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Page 5 of 7 be exempt from the licensing requirements of this chapter. § 613.05 LICENSE INELIGIBILITY. The following shall be grounds for denying a license 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 conviction of the applicant within the past five years from the date of application for any violation of any federal or state statute or regulation, or of any local ordinance, which adversely reflects on the person's ability to conduct the business for which the license is being sought in an honest and legal manner. Those violations shall include but not be limited to burglary, theft, larceny, swindling, fraud, unlawful business practices and any form of actual or threatened physical harm against another person; (3) The revocation within the past five years of any license issued to the applicant for the purpose of conducting business as a peddler, solicitor or transient merchant; and (4) The applicant is found to have a bad business reputation. Evidence of a bad business reputation shall include, but not be limited to, the existence of more than three complaints against the applicant with the Better Business Bureau, the Attorney General's office or other similar business or consumer rights office or agency, within the preceding 12 months. § 613.06 LICENSE SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION. (1) Generally. Any license issued under this section may be suspended or revoked at the discretion of the City Council for violation of any of the following: (a) Fraud, misrepresentation or incorrect statements on the application form; (b) Fraud, misrepresentation or false statements made during the course of the licensed activity; (c) Conviction of any offense for which granting of a license could have been denied under § 613.05; and (d) Violation of any provision of this chapter. (2) Multiple persons under one license. The suspension or revocation of any license issued for the purpose of authorizing multiple persons to conduct business as peddlers or transient merchants on behalf of the licensee shall serve as a suspension or revocation of each authorized person's authority to conduct business as a peddler or transient merchant on behalf of the licensee whose license is suspended or revoked. (3) Notice. Prior to revoking or suspending any license issued under this chapter, the city shall provide the license holder with written notice of the alleged violations and inform the licensee of his or her right to a hearing on the alleged violation. Notice shall be delivered in person or by mail to the local http:// wv, Av .amleual.com /nxt /gateway.dll/ Minnesota/ linolakes _mn /600businessandactivityl... 11/4/2010