For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them.
APPLICANT. Any person that files an application for a solicitation permit as provided for in this article.
CHARITABLE PURPOSE. Any charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic or eleemosynary purpose under the Illinois Solicitation for Charity Act, 225 ILCS 460/1 et seq.
CHARITABLE SOLICITATION. Solicitation engaged in for a charitable purpose.
ENTITY. A corporation, organization, association, or similar entity of any form on whose behalf one or more individuals engage in solicitation.
FIXED PLACE OF BUSINESS. A business that is properly licensed and operated from a permanent, fixed location in the village.
MANAGER or VILLAGE MANAGER. The Glencoe village manager or his or her appointee or designee.
PERSON. Any individual, organization, group, association, partnership, joint venture, corporation, trust, or any combination of the foregoing.
PREMISES. Any occupied building or structure, or any separate dwelling unit contained within any occupied building or structure, of any type within the village.
SOLICIT or SOLICITING. The act of engaging in solicitation.
SOLICITATION. Engaging in any of the following activities anywhere within the village, other than from a fixed place of business:
(1) Seeking or offering to sell, offering for sale, selling and delivering, peddling, bartering, exchanging, or obtaining, for profit or any kind of consideration any goods or services;
(2) Distribution to the public - by leaving at a store, office, or residence or on any public property anywhere within the village - of any solicitation material;
(3) Asking for or seeking to collect contributions of money, gifts, or goods of any kind for any purpose, except only for a purely political purpose;
(4) Selling tickets;
(5) Seeking to obtain customers for application, purchase of, or enrollment in any public utility service or program; and
(6) Going upon any public property, public street or other right-of-way, or private property within the village for the purpose of engaging in any of the activities described in subsections (1) through (5) of this section;
Religious proselytizing or political canvassing are not defined as solicitation and are not regulated by the provisions of this article.
SOLICITATION MATERIAL. Cards, circulars, handbills, samples, merchandise, newspapers, advertising materials, documents or articles of a commercial nature, and other types of publications, or any other items used in conjunction with solicitation.
SOLICITOR. A person engaged in solicitation.
STREET. The area of a public roadway or right-of-way that is designated for primarily vehicular traffic, including all through lanes, turning lanes, bike lanes, shoulders, medians, roundabouts, and on- or off-ramps. Street does not mean portions of the right-of-way in which vehicular traffic is not permitted, such as the parkway or sidewalk.
(Ord. No. 2002-20-3065; Ord. No. 2018-07-3438)