(A) Any person applying for a license to conduct a solicitation of funds, excepting solicitation of funds for a religious cause or purposes, shall make written application therefor to the City Clerk.
(B) No license shall be issued unless authorized by the Clerk upon an application which shall contain the following information:
(1) Name of applicant and the organization he or she represents;
(2) Purposes of the solicitation or purposes of the organization;
(3) Location and address of the general headquarters of the organization and of any headquarters or person through which the organization locally operates;
(4) Names and addresses of the officers of the organization;
(5) Names of the persons having charge of the solicitation and the estimated number of persons who will be directly soliciting funds;
(6) Proposed amount of funds to be raised by the solicitation, and the methods of soliciting or raising the funds proposed; if the organization proposes an on-going solicitation, then only the methods of soliciting funds need be listed;
(7) Percentage of gross collections in the city which will be used to pay solicitors of funds, other solicitation costs and expenses of the local organization, and the amount of percentage of such gross collections which will be paid to the local organization or to the national organization, where applicable, and not directly applied to the purposes of the solicitation. If solicitors are paid a salary or percentage of gross collections, then the number and amount of such salary or percentage shall also be listed. If a set percentage or dollar amount of the amount to be collected will be disbursed or distributed elsewhere than in the city, such percentage or amount shall be estimated and set forth;
(8) The method by which funds raised in the city will be distributed;
(9) The name and address of the local person or officer to whom action on the application by the Clerk and other city correspondence with the organization may be sent; and change in such name or address after issuance of a license shall be filed with the City Clerk, to permit that information to remain as current as practicable; and
(10) Such other and further information as may be required by the Clerk to aid the Clerk in determining whether or not the application shall be approved.
(Ord. B-395, passed 1-18-1983)