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ORDINANCE #91-6 <br /> <br />CITY OF RAMSEY <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 7 WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE LICENSING <br />AND PERMITS CHAPTER OF THE CITY CODE. <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 7, SECTION 7.85 OF THE CITY CODE OF <br />RAMSEY, MINNESOTA. <br /> <br />The City of Ramsey Ordains: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. AMENDMENT <br /> <br />Amend Section 7.85 entitled Peddlers and Solicitors to read as follows: <br /> <br />7.85 Peddlers, Solicitors and Transient Merchants. <br /> <br />7.85.01 Definitions. For the purposes of this section the words defined in this <br />subsection have the meanings given to them. <br /> <br />"Peddler" means any person with no fixed place of business who goes from house to <br />house carrying or transporting goods, wares or merchandise and offering or exposing the <br />same for sale, or making sales and deliveries to purchasers of the same. <br /> <br />"Solicitor" means any person who goes from house to house soliciting or taking or <br />attempting to take orders for the purchase of any goods, wares or merchandise, including <br />magazines, books, periodicals or personal property of any nature whatsoever for delivery <br />in the future, or orders for the performance of maintenance or repair services in or about the <br />home or place of business, such as furnace cleaning, roof repair or blacktopping <br /> <br />"Transient Merchant" means any person, firm or corporation who engages temporarily <br />in the business of selling and delivering goods, wares, or merchandise within the City, and <br />who, in furtherance of such purpose, hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, <br />structure, vacant lot, motor vehicle, trailer, or railroad car. <br /> <br />Vendors of milk, groceries, bakery products, or other perishable commodities, or <br />vendors of soft water service or laundry and dry cleaning pick-up and delivery, who make <br />an uninvited initiatory call upon the occupant of a residence as a preliminary step to the <br />establishment of a regular route service for the sale and delivery of such commodities or the <br />providing of such services to regular customers, shall not be included within the above <br />definition of "peddler" or "solicitor". <br /> <br />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 <br />bona fide charitable, religious, civic, educational or political organization. <br /> <br /> <br />