Torrance Municipal Code § 31.1 Definitions

Shall mean conducting, engaged in, managing or carrying on any profession, trade, calling, occupation or commercial enterprise in the City.

Shall mean any person who regularly conducts any business by renting or leasing floor space from another person in the latter’s place of business, on a cash rental, or commission basis, or otherwise.

Shall mean a business which is fixed or settled in the City rather than temporary and transient, the proprietor of which occupies any building or place or portion thereof for the purpose of selling real or personal property or services.

(Amended by O-1501)

Shall mean the License Supervisor of the City of Torrance.

Shall mean goods, wares, merchandise or other tangible personal property.

Shall mean, except where the context requires a different meaning, an individual, a co-partnership, joint venture, a firm, an unincorporated association, a syndicate, a club, a society, a trust and all private or political or charitable or social organizations doing business or existing under and by virtue of any law, as a corporation or otherwise.

Shall each mean:

a) Any contract to sell, sale or conditional sale as defined in Part IV, Division 3 of the California Civil Code;

b) Any supplying of merchandise to the special order of the purchaser; and

c) Any transfer of possession of merchandise where a person other than the transferee retains or receives the Title thereto for security purposes.

a) Shall include any business, not specifically listed elsewhere in this Division, which by its nature is only conducted intermittently for periods of five (5) days or less.

b) Shall not include businesses which have a business license at regular business locations and which for any reason discontinues business in five (5) days or less.

Shall mean any person selling or offering for sale goods, wares, merchandise of any kind or food or drink from a pack, stand or vehicle or by going from place to place who has such goods, wares or merchandise in his possession at the time of selling or offering for sale and who primarily relies on present solicitation of chance customers for purchases of uncertain quantities of such goods, wares or merchandise and concurrently sells and delivers them.

(Added by O-3928; O-3929)

Flight School shall have the same definition as set forth in 49 CFR § 1552.1(b), as that section may be amended from time to time, and shall mean any pilot school, flight training center, air carrier flight training facility, or flight instructor certificated under 14 CFR part 61, 121, 135, 141, or 142, as those provisions are amended from time to time; or any other person or entity that provides instruction under 49 U.S.C. Subtitle VII, Part A, in the operation of any aircraft or aircraft simulator. No more than 6 active business licenses may be issued for Flight Schools in the City at any one time.