(A) The Director of Public Safety shall establish a Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry.
(B) Any person in lawful possession and occupancy of any residence, house, apartment or other dwelling in the city may require the city to place and maintain his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling on the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry by submitting a request on forms(s) supplied by the Director of Public Safety, which shall contain the following information:
(1) The signature of the person completing the form(s), unless submission is done electronically with a secure password on the city’s website;
(2) The complete address of the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling to be placed on the registry;
(3) The date the form was completed; and
(4) A statement that no peddlers or solicitors shall call at this address or words of similar import on the form.
(C) Any person in lawful possession and occupancy of any residence, house, apartment or other dwelling in the city may require the city to remove his or her residence, house, apartment, or other dwelling from the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry by submitting a Notice of Removal on forms(s) supplied by the Director of Public Safety, which shall contain the following information:
(1) The signature of the person completing the form(s), unless the submission is done electronically with a secure password on the city website;
(2) The complete address of the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling to be removed from the registry;
(3) The date the form was completed; and
(4) A statement that the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling be removed from the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry.
(D) The decision whether to place a residence, house, apartment or other dwelling on the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry shall be solely that of the lawful possessor and occupant thereof, and no official agent or employee of the city shall interfere with said decision.
(E) A residence, house, apartment or other dwelling, after being lawfully placed on the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry shall remain on said registry until the earliest of any of the following:
(1) The city receives notice of removal pursuant to division (C) of this section; or
(2) The city receives notice that the person who submitted the form pursuant to division (B) of this section is not or is no longer a lawful possessor and occupant of the premises.
(F) A copy of the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry and a copy of the Solicitors Do Not Call Registry shall be made available for public inspection at all times on the internet website of the city and during normal business hours at the office of the Director of Public Safety.
(G) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no peddler/solicitor, while peddling and soliciting, shall call upon, knock at the door or ring the doorbell of any residence, house, apartment or other dwelling in the city which is at that time on the Peddlers/Solicitors Do Not Call Registry established and maintained pursuant to this chapter, or upon which there is posted at the entrance a notice which reads “No Peddlers of Solicitors Allowed”, or words of similar import, which clearly prohibit peddlers and solicitors on the premises, unless such peddler has previously been invited upon the premises by the lawful possessor and occupant thereof.
(Ord. 134-06, passed 9-18-2006; Ord. 33-2018, passed 10-15-2018)