A. A person commits a false personation when he falsely represents himself to be a member or representative of any veterans' or public safety personnel organization or a representative of any charitable organization, or when any person exhibits or uses in any manner any decal, badge or insignia of any charitable, public safety personnel or veterans' organization when not authorized to do so by the charitable, public safety personnel or veterans' organization. "Public safety personnel organization" has the meaning ascribed to that term in section 1 of the solicitation for charity act 1
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B. A person commits a false personation when he falsely represents himself or herself to be a veteran in seeking employment or public office. In this subsection, "veteran" means a person who has served in the armed services or reserved forces of the United States.
C. No person shall use the words "Des Plaines police", "Des Plaines police department", "Des Plaines patrol officer", "Des Plaines sergeant", "Des Plaines police commander", "Des Plaines lieutenant", "Des Plaines peace officer", "Des Plaines fire", "Des Plaines fire department", "Des Plaines firefighter", "Des Plaines paramedic", "Des Plaines fire officer", "Des Plaines fireman", or any other words to the same effect in the title of any organization, magazine, or other publication without the express approval of the Des Plaines city council. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the legal name of an organization contains any of the aforesaid words, the legal name may be used, provided that the following disclaimer is made by the organization:
This organization is not affiliated with, nor do receipts go to the direct benefit of, the city of Des Plaines, city departments, or city employees in their official capacity as employees of the city.
D. No person may claim or represent that he is acting on behalf of the police department, fire department or chief of police of the police department, or fire chief of the fire department when soliciting financial contributions or selling or delivering or offering to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships or advertisements unless the city council has first entered into a written agreement with the person or with an organization with which the person is affiliated and the agreement permits the activity.
E. No person, when soliciting financial contributions or selling or delivering or offering to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements within the city, may claim or represent that he or she is representing or acting on behalf of any governmental organization by any name which includes "officer", "peace officer", "police", "law enforcement", "trooper", "sheriff", "deputy", "deputy sheriff", "city police", "paramedic", "fireman", "firefighter", "city fire", or any other word or words which would reasonably be understood to imply that the organization is composed of law enforcement or fire personnel, unless the person is actually representing or acting on behalf of the nongovernmental organization, and the nongovernmental organization is controlled by and governed by a membership and represents a group or association of active duty peace officers, retired peace officers, disabled or injured peace officers, active duty firefighters, firefighter/paramedics, retired firefighters, disabled or injured firefighters, and before commencing the solicitation or the sale or the offers to sell any merchandise, goods, services, memberships or advertisements, a written contract between the soliciting or selling person and the nongovernmental organization has been entered into.
F. No person may solicit financial contributions or sell or deliver or offer to sell or deliver any merchandise, goods, services, memberships, or advertisements on behalf of a police, sheriff, or other law enforcement department or fire department unless that person is actually representing or acting on behalf of the department or governmental organization and has entered into a written contract with the police chief, fire chief, or head of the law enforcement or fire safety department, and the corporate or municipal authority thereof, or the sheriff, which specifies and states clearly and fully the purposes for which the proceeds of the solicitation, contribution or sale will be used. (Ord. M-19-13, 10-7-2013)
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