Section 51-04-01 - DefinitionsIn this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Merchandise" does not include any livestock or agricultural product.2. "Transient merchant" includes any person, individual, copartnership, corporation, or limited liability company, either as principal or agent, who engages in, does, or transacts any temporary or transient business in this state, either in one locality, or in traveling from place to place in this state, selling, or soliciting orders for future delivery of, goods, wares, merchandise, personal property, and personal services including spraying, trimming, or pruning of trees and shrubs of all species, painting or repairing buildings or structures, pest or rodent control, and taking photographs for present or future delivery, who does not intend to become and does not become a permanent merchant of such place.