A person engaging in the following activities is not required to obtain a license from the city:
(A) Selling personal property at garage sales, rummage sales, or estate sales. This includes persons participating in an organized multi-person bazaar or flea market;
(B) Selling newspapers, newsletters, or other similar publications on an established customer delivery route, when attempting to establish a regular delivery route, or when publications are delivered to the community at large;
(C) Selling products of the farm or garden grown or raised by the seller, including meat, but such activities must comply with applicable health regulations;
(D) Selling at an auction conducted by a licensed auctioneer, or any officers of the court conducting a court-ordered sale;
(E) Calling upon residents in connection with a regular route service for the sale and delivery of perished food and dairy products. This includes initial contacts to establish a customer delivery route. This exception does not relieve that person of duty to comply with other applicable city requirements;
(F) Sales or offers for sales by peddlers or solicitors who appear at the customer's home or place of business by an appointment which was made prior to such appearance are exempt from the provisions of this chapter;
(G) Noncommercial door-to-door advocates. No license or registration shall be required of any person going from house-to-house, door-to-door, business-to-business, street-to-street or any 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 freedom of speech, press, religion, and the like, except that this exemption does not apply if the person's exercise of constitutional rights is merely incidental to a commercial activity;
(H) Any person selling or attempting to sell at wholesale any goods, wares, products, merchandise, or other personal property to a commercial retail seller of the items being sold by the wholesaler; and
(I) Disseminating religious, political, social or ideological beliefs, including pamphleteering and canvassing for noncommercial purposes, or soliciting for, or selling, merchandise on behalf of tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations.
(Ord. 019, fourth series, passed 3-20-2024)