The following persons are not required to obtain a license or pay a license fee, but shall obtain a permit from the Police Division as provided in Section 741.03 except that persons exempt under subsection (d) hereof are required to follow the procedures contained in subsection (f) hereof:
(a) Any person soliciting, peddling or canvassing anything which such person has personally manufactured or produced.
(b) Any farmer, poultryman or horticulturist soliciting, peddling or canvassing his own produce. This exemption applies only to such persons and not to farmers, poultrymen or horticulturists who buy goods for resale, as well as selling their own produce.
(c) Any person soliciting, peddling or canvassing for personal services to be performed by the person so soliciting, peddling or canvassing.
(d) Any person soliciting, peddling, or canvassing or selling tickets for any religious, charitable, school, educational or veterans' organization.
(e) Any peddling of or soliciting or canvassing for the sale of religious or educational publications and books.
(f) Any charitable organization intending to use volunteers serving without compensation to engage in canvassing or soliciting for the purposes of such charitable organization within the City shall apply for a charitable solicitation/canvasser license by filing with the Director of Public Safety an application in writing sworn to by one of its officers or directors on a form to be furnished by the Division of Public Safety, which application shall include the following information:
(1) The name and address of the applicant organization.
(2) A statement that the applicant is a charitable organization as defined in this section together with a brief description of the purposes of the organization and the nature of the goods, property and services to be inspected or sold, or for which orders are to be taken.
(3) The length of time for which the right to engage in canvassing or solicitation is desired.
(4) The name, address and social security number of the person or persons who will be in charge of the volunteer canvassers or solicitors within the City.
(5) The name, address and social security number of the person or persons who will be doing the actual volunteer canvassing or soliciting within the City.
The Director of Public Safety shall promulgate rules and regulations regarding this application process. When the Director of Public Safety is satisfied that the applicant organization is a charitable organization and that it will engage in canvassing or soliciting only for charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, educational, religious or eleemosynary purposes, he shall issue a charitable solicitation/canvasser license to the applicant for the remainder of the calendar year or for any lesser period of time as requested in the application.
Any license issued under the provisions of this section may be revoked by the Director of Public Safety at any time that he determines that the organization or individual is in violation of the terms and conditions of this chapter.
There shall be no fee charged or collected for the solicitation/canvasser license issued to a charitable organization.
(Ord. 1993-080. Passed 4-27-93.)