§ 201.50. Produce and craft market requirements.

The holder of a produce and craft market license issued pursuant to this chapter shall comply with the following requirements:

(1)

Produce and craft markets may contain market vendors selling self-produced goods, of any type, with a maximum of one (1) market vendor, or ten (10) percent of market vendors, whichever is greater, permitted as a seasonal food vendor selling packaged food for off-site consumption. Permitted vendors include:

a.

Product of the farm (growers/farmers).

b.

Seasonal food permit vendor reselling only fresh fruits and vegetables, and only when said produce is not in season and not available at the market from product of the farm (growers/farmers) vendors.

c.

Registered cottage food vendors.

d.

Minneapolis seasonal food permit vendors offering food for immediate consumption.

e.

Craft producers.

f.

Vendors of services.

g.

Plant vendors.

(2)

A minimum of thirty (30) percent of market vendors in produce and craft markets shall be food vendors.

(3)

Produce and craft markets shall not contain market vendors of the following types:

a.

Market vendors selling any entity's non-food product as an agent, franchisee, distributor, licensee; or on consignment; or by any other third-party arrangement.

b.

Market vendors selling non-food items such as "vintage," "found," "reclaimed" or "recycled" objects, or any other objects not originally manufactured by the market vendor unless those objects have been substantially transformed by the market vendor into objects of dissimilar form or function from the original.

(4)

Upon initial application, renewal application or request by city staff, produce and craft markets shall provide a set of bylaws, or in the case that the market is sponsored by another organization, a set of approved operating rules along with the bylaws of the sponsoring organization, that address the market's ownership, governance structure, decision-making process, the market vendors' relationship to the market organization and the means by which market vendors' interests are represented and protected in the governance of the market.

(5)

Produce and craft markets may take place outdoors or indoors. (2011-Or-095, § 5, 11-4-11; Ord. No. 2017-017 , § 8, 4-28-17)