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Occupant A person owning, living, staying, ox working at a residence, including a guest. Sec. 38-382. Purpose of article. The purpose of this article is to protect citizens by imposing reasonable regulations on peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants so as to prevent individuals who may be engaged in unlawful activities from posing as legitimate peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants. In addition to the provisions of Ch. 38, Article I of this Code, the following shall apply: Sec. 38-383. Exemptions. All persons described in this section shall comply with the provisions of Section 38-414 even if they ate exempt from licensing. The city clerk may determine that certain business activities that may have characteristics similar to those regulated by this article may be exempt from the requirements of this article. Examples include: (1) 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. (2) Solicitation of orders for future door-to-door delivery of newspapers. (3) Nonprofit groups that register with the city clerk. No fee is required to so register. This exception does not include individuals who axe paid to engage in peddling, soliciting, or transient merchant business. (4) Selling goods to retail or wholesale stores ox to professional ox industrial establishments for retail sale only. (5) 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. (6) 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. (~ Garage sales, rummage sales, and craft sales. (8) Establishing a regular customer delivery route fox the delivery of perishable food and dairy products such as baked goods, milk, and groceries. (9) 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 license and city issued identification card and to enforce the provisions of this article against any person when in violation of this article. S:\Administtation\Licenses\Transient & Solicitor\Ordinance Amendment 2007\Oedinance Repeal So6c.doc