§ 8-181. Exemptions.

The following shall be exempt from all provisions of this article:

(1)

Any person delivering newspapers, fuel, dairy products or bakery goods to regular customers on established routes;

(2)

Any person selling goods at wholesale to dealers in such goods;

(3)

Any person selling agricultural products which such person has grown;

(4)

Any permanent merchant or employee thereof who takes orders away from the established place of business for goods regularly offered for sale by such merchant within this county and who delivers such goods in their regular course of business;

(5)

Any person who has an established place of business within the school district where the goods being sold are offered for sale on a regular basis, and in which the buyer has initiated contact with, and specifically requested a home visit by, said person;

(6)

Any person who has had, or one who represents a company which has had, a prior business transaction, such as a prior sale or credit arrangement, with the prospective customer;

(7)

Any person selling or offering for sale a service unconnected with the sale or offering for sale of goods;

(8)

Any person holding a sale required by statute or by order of any court and any person conducting a bona fide auction sale pursuant to law;

(9)

Any employee, officer or agent of a charitable organization who engages in direct sales for or on behalf of said organization, provided that there is submitted to the chief of police proof that such charitable organization is registered under Wis. Stats. § 440.41, or which is exempt from that statute's registration requirements, shall be required to register under this article;

(10)

Any person who claims to be a permanent merchant, but against whom complaint has been made to the chief of police that such person is a transient merchant, provided that there is submitted to the chief of police proof that such person has leased for at least one year, or purchased, the premises from which he is conducting business, or proof that such person has conducted such business in this village for at least one year prior to the date complaint was made.

(Code 1989, § 7-4-3)