18.02.010 Definitions

(a) "Business" includes all activities or acts, personal or corporate, engaged in with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect. For the purposes of this definition business does not include occasional or casual activities and sales. An occasional or casual activity occurs when a person engages in an isolated transaction that is not conducted with such frequency or is not one of a series of activities as to be sufficient to consider the person as regularly conducting the activity. "Business" shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Construction companies, contractors, repair services, or installation services;

(2) manufacturing or industrial concerns;

(3) retail and mercantile merchants;

(4) Automobile service stations, garages, repair or body shops;

(5) Retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer, contractors or any other business not located or having a place of business on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, but making sales and deliveries or providing services within the jurisdiction of the (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians);

(6) a farming or agricultural operation making use of land belonging to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, but shall not include such an operation primarily owned and operated by a tribal member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa;

(7) Any casino, enterprise, amusement park, sports arena, or center which is open to the public and conducted for profit;

(8) A motel, hotel, rooming house, trailer court, mobile home park, bowling alley, or Laundromat;

(9) A restaurant, bar, café, or snack bar; or

(10) Traveling merchants, food vendors, or peddlers.

(b) "Contractor" means a person, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or any of them, who undertakes 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, irrigation system, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erecting of scaffolding, or other structure or works in connection therewith, and includes subcontractors.

(c) "Person" includes an individual, officer, agent, company firm, partnership, joint venue, association, corporation, state, trust, or any other group or combination acting as unit, and shall include the singular and the plural.

(d) "Short term or temporary business" shall include the same definition as under "business," but the business is only intended to be conducted for a limited duration of time, not to exceed three (3) months, and the person does not intend to become an annual yearly business.