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807. MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR 807.010. REPAIR PROVISIONS. No person shall repair, overhaul, dismantle or otherwise do any mechanical or body work to or upon any motor vehicle within the limits of the City except in accordance with the terns and provisions of this Chapter. 807.020. TERM. A "motor vehicle ", for the purpose of this Chapter, is defined as any self - propelled vehicle operated by means of internal combustion or electrical propulsion. 807.030. PROVISIONS OF REPAIR. No person may repair, overhaul, dismantle or otherwise do any mechanical or body work to or upon any motor vehicle in a residential garage, home or other building, or in the yard, in or upon any premises located within an R -1, R -2 or R -3 residence district within the City, whether such work is performed free of charge or for compensation. This Section shall not be construed to prevent a resident of the City from doing work on his own automobile, provided such automobile is duly registered under the motor vehicle registration laws of Minnesota in the name of a person residing upon the premises where such work or repair is being performed and at the time the work is being done. No person repairing his own automobile upon his home premises shall carry on or perform such repair work after the hour of 10:00 o'clock p.m. or before the hour of 6:00 o'clock a.m. on any day, unless such work is being performed inside of his residential garage in such manner that the work being performed does not produce noise or disturbance to neighboring residents. 807.040. LICENSE. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of repairing, overhauling, dismantling or otherwise working upon any motor vehicle within the City limit without first obtaining a license to do so as hereinafter provided. This Section shall not apply to incidental or minor repairs to the electrical system, carburetor, brakes, or tires of motor vehicles when furnished or performed at a gasoline filling station in the normal course of such filling station business. 807.050. APPLICATION. A motor vehicle repair license shall be issued by the City pursuant to application made by the applicant upon the form to be furnished by the City. The fee for such license shall be established by City Council resolution with the license period conunencing July 1 of each year. The license shall be for a term of one year, except that the City Council shall have the authority to issue a license for a period shorter than one year to guarantee compliance with all conditions of the license and with all conditions of the zoning regulations. The license fee for any part of a year shall be the same as for a full year. The application shall contain the name and address of the applicant, the location where the license is to be used and such other information as the City may require for purposes of the administration of this Chapter. 807.060. RECORDS MAINTAINED. All persons licensed under this Chapter shall maintain records which will show the year, model and registration number of every motor vehicle upon which any work is performed by the licensee or his employees. Such records shall also disclose the nature, type or kind of work performed upon the vehicle. The licensee or employee in charge of any licensed 807 -1