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Title 9, Chapter 1
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§ 9-101
Rocky Top
Title 9 : Business, Peddlers, Solicitors, etc.
Chapter 5 : Outdoor Storage And Display Of Merchandise; Sidewalk Sales, Garage Sales And Yard Sales

9-503 : Exemptions.

The provisions of this chapter, related solely to the outdoor storage and/or display of merchandise, shall not apply to or affect the following persons, entities, business, circumstances, or activities:

  1. Persons acting pursuant to an order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction;
  2. Persons acting in accordance with their powers or duties as public officers, such as sheriffs, marshals or police officials;
  3. Duly licensed auctioneers, selling at public auction;
  4. Sellers of operating and operational trucks, automobiles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, trailers, tractors, farm equipment, riding lawn mowers and the like, so long as such item and/or merchandise is not stored or displayed in such a way as to obstruct the views of motorists on or entering on or exiting from any public streets or right-of-way, nor stored or displayed any closer than five feet (5') from the public right-of-way and provided that no inoperable, partially dismantled and/or junked automobile, tractor, boat, farming equipment, etc. shall be stored, displayed or offered for sale in violation of any other provision of this chapter or of any other provision of the City of Rocky Top Code;
  5. Sellers of new building materials;
  6. Sellers of live shrubbery, flowers and landscaping plants.(1996 Code, § 9-703)