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business in the city; (e) A brie f written description of the nature of the business, the goods to be sold and the applicant's method of operation; (f) A brief statement of the nature, charac ter and content of the advertising done or proposed to be done in order to attract customers (sa mples may be requested); (g) Full legal name of any a nd all business operations owned, managed or operated by applicant, or for which the applicant is an employee or agent; (h) The le ngth of time which the applicant intends to do business in the city with the approximate dates; (i) A statement as to whether or not the applicant or the person managing the business activities has been convicted within the last five years of any felony, gross misdemea nor or misdemeanor for violation of any state or fede ral statute or any local ordinance, other than traffic offenses; (j) The applicant's driver's lic ense number or other acc eptable form of ide ntification. (k) If a vehicle is to be used, a description of the same together with license number or other means of ide ntification; (l) A photograph of the applicant, taken within 60 days immediately prior to the date of filing of the applica tion, which picture shall be two inches by two inches showing the head and shoulders of the applicant in a c lear and distinguishing ma nner; (m) A list of the three most recent locations where the applicant has conducted business as a peddler, solicitor or transient merchant; and (n) Tra nsient merchants shall include the addresses of a ll places where the business is to be located along with written consent of the owners or occ upants. (P rior Code, § 612.06) (Ord. 01-89, passed 2-13-1989) (4) Fee. All applications for a license under this chapter shall be accompanied by the fee established by ordina nce annually in the city fee schedule, as it may be amended from time to time. (5) Proced u re. Upon receipt of the completed application and payment of the license fee, the City Clerk must determine if the application is complete. An a pplication is determined to be complete only if all required information is provided. If the City Clerk determines that the application is incomplete, the City Clerk must inform the a pplicant of the required or necessary information that is missing. If the application is complete, the City Cle rk must order any investigation, including background checks, necessary to verify the information provided with the application. The City Clerk will present the license request to the Council as soon as possible. If there exists grounds for denying the license under § 613.05, the Clerk will present that information to the City Council. If the Council denies the license, the applicant must be notified in writing of the decision, the reason for denial and of the applicant's right to a ppeal the denial by re questing, within 20 days of receiving notice of reje ction, a public hearing before the City Counc il. The City Council shall hear the appeal within 20 days of the date of the request. (6) Licen se ex emp tio n s. (a) No license shall be required of any person going from house-to-house, door-to-door, business-to-business, street-to-stree t or 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 the freedom of speech, press, religion and the like, except that this exemption may be lost if the pe rson's exerc ise of constitutional rights is merely incidental to a c ommercial ac tivity. (b) P rofessional fundraisers working on behalf of an otherwise exempt person or group sha ll not be exe mpt from the licensing requirements of this chapter. § 6 1 3 .05 LICENSE INELIGIB ILITY. The following shall be grounds for denying a lic ense under this chapter: (1) The failure of the applicant to truthfully provide any of the information requested by the city as part of the application, or the failure to sign the application or the failure to pay the required fee at the time of application; (2) The convic tion of the applicant within the past five years from the date of application for any violation of any federal or state