For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABUSIVE SOLICITATION.
To perform one or more of the following acts, either while engaging in solicitation or immediately thereafter:
(1) Coming closer than three feet to the person solicited unless and until the person solicited indicates he or she wishes to make a donation;
(2) Blocking or impeding the passage of the person solicited;
(3) Following the person solicited by proceeding behind, ahead or alongside of him or her after the person solicited declines to make a donation;
(4) Threatening, by word or gesture, the person solicited with physical harm;
(5) Abusing the person solicited with words that are offensive and inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction;
(6) Touching the solicited person without the solicited person's consent; or
(7) Engaging in solicitation activity in any of the prohibited places specified in § 13.03.310.
DONATION.
A gift of money or other item of value, including the purchase of an item for an amount far exceeding its value under circumstances where a reasonable person would understand that the purchase is in substance a gift.
SOLICITATION.
Any request made in person seeking an immediate donation of money or other item of value. A person shall not be deemed to be in the act of solicitation when he or she passively displays a sign or gives any other indication that he or she is seeking donations without addressing his or her solicitation to any specific person, other than in response to an inquiry by that person.
(Ord. 97-003 § 1(part)