
First Amendment and Regulation of Signs
[FREE COURSE] This course covers the First Amendment and how it impacts city signage regulation.
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Cities have authority under state law to control certain occupations and activities to provide for the general welfare and good order of the city. Commonly licensed and regulated areas include liquor sales, lawful gambling and activities of peddlers and transient merchants.
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Learn about types of liquor licenses and criteria that applicants and their establishments must meet.
Describes how cities may control pets, farm animals, exotic animals, and newly popular hobbies of keeping bees or chickens.
City authority to regulate various activities city comes from state law. Learn about activities cities most commonly regulate and license.
Describes possible ways cities can regulate peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants.
Learn about regulating all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), golf carts, mini-trucks, motorized foot scooters, pocket bikes, mini-motorcycles, motorized bicycles, and electric-assisted bicycles.
Understand the basic concepts in licensing such as city authority, constitutional issues, preemption and limitation and fees.
Understand the city’s role in operating a municipal liquor store.
Understand how state laws affect a city’s ability to prohibit guns on city property.
Learn about the tools available to cities under state law to remedy unhealthy and dangerous properties.
Learn what gambling is allowed in Minnesota, like pull-tabs and raffles, and which organizations may conduct them.
[FREE COURSE] This course covers the First Amendment and how it impacts city signage regulation.
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