The purpose of this subchapter is to protect the people against the nuisance of the promiscuous distribution of handbills as herein defined, with the resulting detriment and danger to public health and safety, the public interest, convenience, and necessity require the regulation of handbill solicitation. To that end, the further purposes of this subchapter are specifically declared to be as follows.
(A) To protect local residents against trespassing by solicitors, canvassers, or handbill distributors upon the private property of local residents, if they have given reasonable notice that they do not wish to be solicited by such persons or do not desire to receive handbills or advertising matter.
(B) To protect the people against the health and safety menace and the expense incident to the littering of the streets and public places by the promiscuous and uncontrolled distribution of advertising matter and commercial handbills.
(C) To preserve to the people their constitutional right to receive and disseminate information not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, and public order, by distinguishing between the nuisance created by the promiscuous distribution of advertising and commercial circulars, and the right to deliver noncommercial handbills to all who are willing to receive the same.
(‘83 Code, § 112.35)