AGGRESSIVE MANNER: Any of the following:
A. Approaching or speaking to a person, or following a person before, during or after soliciting, asking or begging, if that conduct is intended or is likely to cause a reasonable person to: 1) fear bodily harm to oneself or to another, or damage to or loss of property; or 2) otherwise be intimidated into giving money or other thing of value;
B. Intentionally touching or causing physical contact with another person or an occupied vehicle without that person's consent in the course of soliciting, asking or begging;
C. Intentionally blocking or interfering with the safe or free passage of a pedestrian or vehicle by any means, including unreasonably causing a pedestrian or vehicle operator to take evasive action to avoid physical contact;
D. Using violent or threatening gestures toward a person solicited either before, during or after soliciting, asking or begging;
E. Persisting in closely following or approaching a person, after the person solicited has been solicited and informed the solicitor by words or conduct that such person does not want to be solicited or does not want to give money or any other thing of value to the solicitor; or
F. Using profane, offensive or abusive language which is inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction, either before, during or after solicitation.
AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE: A device, linked to a financial institution's account records, which is able to carry out transactions, including, but not limited to, account transfers, deposits, cash withdrawals, balance inquiries and/or mortgage and loan payments.
AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE FACILITY: The area comprised of one or more automatic teller machines, and any adjacent space which is made available to banking customers after regular business hours.
BANK: Any business establishment authorized to perform one or more of the following services: receive and safeguard money and other valuables; lend money at an interest; execute bills of exchange, such as checks and drafts; purchase and exchange foreign currency; and issue notes of circulation or currency.
CHECK CASHING BUSINESS: Any person duly licensed by the superintendent of banks to engage in the business of cashing checks, drafts or money orders for consideration pursuant to the provisions of the banking laws.
PUBLIC AREA: An area to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to, alleys, bridges, buildings, driveways, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, plazas, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, sidewalks, median, streets and rights of way open to the general public, and the doorways and entrances to buildings and dwellings, and the grounds enclosing them.
SOLICIT, ASK OR BEG: To request, by the spoken, written or printed word, or by other means of communication, an immediate donation or transfer of money or another thing of value from another person, regardless of the solicitor's purpose or intended use of the money or other thing of value, and regardless of whether consideration is offered. (Ord. 21-2013, 4-9-2013)