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2 <br />Occupant <br />A person owning, living, staying, or working at a residence, including a guest. <br />Sec. 38-382. Purpose of article. <br />The purpose of this article is to protect citizens by imposing reasonable regulations on peddlers, <br />solicitors, and transient merchants so as to prevent individuals who may be engaged in unlawful <br />activities from posing as legitimate peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants. <br />Sec. 38-383. Exemptions. <br />All persons engaged in the business activities described in this section shall comply with the provisions <br />of Section 38-414 (c). The following business activities shall be exempt from the requirements of this <br />article. The City Clerk shall determine if a business activity falls within these exemptions, subject to <br />appeal to the city council. <br />(a) Doing business by appointment. A bona fide appointment is one that is not merely obtained. by <br />going door-to-door in conjunction with the taking of orders, offering for sale or selling. <br />(b) Solicitation of orders for future door-to-door delivery of newspapers <br />(c) Nonprofit groups that register with the city clerk. No fee is required to so register. This <br />exemption does not include individuals who are paid to engage in peddling, soliciting, or <br />transient merchant business. <br />(d) Selling goods to retail or wholesale stores or to professional or industrial establishments for <br />retail sale only. <br />(e) Selling or peddling the products of the farm or garden grown and cultivated by such person, <br />but such activities must comply with applicable health regulations. <br />(f) All vendors involved in the following community events: Fourth of July celebration, <br />Community Festival, Sherburne County Fair, Business Expo, and any other community event <br />the city council deems exempt. <br />(g) Garage sales, rummage sales, and craft sales. <br />(h) Establishing a regular customer delivery route for the delivery of perishable food and dairy <br />products such as baked goods, milk, and groceries. <br />(i) Selling goods or admissions to events by K-12 students where the proceeds of such sales <br />benefit a program or activity in which the student is involved. <br />Sec. 38-384. Duties of police. <br />It shall be the duty of any police officer of the city to require any person seen soliciting, peddling, or <br />engaging in like activities, and who is not known to such officer to be duly licensed, to produce his city <br />issued license and a driver's license or state identification card. It shall be the duty of any police officer <br />to enforce the provisions of this article or any other law. <br />S:\Administration\Licenses\Transient & Solicitor\Ordinance Amendment 2007\Ordinance Repeal Solic.doc <br />