§ 112.35 PERMIT REQUIRED.
   (A)   (1)   It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit or direct anyone to solicit on that person’s behalf within the village, by telephone or in person, for any charitable purpose or charitable organization or for any political purpose or political organization without having first applied for and received from the Village Manager a permit for the solicitation.
      (2)   For the purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
         CHARITABLE PURPOSE or CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. The same meaning as those terms are defined in 225 ILCS 460/1.
         COST OF SOLICITATION. The total amount spent on solicitation, including, without limitation, expenditures for salaries, commissions and employee benefits for solicitors, the cost of any item distributed to persons solicited in connection with the solicitation, advertising and promotions costs and other overhead costs.
          DIRECT CHARGE. The authority to determine the methods that individual solicitors will use in soliciting and accounting for solicited contributions, stop a solicitation or revoke an individual solicitor’s authority to solicit for the applicant
         POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. An organization that expends more than 50% of its budget for political purposes.
         POLITICAL PURPOSE. Any design to influence the policy, actions or staffing of any governmental body.
       PROMOTER. Any person who manages, supervises or organizes a campaign of solicitation.
         SOLICIT or SOLICITATION. Any attempt to obtain a contribution of money or anything of value by any method, including, without limitation, the sale of merchandise or services, or requests for gifts, donations, loans, pledges, advances or promises to pay.
         SOLICITOR. A person who solicits and includes persons who supervise or direct solicitation.
   (B)   It shall be unlawful for any applicant for a permit under this section to knowingly make an untrue statement on the application.
   (C)   It shall be unlawful for any person who solicits for any charitable purpose or charitable organization or for any political purpose or political organization to knowingly mislead any person who the solicitor or the holder of a permit solicits, with respect to:
      (1)   The use of the solicited contribution;
      (2)   The activities and purposes of the organization for which the contribution is solicited; or
      (3)   The cost of solicitation.
   (D)   It shall be unlawful for any individual that solicits by authority of a permit granted pursuant to this section to expend for the individual’s personal use the contributions solicited, except for contributions received in the form of salary, commissions or employee benefits which were fixed before the solicitation began.
   (E)   Subsections(A), (B) and (D) above of this section do not apply to:
      (1)   Solicitation only from people who are on the soliciting organization’s membership list and had consented to be members of the organization before the solicitation began; and
      (2)   Solicitation only on the solicitor’s property and not involving entry onto public streets or sidewalks or other public property or the property of another and not involving solicitation by telephone.
(Ord. 689, passed 1-10-1983)