Section
100.01 Definitions
100.02 Posting of notice regarding solicitation
100.03 Duty to comply with notices and requests to leave premises
100.04 Solicitation license required
100.05 Registration fee; investigation
100.06 Duty to carry, exhibit license
100.07 Revocation of license; appeals
100.08 Hours of solicitation and exempt activities
100.99 Penalty
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHIEF OF POLICE. the Chief of Police or other police officer designated by the Chief of Police to carry out the Chief’s duties under this chapter.
EXEMPT ACTIVITIES. the door-to-door seeking of donations to, or selling goods on behalf of, not-for-profit corporations and organizations; door-to-door dissemination of political, religious, charitable and other non-commercial information; and door-to-door sale or solicitation of newspaper, magazines, and books.
SOLICITATION. The entry on a private property without a prior appointment with the occupant thereof for the purpose of selling, leasing or obtaining orders for the sale or lease of, goods or services.
SOLICITOR. A person, firm or corporation engaged in solicitation, and includes peddlers, itinerant merchants, and transient vendors of merchandise, as those terms are used in § 11-42-5 of the Illinois Municipal Code, who enter private property without a prior appointment.
(Ord. 11-37, passed 6-28-11)
(A) Every person desiring to secure protection from uninvited solicitation as provided by this chapter shall comply with the directions in this section.
(B) Notice of refusal of invitation to solicitors, to any residence or place of business, may be given in the following manner:
(1) A weatherproof card, not less than three inches by four inches in size, shall be exhibited upon or near the main entrance door to the residence or business, and containing the following words: “NO SOLICITORS”.
(2) The letters shall be at least one-third inch in height. For the purpose of uniformity, the card shall be provided by the Chief of Police to persons requesting the card.
(C) Such card so exhibited shall constitute sufficient notice to any solicitor that the solicitor does not have an invitation to solicit at the premises.
(Ord. 11-37, passed 6-28-11)
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