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Ramsey, MN Code of Ordinances Page 1 of 6 <br />ARTICLE XIII. - PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS <br />Footnotes: <br />--- (7) --- <br />State Law reference— Hawkers, peddlers and transient merchants, Minn. Stats. ch. 329. <br />DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY <br />Sec. 26-549. - Definitions. <br />(a) <br />The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to <br />them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: <br />Peddler means any person with no fixed place of business who goes from house to house, business to <br />business, place to place, or street to street, carrying or transporting goods, wares or merchandise and <br />offering or exposing the same for sale, or making sales and deliveries to purchasers of the same. <br />Solicitor means any person who goes from house to house soliciting or taking or attempting to take <br />orders for the purchase of any goods, wares or merchandise, including magazines, books, periodicals <br />or personal property of any nature whatsoever for delivery in the future, or orders for the performance <br />of maintenance or repair services in or about the home or place of business, such as furnace cleaning, <br />roof repair or blacktopping. <br />Transient merchant means any person who engages temporarily (60 days or less) in the business of <br />selling and delivering goods, wares, or merchandise within the city, and who, in furtherance of such <br />purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, vacant lot, parking lot, tent, alley, <br />motor vehicle, trailer or railroad car. <br />(b) <br />Vendors of milk, groceries, bakery products, or other perishable commodities, or vendors of soft <br />water service or laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery, who make an uninvited initiatory call <br />upon the occupant of a residence as a preliminary step to the establishment of a regular route service <br />for the sale and delivery of such commodities or the providing of such services to regular customer, <br />shall not be included within the definition of "peddler" or "solicitor." <br />(c) . <br />The term "peddler" or "solicitor" does not include any person who sells or attempts to sell, or solicits <br />or attempts to solicit orders for goods, wares or merchandise, if doing so .on behalf of a bona fide <br />charitable, religious, civic, educational or political organization. <br />(Code 1978, § 7.85.01; Ord. No. 84-4A, 5-24-1984; Ord. No. 91-06, 6-17-1991; Ord. No. 08-12, § 2 <br />(7.85.01), 3-25-2008) <br />Sec. 26-550. - Placards. <br />ab'out:blank 5/4/2017 <br />