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manufactured products, and similar items not fully enclosed by a building. <br />Family means an individual, or two or more persons each related by blood, marriage, <br />domestic partnership, adoption, or foster care arrangement living together as a single <br />housekeeping unit, or group of not more than four persons not so related, maintaining a <br />common household. <br />Farm, rural (agriculture) means a rural farm is a commercial food-producing use on ten or <br />more contiguous acres and as defined under a portion of the Minnesota Agricultural Property <br />Tax Law (Minn. Stats. § 273.111). <br />Farm, suburban (agriculture) means a suburban farm is a noncommercial food-producing <br />use primarily intended for the use of the residents, and usually on less than ten contiguous acres. <br />Suburban agricultural uses may include production of crops such as fruit trees, shrubs, plants, <br />flowers, vegetables, and domestic pets. <br />Farmer's market means an open-air public market at which vendors sell farm products <br />directly to consumers. <br />Feed lot means the place of housing or feeding of livestock or other animals for food, fur, <br />pleasure, or resale purposes in yards, lots, pens, buildings, or other areas not normally used for <br />pasture or crops and in which substantial amounts of manure or related other wastes may <br />originate by reason of such feeding of animals. <br />Fence means a partition, structure, wall, or gate erected as a dividing marker, visual or <br />physical barrier, or enclosure. <br />Fill means any act by which soil, earth, sand, gravel, rock, or any similar material is <br />deposited, placed, pushed, or transported and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom. <br />Final plat means a drawing or map of an approved subdivision, meeting all requirements of <br />the subdivision chapter, and in such form as required by the community for purposes of <br />recording. <br />Financial institution means a place of business where people store, borrow and exchange <br />money including banks, trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, credit <br />unions, check cashing facilities, and loan and thrift companies. <br />Firearm means any weapon (including starter gun) which will, can, or is designed to, or may <br />readily be converted to expel any missile, projectile, bullet or other mass through a barrel by <br />means of explosives or gas or air or electronic mechanism, and any frame, receiver, muffler or <br />silencer of any such weapon, but excluding the following: children's toy guns, "BB" guns, <br />antique firearms, scuba guns, medical instruments, industrial tools such as stud and nail guns and <br />any replica of any firearm which replica cannot, is not designed to, and cannot be readily <br />converted to, expel any missile, projectile, bullet or other mass through a barrel by any means. <br />Firearm, antique means any firearms (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, <br />percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured in or before 1898. <br />Firearms dealer means a person who is federally licensed to sell firearms and operates a gun <br />shop in which firearms are sold from a permanent business location or any person engaged in the <br />business of repairing firearms or making or fitting special barrels, stocks or trigger mechanisms <br />to firearms. <br />Flood means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of <br />normally dry land areas from overflow of inland or tidal waves, or the unusual and rapid