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(1) No license shall be required for any person to sell or attempt to sell, or to take or attempt to take orders for any product grown, produced, cultivated or raised on any farm when the grower or his or her direct employee is attempting to make the sale. (2) No license shall be required of any person going from house to house, door to door, business to business, street to street or other type of place to place when the activity is for the purpose of exercising that personÓs state or federal constitutional rights such as the freedom of speech, press, religion and the like, except that this exemption may be lost if the personÓs exercise of constitutional rights is merely incidental to a commercial activity. (3) Professional fundraisers working on behalf of an otherwise exempt person or group shall not be exempt from the licensing or registration requirements of this chapter. § 113.04 LICENSE OR REGISTRATION INELIGIBILITY. The following shall be grounds for denying a license or registration under this chapter: (A) The failure of the applicant to obtain and show proof of having obtained any required county license, where required; (B) The failure of the applicant to truthfully provide any of the information requested by the city as a part of the application; the failure to sign the application; or the failure to pay the required fee at the time of application; (C) The conviction of the applicant within the past five years from the date of application for any violation of any federal or state statute or regulation, or of any local ordinance, which adversely reflects on the personÓs ability to conduct the business or activity for which the license or registration is being sought in an honest and legal manner. Those violations shall include but not be limited to burglary, theft, larceny, swindling, fraud, unlawful business practices and any form of actual or threatened physical harm against another person; (D) The revocation within the past five years of any license or registration issued to the applicant for the purpose of conducting business as a peddler, solicitor or transient merchant; or (E) The applicant is found to have a bad business reputation. Evidence of a bad business reputation shall include but not be limited to the existence of more than three complaints against the applicant with the Better Business Bureau, the Attorney GeneralÓs office, or other similar business or consumer rights office or agency, within the preceding 12 months, or three complaints filed against the applicant within the preceding five years. § 113.05 LICENSE OR REGISTRATION SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION. 184΋tğŭĻ