No peddler or solicitor shall:
(A) Peddle or solicit upon a premise in defiance of a posted notice stating, "No Trespassing" or "No Solicitors or Peddlers";
(B) Remove any yard sign, door or entrance sign that gives notice to such person that the resident or occupant does not invite visitors;
(C) Fail to immediately and peacefully depart from a premise when requested to do so by the occupant;
(D) Use or attempt to use any entrance other than the front or main entrance to a dwelling;
(E) Fail to accurately reveal all information contained in the application for peddling/soliciting and all information required to be revealed by state law to any person requesting such information;
(F) Represent that the peddling/soliciting activity approved under this chapter is an endorsement by the village;
(G) Stop for the purposes of selling or offering to sell any products within a distance of 500 feet from any public, private or parochial school building, or the lands on which such school buildings are located in the village on any days during which such school is in session;
(H) Occupy a stationary location on a public street, sidewalk, parkway, park, parking lot or any other public property, which is used by pedestrians or persons operating motor vehicles, unless otherwise approved by the village. A peddler or solicitor shall be presumed to have occupied a stationary location if he or she has conducted business in any such public place for a period in excess of ten minutes;
(I) Use or employ any flashing lights on any vehicle, or any other device for the purpose of attracting attention to any goods, wares or merchandise the peddler or solicitor proposes to sell;
(J) Threaten or harass any person in the course of their activities or in any way engage in conduct that threatens the health and safety of another or causes a nuisance;
(K) No person shall engage in abusive peddling or solicitation. Abusive activity shall include, but not be limited to, one or more of the following while peddling or soliciting or immediately thereafter: coming closer than three feet to the person peddled or solicited unless and until such person indicates he or she wishes to make a purchase or otherwise receive the peddling or solicitation; blocking or impeding the passage of the person being peddled or solicited; repeating peddling or solicitation after the person has indicated his or her objection to the peddling or solicitation; following a person by proceeding behind, ahead or alongside such person after the person has indicated his or her objection; threatening a person with physical harm by word or gesture; abusing a person being peddled or solicited with words which are offensive and inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction; or touching the person being peddled or solicited without consent;
(L) No peddler or solicitor shall request a person being peddled or solicited to retrieve something from inside his or her home which requires him or her to leave the front door;
(M) No peddler or solicitor shall request a person being peddled or solicited to allow him or her to enter the person's residence;
(N) During a parade which proceeds through the village no peddler or solicitor shall sell, peddle, or solicit in the street which is part of the parade route; or
(O) Sell, peddle or solicit on any village block that has demonstrated by a petition signed by 51% of the residents on that block, being submitted to the village, that it is an exempt block.
(Ord. 07192022.1, passed 7-19-2022)