No such permit shall be issued to any person who, according to his application is afflicted with any communicable disease or infection or who the investigation made pursuant to this chapter shows is prohibited by this chapter, or by any law of the State of California, or of Congress, from soliciting. A permit to solicit in the city shall expire in one year, and shall be issued by the Chief of Police to each applicant therefor who complies with the provisions of this chapter and is not herein prohibited from having such a permit. Such permit shall specify the activity which it authorizes. No person shall solicit as to anything not so specified. A person who gives false information in his application shall be denied a permit unless the Chief of Police determines such falsification to have been the result of inadvertence, excusable neglect or a lack of understanding. (Ord. 2635 § 2, 1988: Ord. 2488 § 2, 1983: Ord. 2411 § 5 (part), 1982: Ord. 1844 § 2 (part), 1972).