The purpose of this chapter is to prevent fraud, and criminal activity, such as burglary, theft and assault, and to protect the privacy of residents in their homes by requiring commercial solicitors, peddlers, transient merchants, and canvassers to be licensed and to impose restrictions on their operations within the city that are narrowly tailored to address the risks these operations pose to the public health, safety and welfare. It is not the purpose of this chapter to burden interstate commerce or interfere with constitutionally-protected rights under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution or Art. 1, Section 3 of the Minnesota Constitution.
(1987 Code, § 308.01) (Ord. 265, passed 1-25-1993; Am. Ord. 484, passed 10-24-2011)