As used in this chapter:

“Business” means professions, trades, occupations, shops, and all and every kind of calling carried on for profit or livelihood.

“Hawker” means any person who, for himself or herself, or as agent of another, 7carries for sale and offers or exposes for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, produce, or any article or thing for which a price is asked in or on the streets, or who offers or exposes for sale any such commodity from a doorway, recess, alleyway, vacant lot, or other place facing on a street, whether making outcry or not.

“Peddler” or “peddling” means any sale, or offering for sale, or exposing for sale of any goods, wares, merchandise, produce, or any article or thing for which a price is asked by a peddler in pursuance of his or her occupation as a peddler.

“Solicitor” means any person who goes from house to house or from place to place in the city, selling or taking orders for, or offering to sell or take orders for goods, wares, merchandise, or any other article for future delivery, for services to be performed in the future, or for the making, manufacturing or repairing of any article or thing whatsoever for future delivery, excepting interstate commerce. (Prior code § 8.000)