(A) The City Manager shall issue the permit required by this subchapter, whenever the official shall find the following facts to exist:
(1) All of the statements made in the application are true;
(2) The applicant, or if the applicant is not an individual person, the applicant’s managing officers and managing agents, are of good character and reputation for honesty and integrity, and that all solicitors have proper credentials, showing they are authorized to solicit in the name of the applicant;
(3) The control and supervision of the solicitation will be under responsible and reliable persons;
(4) The applicant has not engaged in any fraudulent transaction or enterprise;
(5) The solicitation will not be a fraud on the public;
(6) The solicitation is prompted solely by a desire to finance the charitable cause described in the application and will not be conducted primarily for private profit;
(7) The cost of raising the funds will be reasonable. Any cost in excess of 25% of the amount collected shall be considered to be unreasonable unless special facts are presented showing to the satisfaction of the City Manager that peculiar reasons make a cost higher than 25% reasonable in the particular case; and
(8) The kind, character and method of the proposed solicitation, the time when it will take place and its duration are such that the solicitation will be in the interest of and not inimical to the safety, convenience or welfare of the inhabitants of the city.
(B) The City Manager shall file in the official’s office for public inspection a written statement of the findings of fact and decisions upon each application. If the application is denied, the City Manager shall notify the applicant by registered or certified mail, at the address given in the application, stating the reasons therefor.
(Prior Code, § 12-130)