No person, association, society or other institution, except the hospitals, veterans' organizations and other groups specified in Section 848.06, shall solicit upon the streets or other public places within the City any gift or donation of money or other property by the sale, distribution, giving away of or use of any tags, flowers or similar devices or by the use of any banks, boxes or other containers or receptacles in which such money, gifts or donations might be deposited.
(1956 Code Sec. 579.09)