(A) This section is not intended to in any way hinder, delay, or interfere with legitimate business or organizational activities. This section is to assure that transient merchants, hawkers, peddlers, and solicitors do not use public streets and their direct contact with residents of the city for the illegitimate solicitation practices of harassment, nuisance, theft, deceit, or menacing, troublesome, or unlawful activities.
(B) This section is intended to ferret out and control:
(1) Businesses and organizations using solicitation as a means of concealing unlawful activities;
(2) Businesses and organizations which, though its activities be lawful or even commendable, use such illegitimate practices in solicitation; and
(3) Individual natural persons who, though they represent lawful businesses and organizations, use such illegitimate solicitation practices.
(Ord. 15-2, passed 11-10-2001)