5.16.020: DEFINITIONS:
CHIEF: The municipal police chief or his designee, or the chief law enforcement officer authorized to enforce municipal ordinances pursuant to a joint power agreement or his designee.
CLERK: The municipal clerk.
COMMERCIAL: Soliciting for a business purpose which is intended to be for profit and which is not noncommercial.
DRUMMER: A person soliciting commercial orders for goods or services which are to be provided or shipped to the consumer at a later date.
ITINERANT: A person who is a solicitor, and who has no regular place of doing business or soliciting in the municipality, but does not include persons who regularly deliver or provide services or goods over an established route through the municipality.
JUDGE: The municipal judge.
MAYOR: The mayor of the municipality or the mayor's designee.
MUNICIPALITY: The village of Hatch.
NONCOMMERCIAL: Soliciting for any purpose which is intended to be charitable, religious, not for profit, or political.
PEDDLER: A person soliciting commercial orders for goods or services which are to be provided from stocks of goods carried with the peddler or which are services provided by the peddler at the time the order is made.
PERSON: Any person, partnership, corporation or other association or organization.
SOLICITING: All activities of peddlers and drummers attempting to obtain business. Soliciting shall also mean the activities of any person who attempts to obtain a contribution, sales or goods or services, donation of property, or attendance at any meeting or service, for a noncommercial purpose. Such activities for both commercial and noncommercial purposes include, but are not limited to, distribution of handbills or leaflets to the public directly or by placing them in a mailbox, on a doorknob, or otherwise on any property; coming personally onto any property for the purposes set forth in this definition; and calling the occupants of any property by telephone for the purposes set forth in this definition. (Ord. 205 § 2, 1985)