(A) A person commits an offense if the person engages in solicitation or canvassing activity at a residence:
(1) Before 9:00 a.m.; or
(2) After 7:00 p.m.
(3) On Sundays or federal holidays.
(B) A person commits an offense if the person engages in solicitation activities, canvassing activities, or handbill distribution at a premises with a posted notice that such activity is not welcomed or invited. It shall be presumed that there is notice that solicitation or canvassing activity is not welcomed or invited when there is exhibited in a conspicuous place on or near the main entrance of the premises, a sign, not less than four inches by three inches in size, containing the words “No Solicitors,” “No Trespassing,” or words of similar meaning in letters not less than two-thirds of one inch in height.
(C) A person who is not the owner or tenant of a premises commits an offense if the person removes, defaces or otherwise renders illegible a sign placed by the owner or tenant of the premises pursuant to division (B) of this section.
(D) A person commits an offense if the person engages in solicitation activities, canvassing activities, or handbill distribution and remains or lingers on a premises after being informed by the owner or tenant that they are not welcome.
(E) A person commits an offense if the person engages in solicitation activities, canvassing activities, or handbill distribution in an aggressive or intimidating manner. The term AGGRESSIVE OR INTIMIDATING MANNER means:
(1) Blocking the path of a person who is the object of the activity; or
(2) Following behind, ahead or alongside a person who walks away from the solicitor after being solicited, approached, accosted or offered a handbill, leaflet or any other item.
(F) A person commits an offense if the person engages in solicitation activities, canvassing activities, or handbill distribution and distributes, deposits, places, throws, scatters, or casts a handbill at a residence except by:
(1) Handing or transmitting the handbill directly to the owner or occupant then present in or upon the premises; or
(2) Without using adhesive or tape, placing or depositing the handbill in a manner that secures the handbill and prevents it from being blown away, except that mailboxes may not be used when the use is prohibited by federal postal laws or regulations.
(G) A person commits an offense if the person secures a handbill at a residence in the manner described by division (F)(2) of this section:
(1) In a place that is more than five feet from the front door of the residence; or
(2) When another handbill has already been left or secured at the residence and has not been removed from the outside of the residence.
('68 Code, §§ 21-1, 21-2) (Am. Ord. 09-2021-51, passed 9-14-21) Penalty, see § 116.99