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<br /> ORDINANCE NO. 50 r SECOND SERIES
<br /> AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBDIVISIONS 1, 2 (H) , 2 (I) , 3, 3 (B) , 3 (F) ,
<br /> 3 (G) , 4 and 5 (B) , OF SECTION 5.30 ADOPTED APRIL 1, 1984 , AND
<br /> ENTITLED "SOLICITORS"
<br /> The City Council of the City of Orono ordains:
<br /> Ordinance No. 5.30 Subdivisions l , 2 (H) , 2 (I) , 3, 3 (B) ,
<br /> 3 (F) , 3 (G) , 4 and 5 (B) adopted Apr i 1 1 , 1984 and entitled
<br /> "Sol icitors" is amended to read:
<br /> Section 5. 30. SOLICITOR AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS
<br /> Subd. 1. Purpose. This Section is not intended to in
<br /> any way hinder , delay or interfere with legitimate business or
<br /> organizational activities. The Council finds, however , that
<br /> solicitors have used public streets and their direct contact with
<br /> residents of the City for the illegitimate solicitation practices
<br /> of harassment, nuisance, theft, deceit, or menacing, troublesome
<br /> or unlawful activities. This Section is intended to ferret out
<br /> and control: (1) businesses and organizations using solicitation
<br /> as a means of concealing unlawful activities; and, (2) businesses
<br /> and organizations which, though its activities be lawful or even
<br /> commendable, use such illegitimate practices in solicitation;
<br /> and , (3) individual natural persons who, though they represent
<br /> lawful business and organizations, use such illegitimate
<br /> solicitation practices; and , (4) businesses and transient
<br /> merchants , though legitimate, which cause, or are likely to
<br /> cause , a traffic hazard or other inconvenience or danger to
<br /> persons or property. The Council further finds that a large
<br /> number of the residents of the City are employed as their
<br /> livelihooc7 and means of support by manufacturing plants and other
<br /> businesses on shifts rotating between night and day, and to
<br /> disturb them during their sleeping hours for the purpose of
<br /> solicitation is a source of nuisance or even harassment and
<br /> should be subject to control.
<br /> Subdivision 2. Definitions .
<br /> H. "Transient Merchant Activities" means engaging
<br /> in any temporary, intermittent, or transient sales or exchanges
<br /> of any goods, wares, or services by setting up any outdoor stand
<br /> or structure, or by using any truck, automobile, or any other
<br /> vehicle, at any point or place in the City.
<br /> I. "Transient Merchant" means any person engaging
<br /> in transient merchant activities .
<br /> Subdivision 3. Prohibited Solicitation and Transient �
<br /> Merchant Practices.
<br /> B. It is unlawful for any solicitor or transi-ent
<br /> merchant to practice harassment, nuisance, theft, deceit , or
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