Certain charitable and other organizations have in the past and desire in the future to conduct activities on the streets of the city for the purpose of obtaining charitable contributions from passers-by and said activities have come to be properly known as “Bucket Brigades.”
(A) All bucket brigade collection activities shall be conducted at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 60) and Carol Malone Boulevard (Kentucky 1 & 7) between the hours of 9:00 am and 12:00 noon on designated Saturdays, and no such activities shall be conducted at any other location within the Grayson City Limits at any other times, provided, however if the above designated intersection is blocked or unusable, the City Council, upon request, may designate an alternate location to conduct bucket brigades.
(B) There shall be a total of 18 (eighteen) bucket brigades allowed per year beginning January 1, 2010, and there shall be no more than two (2) bucket brigades in any one month period.
(C) All participants in bucket brigade collection activities must be either non-profit corporations recognized under IRS Section 501(c) (3) or agencies of city government with activities in the Grayson, Kentucky area. Other organizations which are not governmental agencies or Section 501(c) (3) corporations must apply directly to the Grayson City Council at a regularly called meeting to obtain permission to conduct a bucket brigade.
(D) All qualified organizations as identified in subsection (C) shall apply to the Grayson City Clerk, on a form designated by the City Clerk, to obtain permission to conduct a bucket brigade collection activity for a particular date. No organization should normally be allowed more than one date per year, however, if the total number of dates has not been committed by September 1, of each year then the organization may apply for a second bucket brigade in the fall (autumn) of that year.
(E) The number of persons participating in a bucket brigade shall be limited to a total of 8 (eight) persons at any one time with one person on the sidewalks on each corner and 2 (two) persons on North Carol Malone Boulevard and 2 (two) persons on South Carol Malone Boulevard in the median area only.
(F) All persons participating in collection activities in a bucket brigade shall be at least 18 (eighteen) years of age and shall wear distinctive colored vests provided by the City of Grayson. All persons participating in the collection activity of a bucket brigade shall sign a waiver furnished by the Grayson City Clerk and have the waivers delivered to the office of the Grayson City Clerk on or before the Thursday immediately preceding the Saturday bucket brigade. All waivers shall acknowledge the danger of collection activity and shall exonerate and hold harmless the City of Grayson, Kentucky, or any of its officers, agents or employees for injury or death of a person participating in the collection activity. All waivers shall contain a notary certificate substantially as follows:
“Commonwealth of Kentucky )
County of )
Subscribed, sworn, and attested to before me on this day of__________________ 20____, by [Full name of Participant], a person eighteen (18) years of age or older.
[Full name of participant]
My commission expires:
Notary
(G) Each organization conducting a bucket brigade shall provide to every donor a flier, leaflet or other paper containing the name and address of the organization.
(H) The City of Grayson shall provide legible signs between one eighth (1/8) and one fourth (1/4) mile North, South, East and West of the intersection of Main Street and Carol Malone Boulevard alerting the motoring public of the need to execute caution as they are approaching the intersection while the bucket brigade is being conducted
(Ord. 1-2010, passed 1-9-10)