is defined as any individual, whether a resident of Everett or not, traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck, 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 sale of goods, wares and merchandise, personal property of any nature whatsoever for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether for compensation or without compensation, whether or not such individual has, carries or exposes for sale a sample of the subject of such sale or whether such person is collecting advance payments on such sales or not; provided, that such definition shall include any person who, for that person or for another person, firm or corporation, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, tent, railroad box car, boat, hotel room, lodging house, apartment, shop or any other place within the city for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery; provided, that anyone soliciting orders or transacting business with business establishments or retail or wholesale outlets for resale or retail sales by said outlets in the city shall be excluded from the definition herein set forth and the scope of this chapter.

C. A “food truck” is a business that, as its principal function, sells or otherwise dispenses prepared food and beverages to the general public from a licensed motor vehicle that is not permanently affixed to real property. The term excludes food delivery vehicles that move from place to place and are stationary for no more than thirty minutes at a time, such as ice cream trucks. (Ord. 3689-19 § 2, 2019; Ord. 295-74 Ch. 9 § 2, 1974.)