(A) Every person desiring to engage in commercial, charitable or religious solicitation as defined in this subchapter from persons in residences, or on sidewalks located in the city, except for a merchant conducting a sale on the sidewalk immediately adjacent to his or her place of business, is hereby required to make written application for a solicitation permit as hereinafter provided, and obtain such permit prior to engaging in solicitation within the city.
(B) Application for solicitation permits shall be made upon a form provided by, and shall be submitted to, the City Clerk, and shall be accompanied by such other documentation as is required herein.
(C) All statements made by the applicant upon the application or in connection therewith shall be under oath.
(D) The City Clerk and the Chief of Police shall cause to be kept in their offices an accurate record of every application received and acted upon, together with all other information and date pertaining thereto, and copies of all solicitation permits issued under the provisions of this subchapter. Applications for permits shall be numbered in consecutive order, as filed, and every permit issued any renewal thereof shall be identified with the duplicate number of the application upon which it was issued.
(E) No solicitation permit permitting door-to-door residential solicitation shall be issued to any person who has been convicted of the commission of a felony under the laws of the state or any other state or federal law of the United States, or misconduct which constitutes a Class A misdemeanor under the state law, within five years of the date of the permit application. No solicitation permit shall be issued to any person who has been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter, nor to any person whose solicitation permit issued hereunder has previously been revoked, as herein provided, for a period of one year from the date of such conviction or revocation.
(Prior Code, § 29-33)