(A) Any solicitor who desires to engage in door-to-door solicitation shall first obtain from the Clerk’s office a non- transferable door-to-door solicitation license permitting such activity by solicitor and/or by solicitor’s employees and agents.
(B) If the solicitor intends to sell or offers to sell any type of food or beverage, the Clerk shall refer the application to the Hamilton County Health Department for review and recommendation. The review shall include an inspection of all refrigeration equipment to be used by the solicitor and shall insure that minimum sanitation requirements established by state and local law are met.
(C) The Clerk's office shall provide to any person, upon request, a door-to-door solicitor application form to be completed by a solicitor and processed by the Police Department. The application shall seek general information about the solicitor, solicitor's business, and the nature of solicitor's proposed door-to-door solicitation. The application shall seek relevant information about the solicitor's company such as: date of incorporation; state of incorporation and if the corporation is formed outside of the State of Indiana, the date on which such corporation was qualified to transact business as a foreign corporation in Indiana. The application shall also require a solicitor to list the name of every employee and agent who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation pursuant to a license issued to the solicitor under this section, and to obtain from the Indiana State Police Department and attach to the application a copy of the limited criminal history of the solicitor and of each employee and agent of same who will be involved in door-to-door solicitation. The application shall require the solicitor to state the name, address, and telephone number of the contact person who will respond to consumer complaints who shall be available for a period of time not less than 60 days following the last date that the solicitor sells or offers goods, wares, merchandise, food, services or subscriptions in the city. All completed applications shall be submitted to the Police Department by the Clerk for review by the Chief of Police, or his designee.
(D) If, while any application is pending, or during the term of any license granted thereon, there is any substantial change in fact, policy, or method that would materially alter the information given in the application, the applicant shall notify the Police Department, in writing, of the change within 72 hours after such change. If the applicant or licensee fails to so notify the Police Department, any license issued to the applicant or solicitor shall be suspended pursuant to a hearing set forth in § 111.13.
(E) A license and a non-transferable identification card shall be issued to a solicitor by the Clerk's office upon such solicitor's completion of an application, confirmation that such solicitor has no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of the application date for a crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft, and/or moral turpitude, and such solicitor has paid a license fee of $15 for a ten-day license or $90 for a 120-day license. Upon receipt of a license, a solicitor must also purchase from the Clerk's office, at the cost of $3 each, non-transferable identification cards for each employee and agent of solicitor listed on solicitor's application and for whom the Chief of Police has confirmed has no felony or misdemeanor conviction within 15 years of solicitor's application date for a crime of dishonesty, fraud, theft, and/or moral turpitude.
(F) The decision as to whether an application is approved or denied shall be made by the Chief of Police within ten days from the date the application is submitted to the Clerk's office for processing.
(G) Solicitor, and each of the solicitor's employees and agents, shall openly display upon his or her person an identification card issued by the Clerk's office whenever engaging in door-to-door solicitation.
(Ord. 11-07-2017-3, passed 11-7-17)