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73190,3 SEC. 5.30. SOLICITOR AND TRANSIENT r.ERCHANTS Subd. 1. Purpose. This Section is not intended to in any way hinder, delay or interfere with legitimate business or organizational activities. The Council finds, however, that solicitors have used public streets and their direct contact with residents of the City for the illegitimate solicitation practices of harassment, nuisance, theft, deceit, or menacing, troublesome or unlawful activities. This section is intended to ferret out and control: (1) businesses and organizations using solicitation as a means of concealing unlawful activities; and (2) c^'-inesses and organizations which, though its activities be lawful or even commendable, use such illegitimate practices in solicitation; and, (3) individual natural persons who, though they represent lawful business and organizations, use such illegitimate solicitation practices; and, (4) businesses and transient merchants, though legitimate, which cause, or are likely to cause, a traffic hazard or other inconvenience or danger to persons or property. The Council further finds that a large number of the residents of the City are employed as their livelihood and means of support by manufacturing plants and other businesses on shifts rotating between night and day, and to disturb them during their sleeping hours for the purpose of solicitation is a source of nuisance or even harassment and should be subject to control. Subd. 2. Definitions. The following terms, as used in this Section, shall be the meanings stated; A. "Solicitor" means any person making the solicitation, including such common terms as "peddler", "transient merchant" and "canvassar". B. "Solicitee" means the person solicited. C. "Goods" means any tangible thing of value, but not including money, things in action or intangible personal property other than merchandise certificates or coupons as herein described. 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 thereof whether or not severable therefrom. 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. of any kind. D. "Services" means work, labor, or services E. "Established place" means tfeal estate a buiIding and its real estate that constitute a principa1 use under the zoning code in the City owned, leased or occupied on a month-to-month or term-certain longer than sixty (60) consecutive days subject to a^l^ app 1 icab le zoning ord inances. The term