To protect the people against the nuisance of and incident to the promiscuous distribution of handbills and circulars, particularly commercial handbills, as defined in this chapter, with the resulting detriment and danger to public health and safety, the public interest, convenience and necessity require the regulation thereof, and to that end the purposes of this chapter are specifically declared to be as follows:
A. To protect the people against the unlawful activities or operations of dissolute persons of criminal habits or tendencies, representing themselves as handbill distributors, by regulating the business of handbill and advertising distributors, by regulating the business of handbill and advertising distribution through the imposition of reasonable regulations;
B. To protect local residents against trespassing by canvassers or handbill distributors upon the private property of such 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;
C. 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;
D. To preserve to the people their constitutional right to receive any disseminate information not restricted under the ordinance rules of decency and 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 commercial and noncommercial handbills to all who are willing to receive the same;
E. To accomplish the purposes set forth in this section without restrictions upon the freedom of the press, including the right of bona fide newspapers to engage in the business of printing and publishing a bona fide newspaper.
(Ord. 243 § 2, 1971).