For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLING, BEGGING OR SOLICITATION. Requesting any donation or contribution:
(1) By approaching or speaking to a person in such a manner as would cause a reasonable person to believe that the person is being threatened with either imminent bodily injury or the commission of a criminal act upon the person or another person, or upon property in the person's immediate possession;
(2) Requesting money or something else of value after the person solicited has given a negative response to the initial request;
(3) Blocking, either individually or as part of a group of persons, the passage of a solicited person;
(4) Touching a solicited person without explicit permission;
(5) While under the influence of alcohol or drugs;
(6) By following behind, ahead or alongside a person who walks away after being solicited; or
(7) Engaging in conduct that would reasonably be construed as intended to intimidate, compel or force a solicited person to accede to demands.
BEGGING OR PANHANDLING. For the purposes of this section, the same as soliciting below.
PERSON. Any natural person.
PROHIBITED ROADWAY. It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a right-of-way panhandler or solicitor on State Road 7/US 441, Federal Highway, A1A/Ocean Drive, Hollywood Boulevard, Johnson Street, and Sheridan Street, or within 200 feet from the lateral curb or boundary line of any intersection located on the roadways identified in this subsection.
RIGHT-OF-WAY SOLICITOR. Any person who sells or offers for sale any thing or service of any kind, or who seeks any donation of any kind, or who personally hands to or seeks to transmit by hand or receive by hand any thing or service of any kind, whether or not payment in exchange is required or requested, to any person who operates or occupies a motor vehicle of any kind, which vehicle is engaged in travel on or within any portion of any of the streets or roadways in the city, whether or not such vehicle is temporarily stopped in the travel lanes of the road. The term shall not apply to any person who merely holds or displays a sign lawfully permitted to be displayed by a person as long as there is no entry by such person or sign into any portion of the roadway or its median.
SOLICITING. Any request made in person on a street, sidewalk or public place, asking for an immediate donation of money or other thing of value, including the purchase of an item or service for an amount far exceeding its value, under circumstances where a reasonable person would understand that the transaction or purchase is a donation. Solicitation shall not include passively standing or sitting with a sign or other indication that one is seeking donations without addressing the request to any specific person.
(Ord. O-2014-12, passed 6-18-14)