No person shall solicit, attempt to solicit, engage in or attempt to engage in solicitation, except in compliance with the following regulations:
(a) Hours of Solicitation in Residential Areas. Except between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. local time, no solicitation shall be conducted in residential areas. Residential areas shall refer to any dwelling unit used and occupied as the personal dwelling unit of the occupants.
(b) Lighting. No person shall use or cause to be employed in soliciting any flashing light from a motor vehicle or any other lighting device for the purpose of attracting attention to the solicitation.
(c) Solicitation Within the Right-of-Way. No solicitation shall be conducted upon nor shall any person in connection with the soliciting activity stand in or upon or otherwise be within, the right-of-way. No provision of this chapter is intended, nor shall it be construed, to authorize or permit the use or attempted use of any such right-of-way or public property owned, maintained or controlled by any public agency of the United States, the State, the County or the Township.
(d) Use of Private Property. Nothing in this chapter is intended, nor shall it be construed, to authorize the use of any private property for any noncommercial soliciting activity, except with the express permission of the owners of such property or any other person lawfully authorized to grant such permission, or as otherwise permitted by law.
(e) Vehicular Stopping or Parking. No soliciting activity shall be conducted at any place or in any manner that may tend to cause or result in motor vehicular traffic stopping, standing or parking within any right of way, unless such stopping, standing or parking is otherwise permitted by law in such location.
(f) Touching of Persons. No noncommercial solicitation shall be conducted in a manner so that any person shall touch the person of another or any property in the immediate physical possession of such other person without expressly requesting and obtaining permission prior thereto.
(g) Inaccurate Representations. No person engaging in solicitation shall misrepresent the cause, purpose or organization on whose behalf monies or other property of value is being solicited.
(h) Remittance of Funds Received. Where funds are solicited on behalf of a cause, organization, candidate or group, such funds shall be remitted to such organization, candidate or group in full and may not be retained for personal use on behalf of the person soliciting.
(Ord. 308. Passed 3-20-95; Ord. Unno. Passed 9-9-02; Ord. Unno. Passed 8-1-05; Ord. 435. Passed 6-26-17.)