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ORDINANCE NUMBER , SECOND SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5.30, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS, OK THE ORONO MUNICIPAL CODE The City Council of the City of Orono ordains: SECTION 1. Ordinance Amended. Ordinance Section 5.30, is hereby amended by deleting the existing language and substituting the following language in its place: CHAPTER 5: PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS Subd. 1. Definitions. Except as may otherwise be provided or clearly implied by context, all terms shall be given their commonly accepted definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. A. “Canvasser” means a person who goes from house-to-house, door- to-door, business-to-business, street-to-street, or any other type of place-to-place, for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain orders for goods, wares, products, merchandise, other personal property or services of which he or she may be carrying or transporting samples, or that may be described in a catalog or by other means, and for which delivery or performance shall occur at a later time. The absence of samples or catalogs shall not remove a person from the scope of this provision if the actual purpose of the person's activity is to obtain or attempt to obtain o^ers as discussed above. The term shall mean the same as the term “solicitor.” B.“Goods” means any tangible thing of value, but not including money, things in action or intangible personal property other than merchandise certificates or coupons. The term includes such chattels as are furnished or used at the time of sale or subsequently in the modernization, rehabilitation, repair, alteration, improvement or construction of real property so as to become a part of such property whether or not severable from such property. The term also includes merchandise certificates or coupons, issued by a retail seller, not redeemable in cash and to be used in their face amount in lieu of cash, in exchange for goods or services sold by such seller. C. “Hawker" means a person who goes from house-to-house, door-to- door, business-to-business, street-to-street, or any other type of place-to-place, for the purpose of offering for sale, displaying or exposing for sale, selling or attempting to sell, and delivering immediately upon sale, the goods, wares n^Mlircts, merchandise or other personal property that the person is carrying or otherwise transporting. The term hawker shall mean the same as the “peddler.” D. “Peddler” means a person who goes from house-to-house, door-to- door, business-to-business, street-to-street, or any other type of place-to-place, for the f!