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(a) Doing business by appointment. A bona fide appointment is one that is not merely obtained by going door-to-door in conjunction with the taking of orders, offering for sale or selling. (b) Solicitation of orders for future door-to-door delivery of newspapers. (c) Nonprofit groups that register with the city clerk. No fee is required to so register. This exemption does not include individuals who are paid to engage in peddling, soliciting, or transient merchant business. (d) Selling goods to retail or wholesale stores or to professional or industrial establishments for retail re- sale only. (e) Selling or peddling the products of the farm or garden grown and cultivated by such person, but such activities must comply with applicable health regulations. (f) All vendors involved in the following community events: Fourth of July celebration, Community Festival, Sherburne County Fair, Business Expo, and any other community event the city council deems exempt. (g) Garage sales, rummage sales, and craft sales. (h) Establishing a regular customer delivery route for the delivery of perishable food and dairy products such as baked goods, milli, and groceries._ (i) Selling goods or admissions to events by K-12 students where the proceeds of such sales benefit a program or activity in which the student is involved. Sec. 38-384. Duties of police. It shall be the duty of any police officer of the city to require any person seen soliciting, peddling, or engaging in like activities, and who is not known to such officer to be duly licensed, to produce his city issued license and a driver's license or state identification card. It shall be the duty of any police officer to enforce the provisions of this article or any other law. Sec. 38-385. Exclusion by placard (a) Any resident of the city who wishes to exclude peddlers or solicitors from premises occupied by the resident may place upon or near the usual entrance to such premises a printed placard or sign bearing the following notice: "Peddlers and Solicitors Prohibited." Such placard shall be at least 3 1/2 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide and the printing thereon shall not be.smaller than 49-point type. No peddler or solicitor, including those exempt from license requirements as provided in Section 38-383 of this Code, shall enter in or upon any premises, or attempt to enter in or upon any premises,where such a placard or sign is placed and maintained. (b) Violation of this section shall result in the revocation of a duly issued license. Secs. 38-386--38-410. Reserved. DIVISION 2. LICENSE Sec. 38-411. Required. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the activity of peddling, soliciting, or transient selling without first having obtained a license in compliance with the provisions of this division. A separate license shall be secured for each individual person engaged as a peddler, solicitor, or transient merchant.