The following shall be exempt from all provisions of this chapter:
(A) Any person making regular deliveries of newspapers, fuel, or dairy products or other similar marketed good to regular customers on established routes.
(B) Any person selling goods at wholesale to dealers in such goods.
(C) Any person selling locally grown agricultural products which such person has grown.
(D) Any permanent merchant or employee thereof who takes orders away from the established place of business for goods regularly offered for sale by such merchant within this county and who delivers such goods in their regular course of business.
(E) Any person who has an established place of business where the goods being sold are offered for sale on a regular basis, and in which the buyer has initiated contact with, and specifically requested a home visit and/or delivery by said person.
(F) Any person who has had, or one who represents a company which has had a prior business transaction, such as a prior sale or credit arrangement, with the prospective customer.
(G) Any person selling or offering for sale a service unconnected with the sale or offering for sale of goods.
(H) Any person holding a sale required by statute or by order of any court and any person conducting a bona fide auction sale pursuant to law.
(I) Any employee, officer or agent of a charitable organization who engages in direct sales for or on behalf of said organization, provided that there is submitted to the City Clerk proof that such charitable organization is registered under applicable Minnesota Statutes, or which is exempt from any otherwise applicable registration requirement, shall be required to register under this chapter.
(J) Any person who claims to be a permanent merchant but against whom complaint has been made to the City Clerk that such person is a transient merchant, provided that there is submitted to the City Clerk proof that such person has leased for at least one year, or purchased the premises from which he is conducting business, or proof that such person has conducted such business in this city for at least one year prior to the date complaint was made.
(K) Included, but not limited to, any public or private school located within the city , Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and organizations associated therewith located within the city, purporting to be such, but shall not include religious organizations. However, these groups and organizations shall be required to register with the City Clerk's office on a yearly basis to advise all sales activities and dates.
(L) Any person selling holiday trees, wreaths or other fresh greenery associated with the holiday season except as may be violations of other city zoning and any other regulations.
(M) Persons conducting the type of sales commonly known as garage sales, rummage sales or estate sales, as well as those persons participating in an organized multi-person bazaar or flea market.
(N) Any person going from house to house, door to door, business to business, street to street or other type of place to place when the activity is for the purpose of exercising that person's state or federal constitutional rights such as the freedom of speech, press, religion and the like, except that this exemption may be lost if the person's exercise of constitutional rights is merely incidental to a commercial activity.
(Ord. 340, passed 4-14-97; Am. Ord. 394, passed 4-28-03)