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<br />Ordinance 18 - 04
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<br />An Ordinance Amending Chapter 38, Article VIII, Peddler's Solicitors, Transient
<br />Merchants, and Mobile Food Units of the City of Elk River, Minnesota, City Code
<br />The City Council of the City of Elk River does hereby ordain as follows:
<br />SECTION 1. That § 38-381, Definitions of the City of Elk River Code of Ordinances shall be
<br />amended to add the following:
<br />The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings
<br />ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
<br />Mobile Food Unit means a self-contained food service operation located in a readily movable
<br />motorized wheeled or towed vehicle that is readily movable without disassembling and that is used
<br />to store, prepare, display, or serve food intended for individual portion service; or (2) a mobile food
<br />unit as defined in Minnesota Statutes Section 157.15. subdivision 9
<br />Mobile Food Cart means an outdoor food and beverage service establishment that is a non -
<br />motorized vehicle self-propelled by the operator. A mobile food cart is required to obtain a transient
<br />merchant license.
<br />Non-profit means an organization that currently has tax-exempt status from either the state or
<br />federal government and provides written evidence of that status.
<br />Occupant means a person owning, living, staying, or working at a residence, including a guest.
<br />Peddler means any person with no fixed place of business dealing in the city who travels around
<br />from place to place, or street to street, carrying or transporting goods, or soliciting for all manner of
<br />wares, services and merchandise, offering such wares, service or merchandise for sale or making
<br />sales and delivering articles to purchasers.
<br />Solicitor means any person who goes from place to place and/or house to house soliciting or
<br />taking or attempting to take orders for the purchase of any food, wares or merchandise, including
<br />magazines, books, periodicals or personal property of any nature whatsoever for delivery in the
<br />future, or orders for the performance of a service in or about the home or place of business, such as
<br />furnace cleaning, roof repair or blacktopping.
<br />Transient mercbant means any person, whether as principal, employee or agent, who engages in,
<br />does, or transacts any temporary or transient business in the city, either in one locality or traveling
<br />from place to place in the city, selling goods, wares, and merchandise, and who, for the purposes of
<br />carrying on such business, hires, leases, occupies or uses a building, structure, vehicle, property, or
<br />other place for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise.
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