Transient Merchant License

Anyone who engages in any temporary or transient business within Goodhue County to sell goods is required to obtain a transient merchant license.

MN Statues 329.099-.17  MS Statue Chapter 297A.83

The term transient merchant means any person, individual, co-partnership, limited liability company, and corporation, both as principal and agent, who engages in, does, or transacts any temporary and transient business in the State of Minnesota, either in one locality, or in traveling from place to place in this state, selling goods, wares, and merchandise; and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease, occupy, or use a building, structure, vacant lot, or railroad car for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise.

The term transient merchant does not include a seller or exhibitor in a firearms collector show involving two or more sellers or exhibitors.

Any person, either as principal or agent, conducting business as a transient merchant without having first obtained a license is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

Application Process

The following required documents must be completed and accepted prior to issuing a license. Forms can be downloaded online but must be printed, signed, and mailed or delivered to our office.

Additional Required Documents

Validation

Licenses are:

Fees & Applications

Transient Merchant License Application

Penalties

Every person, either as principal or agent, that conducts any one of the following actions without first obtaining a license is guilty of a gross misdemeanor:

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