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Ordinance 2009-436 Peddlers, Solicitors and Transient Merchants <br />Page 2 of 7 <br />Sec. 58-2. Penalty. <br />Any person or organization that violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a petty <br />misdemeanor. <br />Sec. 58-3. Exemptions. <br />This article does not apply to the following: <br />(1) Sales of goods, merchandise or services to businesses, commercial, or industrial users at <br />their usual place of business. <br />(2) Deliveries of previously sold goods or services in the regular course of business, or <br />deliveries or sales made as a part of a regular established route to preexisting customers. <br />(3) Vendors who make an uninvited call upon the occupant of a residence as a preliminary step <br />to the establishment of regular route services for the sale and delivery of commodities and <br />services to regular customers such as vendors of milk, groceries, and other perishable <br />commodities; soft water service; laundry and dry cleaning pick-up and delivery; and newspapers. <br />(4) Any sale under court order. <br />(5) Any bona fide auction sale by a city resident that is using the services of a properly licensed <br />auctioneer. <br />(6) Sidewalk sales related to the adjoining business. <br />(7) Garage sales or rummage sales when conducted by a nonprofit organization, or when <br />conducted upon the premises of the owner of the articles being offered for sale, provided that <br />such sales do not last longer than 72 hours, and provided that no more than three sales be <br />conducted on any given location within one year. <br />(8) Sale of admissions by local school students to a school function or by local bona fide civic <br />or nonprofit organizations for entertainment functions sponsored by such organizations. <br />(9) Sales allowed by state law which prohibit local licensing or regulation. <br />(10) Any person canvassing. <br />Sec. 58-4. Prohibited practices. <br />It is unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any peddler, solicitor or transient merchant to: <br />(1) Refuse to leave the premises when requested by the owner, lessee, person in charge thereof, <br />or the person being solicited. <br />2 <br />